The Sisters Brothers

This just never came together for me. Two brothers, Eli and Charlie Sisters, are sent on a mission by the Commodore to kill a man for reasons unstated. The story, ostensibly, follows the brothers as they track the man down, but the actual plot is broken up into small short little vignettes of the brothers as they get into wacky hijinks along the way.

The problem with this is that none of the stuff that happens throughout the book really has any bearing on the end or how they get there. Some of it is amusing in a way, but a lot just left me feeling a little impatient to get on with things. I was never really drawn into the Sisters brothers' quest to kill this man that needed killing, and the characters themselves, despite feeling like there should have been some sort of growth or change, never really went anywhere. I actually read too much into the story from the beginning, and was disappointed to read that things were played straight without too much deviation or plot twists.

I read it. It was a book. I'm done now.