Customer Reviews

Ghost Valley (The Last Gunfighter, Book 3)

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The book was good over all but Johnstone has started to depend way too much on flashbacks, which is ok if you haven't read any of the previous books in the series. You end up reading more and more of the old book in the new book

Ghost Valley was a series of flashbacks from previous books. The story line was almost the same as the last book with different names, even the dialog was the same. I have loved all of William Johnstone's books, but could have saved money by skipping this and just rereading Reprisal. Hopefully the next book will have a different plot and characters.

This is a reprint of the previous book in the series - Same plot, same characters, same script and most of the text was lifted from the previous book. Not a book to waste money on.

It is very rare I start a book and not finish it no matter how bad it is but I only read about forty pages of this one. I wish there was some way for Mr. Johnstone to give me my money back. About half the forty pages were flashbacks of previous books. I used to love his Mountain Man Series but I quit reading them because he would spent a big part of the book with pages of what happened in a previous book. Now I will quit reading the Last Gunfighter series. I guess you make as much money doing this and you don't have to think up as many new things to write, just repeat what you have already written. In my openion it is bad for an author with this ability to take advantage of people that do not know these thing until they buy the book. It should be noted on the cover of this and other books he has done: BEWARE--ABOUT HALF OF WHAT YOU READ IS IN A PREVIOUS BOOK!!!!

I love the Last Gunfighter series and the tales of Frank Morgan. However, I agree with the other reviews that this book was a copy of the book before it. My sources tell me that the author possibly wrote this book at the same time that he began chemotherapy, but still the editor should have done his job. My suggestion is to skip this book. Or spend 5 minutes breezing through it in a book store somewhere. Then buy the next book in the series and continue with this series. Don't give up on it cause the next book in the series is one of the best!

this book was for my husband, he is reading the entire series and realy likes them. he is on his 13th book in the series

I agree with the other reviews. I just finished with book 2 (Reprisal) in the series and excitedly started Ghost Valley. I skipped ahead pages at a time because they were literally RIGHT out of book 2. I actually went and looked at the copyright of both books because since they weren't numbered I thought that book 3 had been written first and that since the flashbacks were so interesting that the author flushed them out and then wrote "Reprisal". Nope, that's not the case, they were written one year apart in order.

I'm really not sure why the flashbacks are so long and so frequent. I'm not kidding when I say that in about 15 minutes I was already half done with the book because I kept skipping ahead to the the new parts and not rereading what I had just read in the previous book. The flashbacks didn't just retell the events of the previous book, they were literally word for word, page for page taken out of the previous book, and then after the flashback a small little paragraph telling you that he was remembering these events.

I agree with the others, skip ahead to Book 4 or be prepared to skip through alot of this book. Take an hour or two and get it at the local bookstore and just read the new parts out of the book if you just HAVE to know what happens, or get it at the local library. Not worth the money in invest in.