The Sisters Brothers – Patrick deWitt
You should read this book. Seriously. This book is freaking fantastic. To be completely honest, I finished reading this book about 10 months ago and the only thing I can remember is how much I liked it. This is the story of two brothers who are hired guns in the Wild West and it is pretty much exactly what you think. Lots of gun play, lots of tension, lots of horses. What makes this story different, however, is that one of the brothers is having an internal conflict and is
My favorite part of this book is the amount of snarky-ness in it. I grew up watching Clint Eastwood westerns and was really expecting this book to be that kind of dry, serious, very tense read. However, there were more than a few times that I laughed out loud at a line or situation. The humor did a good job of breaking the tension that slowly builds as the story progresses. The relationship between the brothers is crafted tremendously well. I usually have a fear when a story has two strong lead characters that it will be hard to follow or that I will have a problem being immersed in the story because the characters seem to be trying to one-up each other. This was not the case in this story. I found that each brother had a strong, but different personality. One was definitely the protagonist of the story and I found that wonderfully helpful when it came to following the plot of the novel. The two characters felt like brothers in the way they bantered and picked on each other and I found this aspect of the novel to be the most well-crafted.
The part of the book I liked the least is a bit difficult to explain without going into spoilers. But, in general, there's a part in the book that delves into chemical science. I just didn't find that aspect of the story at all believable. Now, I didn't bother to do any research and investigate if that sort of technology would have actually been available back then so I can't say if it is factually inaccurate. But what I can say is that it sort of abruptly appears in the story and I found that it didn't quite fit in the world that deWitt had created. I feel like it fit in the plot alright. I understood why it was there and there needed to be some sort of extra stuff revealed toward the end, but I'm not sure if the chemical stuff was the right choice.
The Sisters Brothers – Patrick deWitt
A fun, a-typical, Western full of adventure, gun play, and snark.
325 pages
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