Title: An uneven mix of humor and violence
Review: The West of Bowen's Yellowstone Kelly is an odd mix of brutal violence and laugh out loud humor. This combination can occasionally work well; some authors have a knack for combining these two things into a fascinating work, but the balance is off here. There are outrageous events to be sure, battling paleontologists, a drunken blowhard of a Buffalo Bill, and of course that staple of western fiction, the Arabian prince and his harem. With this set up there are bound to be a few good laughs, but strewn throughout are also vicious killings that become discordant after awhile, not so much moving the plot along, rather they seem to be there to remind the reader that the West was a brutal place. It just doesn't mesh together well, and for me it was just too much of a bad thing spoiling a decent number of good laughs.
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