A supernatural western, what could be better

Enjoyed this book, has you rooting for the good and knowing/hoping the bad get their due. Great fun

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Very good.

I enjoyed the story greatly. If you like the weird west this one is for you.

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Quite possibly the best title on Audible!

My words fail to describe just how good this title is. The story is engaging, the actors performances are all of the highest quality and makes the characters really come alive and none of the sound effects feel silly or out of place.

This isn’t just an audiobook, this right here is an experience. An adventure. A journey. So take it from me, you do not want to miss this!

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Fantastic.

I've been into the full cast presentations ever since you folks were gracious enough to introduce me to Locke and Key by my man Joe Hill. Then it was the beautiful Sandman series by the peerless Neil Gaiman, and the Swords Trilogy-Chronicles of Corum by Michael Moorcock, whose work I've loved since I was a kid. Now I get this awesome combination of the King Gunslinger series, the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Unforgiven-style and H.P. Lovecraft. In a word, WOW. The vocal performances are spot-on, and every actor is perfect in their role. The effects are authentic and chilling, and I felt the town of Golgotha around me as a living entity full of disparate, unusual and fascinating characters on multiple sides of a killer narrative by R.S. Belcher. One of the greatest joys in my life is the discovery of a new favorite author. That happens to me a lot here...Grady Hendrix, Laird Barron, to name a few, and now sai Belcher joins the ka-tet. This one's a fun little ride across a wild weird Western landscape, and after listening to it for just under an hour, I bought extra credits to get the entire series of performances. It's that cool. Anyway, happy trails, and long days and pleasant nights. Highly recommended, fellow gunslingers.

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Great Performance. Ok Story

The performance was exceptional by the entire cast. I found the story a bit slow and cumbersome at times. If you like the weird west, there are better books out there like the Deadlands series but overall, a pretty solid listen.

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Great Weird Western

I have never heard or read anything by R.S. Belcher before this. I loved it. I am a fan of Weird Westerns and this was great. I do enjoy full cast productions, specifically by Graphic Audio. This production was better than most. I will definitely stick with this to finish out the series. I'm glad I found this one.

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Fantastic audio drama

SIX-GUN TAROT is a book that I wished I'd written, which is one of those praises that only writers get to throw out or would-be writers (or anybody) but it still has a lot of meaning. Basically, it has everything I love in a novel from the Wild West to monsters to antiheroes to the Cthulhu Mythos (but set up against supernaturals of Heaven and Hell). They even manage to put some nice social commentary in the book about race relations and homophobia.

The premise of the book is that a boy named Jim is attempting to cross the 40 Mile Desert a.k.a. Lahontan Valley, Nevada. It is a somewhat suicidal action for a boy with just a horse and no supplies but he manages to survive thanks to the efforts of Mutt, a Native American Deputy for the town of Golgotha. From there, he becomes embroiled in a billion-year-old conflict between God, the Devil, and a primordial evil drawing inspired from the writings of H.P. Lovecraft.

I like the town of Golgotha because it is basically a 19th century version of Sunnydale, California. There's angels, demons, mad scientists, evil cults, demigods, shapechangers, and a partridge in a pear tree. I'm very much of a fond of fantasy kitchen sink settings (thank you, TV tropes) and I suspect it may be do to the fact that I'm a huge superhero fiction fan. Golgotha is very deliberately ridiculously over the top and is all the more fun for it.

The book makes the wise decision of not focusing on any specific single character but making the book an ensemble piece. If you don't like one or two of the characters, you're bound to like others. The protagonists are also archetypal but fairly deep and the author is not afraid to give them flaws either. Sometimes flaws that make you believe they aren't good people at all. That doesn't make them boring, though, and that is a much better thing for a reader.

Mayor Pratt, for example, is a Mormon with supernatural responsibilities and the struggle of being a closeted gay man in the 19th century. However, Pratt is terrible to his youngest wife and also racist against Native Americans. Maud's grandmother was a protector of women and supernatural heroine but she also ended up a plantation owner, which makes a lot of her dialogue about freedom and justice ring hollow. The book doesn't revel in the racism and sexism of the period but it also acknowledges it exists and that is the best way to handle Western fiction in modern times.

The book perhaps takes on a little more than it can chew. Parts of the book deal with the War against the Dark at the beginning of the universe, the Fall of Lucifer, and other things that distract from the quirky little town that is the most interesting part of the book. While I appreciate the ambition, I tended to prefer the supernatural plots that were grounded in reality. Whether revenge murders, loveless marriages, racism, and mourning the loss of their recently departed spouse.

In conclusion, I think this was a very solid work and is probably my second or third favorite read of the year. It's a nice mixture of fantasy, horror, and the Wild West. The characters are fun and the world is set up for what I hope will be a fairly long series. I really enjoyed the narration, character acting, sound effects, and more. This is much better than the regular audiobook.

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Best cast ever

This book was different from all othe Graphic audio it was great performances by all the characters just awesome

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voice acting

The voice acting and sound effects really put you into the story. I'd never listened to a weird west novel before and this was a good time!

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Broke Back Clown Show

Started out interesting, went down form there. When it got to the super ninja, witch, goddesses constantly complaining about how dumb men keep them down, even though they are super ninja, witch, goddesses, the fast forwarding started. Then they added a Mormon gay guy cheating on his multiple wives. Kinda funny. Then the gay guy enters his most holy place still smeared with his boy’s waste, not so holy it seems. Kept listening hoping the AntiWhite virtue signaling would end, and it just got worse. Then the story failed. Throw in a girl violated by tentacles. I should have known how bad it would get when the coyote tricksters sounded like hood rats. I see why this was free. I usually finish all audio books, not this one. Good idea, tainted with modern degeneracy.

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