Author: Michael Ryan Hahn
‎Publisher: Swashbuckle Holdings (August, 2023)
ISBN: ‎ 978-1962089005

They say hell hath no fury like a woman scorned-- and for Pistol Rose, that scorn is long-running and deeply held. Pistol Rose has spent her whole life being spit on and shoved around by the Strelkie, the people of a neighboring city who view her people, the Punimin, as less than them. This is the way of things in the Four Continents of the Known World, and the way it has been for over a hundred years, when these two groups went to war together. 

Every time a child is born in the Strelkie city, they are brought to the border between the city and the outskirts, where the Punimin are forced to live and the destiny of the child is decided based off of the random whims of the nurses that deliver them. This is supposed to create harmony within the city, to unite the Strelkie so that they view their people as one big family. But whether it does or not, it certainly makes the Punimin treasure their family bonds even more. 

Pistol Rose has a large family, and a loud one who all care about each other very much. 

When Rose is only ten years old, she finds the body of her cousin after the girl has hanged herself because she was denied the right to marry her beloved by the Strelkie emissary. That day, Rose vows never to ask for permission to marry and, when she falls in love ten years later, she keeps to this promise by asking her family to help herself and her fiancé run away together.

This is the beginning of Rose's story, and the end involves a battle for the ages. 

A dynamite blast of a novel, and one that I know I will be thinking about for a long time to come, 'Pistol Rose and the Wedding that Sparked a War' by Michael Ryan Hahn is not to be missed if you are looking for an action-packed book with quality writing.

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