![]() But the author did manage to make me really like and care about some of them anyway. I was shown the bad that was in them, I was shown the good, and I was allowed to make my own opinions or to simply read this story about them without worrying about good or bad. And that was what made me enjoy reading about them, even if I didn’t quite like all of them as people or didn’t agree with some of their actions. They knew what their priorities were, they knew what kind of people they were, and they were unapologetic about it. These characters, they were thieves, con artists, killers. Just sayin’.Īnd all the other main characters? They were just as bad, if not worse. So it was kind of self-defense, but you don’t learn how to toss a knife in the air so that it lands perfectly in someone’s eye without practice, and you don’t do it all without hesitation unless you’ve done it before. ![]() ![]() Within the first chapter, our protagonist, Winslow, slit a man’s nostrils and put a knife through his eye without hesitation when the man insulted his hippo and then tried to attack him. You know how some books constantly tell you how awful a character is, and said character constantly broods about how awful they are, but then the character never actually does anything awful? *I received an ecopy of this book via NetGalley. ![]()
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