The sisters brothers - Patrick deWitt

We say: **

I have to say, what i liked the most about this book was the cover in its shiny, graphic gloriousness. And as the saying goes, it didn't live up to expectations.

The sisters brothers, contract killers on a job to California in the Gold Rush, live a series of misadventures meeting all sorts of unsavoury characters that read like a spaghetti western. One brother is short tempered, a drinker and kills anyone and anything in his sight while the other one muses about most people and things he sees, goes on a diet, falls in love and is generally a bit of a thick pain in the ass.

Seen some comparisons with Don Quixote which i can almost understand if you take a dark, Shoreditch style lens to it.
Actually, I reckon this is a bloke's book with its short sentences, single line story and no depth of characterisation.

Moving on.....