In the Rogue Blood

I think the author did an apt job of painting a picture of the roughness of life for some in the 1840s. The underlying story and setting is well done.

That being said, I didn't like it.

I really did not like and could not care about any of the characters in this story. Every woman is a whore and every man is a quick-tempered jerk.

I realize that the writer is depicting a world in which nuance is hard to find, but still. It read like a very gory, sick, twisted children's book or something. Two boys go on an adventure in a nightmare western world.

On top of that the continuous narrow death escapes started to grate at a certain point.