The narrative switches from present chase to Wyatt's life with Lucy, slowly revealing the twisted circumstances that have lead him to this unimaginable situation. The twins lived a symbiotic life, where they believed themselves to be one person, a person that was crudely torn apart by the death of their father, from which Lucy has become a phantom limb. She is raw, fetid. Wyatt and Lucy cannot heal from this event, which forced their loneliness and isolation to form and their illusions of who they were and their life together to crumble. The girl, with no name and a mysterious and mythical past, is strong, angry, violent and pushes Wyatt passed his own perceptions of who he is and what he is capable of becoming. She seems to be the darkness within him become real, forcing him to see truths he has been hiding from himself for years. She speaks of fate and life and the needs of men to believe her to be an animal, a beast, a killer not of this world. There were some moments where I felt the metaphors and similes were too much, too forced. Trying to create an unnecessary image in an already vivid portrait. However, the rest of the writing propels the reader forward, through sand and heat and dehydration. I am not usually a fan of westerns and gun fights, but this eerie take on the brutality of farm life and, in juxtaposition, the brutality of the criminal drug world, was so enthralling and terrifyingly realistic. No one comes out unclean, everyone is expendable, the only thing that matters is survival.
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