Have you ever wanted to know what contract killers feel like while doing their job? Have you ever wanted to know how contract killers lived in 1850s? Well, then this book is just for you! The Sisters Brothers is a book written by Patrick DeWitt. It doesn't seem like he could possibly experience the same time as his main characters from this book because he was born in 1975. But that is ok because he is also a historical writer. But let's get down to the actual plot and my excuses on why I read books about contract killers.
The setting takes place in USA in 1851. The book has a first-person narrator. The main characters are Eli and Charlie Sisters. They are brothers but their second name is Sister. The Sisters Brothers. They work as contract killers for a man called Commodore. That man is rich and dangerous. Whoever he doesn't like, he just asks the Sisters Brothers to kill him. This time it was Kermit Warm. Commodore asked them to steal the formula.
In the book we go through the adventures of the Brothers. It is interesting to read something like that about contract killers. If we put aside their job I would even say they were quite as human as us and wanted the same things. Patrick DeWitt really showed us the other side of killers. That is a bit more likable than the other one. But that is just my opinion.
Also let me tell you about the Brothers' relationship. Eli is the one who is also the first-person narrator. He tells us about their life and we come to see how he realizes that he doesn't want to be a contract killer. I could sometimes relate to awkward situations he got in. Nobody laughs at my jokes either, haha. Charlie, Eli's brother, is a bit more efficient and talented contract killer. He doesn't know how to stop being a contract killer and more importantly, he doesn't want to stop. They are very different from each other but they still feel some kind of affection towards each other despite their job.
This is a quite interesting book but it is still not as good as Home for Unwanted Girls or Moby-Dick or the Whale. I would give it 7 out of 10. It does make you look at things differently but it doesn't make you restless and desperate on how it will end.