Why wouldn’t she have told more people about her condition? She was hurt by someone she told her secret to twenty years ago, but that was her significant other. To me, the conflict in the story was a little silly. Still, Carol herself is strong, and it was interesting to watch her character evolve over the course of the novel. At one point Malerman briefly mentions a badass female outlaw, and I hoped beyond hope that she would show up, but alas, she did not. Even Farrah, the housekeeper, is painted as weak and ineffective. Carol herself is well-loved-but we never get to see her demonstrate her lovability. Lafayette is feared and powerful, yet we don’t see her much. However, I found the female characters to be either lacking or not featured enough in the story.
He does a phenomenal job of painting the picture of Harrows, the surrounding towns, and the Trail, and he thoroughly describes the secondary and tertiary characters. That said, the book is very atmospheric, and I appreciate Malerman’s attention to detail. There’s a lot of filler for a story that takes place over a few days. This book starts off with a fire, but it sizzles a little in the middle. Her husband, Dwight, is the only person alive who is aware of her condition. Her only friend and confidant, John Bowie, passes away at the beginning of this book, inciting the events that follow. During this time her heart barely beats, she scarcely breathes, but she can hear everything that happens around her. She occasionally falls into a deep coma–one from which she cannot be awakened-for days at a time. Carol suffers from a unique medical (or magical) condition. Carol Evers is a well-liked woman who is married to a not-so-well-liked man in the Wild West town of Harrows.
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