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There is some truly excellent, spare writing in this back country mystery, and some truly indelible images. David Joy tells a brutal story so beautifully that sometimes you forget you're reading a story about drug-dealing murderers (until someone gets acid poured on their face, or the guns come out). The violence and drug use that permeates the story are simply a way of life for Jacob McNeely, told unflinchingly, and it's only in glimpses that Jacob's humanity comes out--first a little bit, then
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Beautifully written and, for that reason, a pleasure to read. But the main character's observations about his life were often too apt by half, and it was almost impossible to believe that the love interest would be drawn to him at all, particularly in the context in which their reunion takes place. Those character elements pushed me out of the story frustratingly often. (It's not you, book, it's me.)
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