★★★★★ | Literary Fiction | Digital | Borrow | StoryGraph
This review contains *spoilers*.
This was a violent and surprisingly readable page-turner. I was shocked when a main character was killed off in the middle of a chapter, almost as an afterthought. Life is fleeting and meaningless seems to be the central theme here.
I worried over Sheriff Bell the whole book, that he was going to be killed himself. He survived, but maybe not his home or lovely wife? There’s a twist in the end that goes unexplained. Makes you think.
Favorite Highlights
He hung the phone up and sat looking at it. It’s money, he said. You have enough money you dont have to talk to people about cats in trees.
You see somebody ever day sometimes for years and then one day you walk that man down the hallway and put him to death. Well. That’ll take some of the cackle out of just about anybody. I dont care who it is.
It takes very little to govern good people. Very little. And bad people cant be governed at all. Or if they could I never heard of it.
You dont start over. That’s what it’s about. Ever step you take is forever. You cant make it go away. None of it.