They All Fall the Same By Wes Browne
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The picture of They All Fall the Same needs to come up Morally compromised protagonists and relentless revenge all while understanding that greed and money are the top of the pecking order so that business can be productive. They all fall apart song All is fine if everyone stays in their lane Burl Spoon s daughter overdoses and dies on fentanyl in the presence of those attached to Clovis Begley Everyone wants to be the last man standing and nothing will stand in their way Immersive and authentic come to mind when thinking about this novel Especially being from Kentucky There is not a location talked about in this book that I haven t been close to myself The problems that these two families experience are raw.
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Penguin Random House and NetGalley for the opportunity to read this in advance English Marijuana kingpin Burl Spoon VS Heroin kingpin Clovis BegleyWhen Burls daughter overdoses on fentanyl laced heroin there s only one thing left to do Make the Begley family pay for everything they ve taken from the Spoons As these two hot heads come to a head trying to fight grief with grief eye for an eye It s the pull of Burls granddaughter that causes everyone to fall. They all fall apart song When I tell you while I was reading this book I couldn t decide what family I was rooting for All I know is I was rooting for every single pup and Chelsea This book is set in relatively present time 2020.
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Thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for this eARC. They all fall apart song In the rolling hills of Kentucky where secrets are buried as deep as the roots of ancient oaks organized crime boss Burl Spoon reigns supreme His empire thrives on money power and a ruthless code of loyalty But when tragedy strikes his family the very foundation of his criminal dynasty begins to crumble. They all fall apart song Wes Browne s noir thriller They All Fall the Same plunges readers into a world of blood feuds vendettas and desperate alliances Burl Spoon s daughter succumbs to a heroin overdose and an employee is brutally murdered The catalyst for revenge is set in motion pitting Burl against the Begley family a rival clan entrenched in the heroin trade. They all fall apart song Burl s character is a symphony of contradictions a ruthless kingpin with a soft spot for his granddaughter Chelsea As he seeks vengeance he grapples with redemption torn between protecting his legacy and saving what remains of his fractured family. They all fall apart song Browne s prose is a shotgun blast of raw authenticity He paints the Kentucky landscape with the same reverence as the blood soaked history that stains its soil The Hatfields and McCoys would feel right at home in this tale of warring crime families where bullets fly secrets fester and allegiances shift like shadows. They all fall apart song If you crave gritty character driven noir with a Southern Gothic twist They All Fall the Same delivers English They All Fall the Same is an impressive novel very much in the vein of David Joy and Eli Cranor What struck me with Browne s writing is the crispness of his prose in a genre that s apt to lean on tired phrases and clich The story itself grabbed a hold of me from page one and I was blazing through the pages to see what madness Burl Spoon would do next I love a good tale of revenge and this one delivered at the highest level Thank you to Crooked Lane Books for an early look at this fantastic Southern noir English Thank you to Netgalley for this Advance Copy They All Fall the Same started a little tough for me it sort of has that no good guys here trope however somehow despite this I found the pacing pick up quickly and it was really smooth read The vibes are akin to Mystic River a violent tragic and confronting sort of story which leaves you guessing at every moment. They all fall apart song An interesting side note is that the emergence of Covid 19 is included in this story the lockdown and use of face masks adding to some of the intrigue of how this crime family vs crime family drama was going to play out Despite me saying no good guys the truth is the goodness of this story is around the edges so to speak Our MC Burl Spoon isn t even close to redeemable and neither are his adversaries yet in the mix are the innocent and semi innocent bystanders including the wider Spoon family They All Fall the Same provides an unusual expression of the excitement and drama of a deadly organized crime war while still showing the collateral and direct damage and horror of such an event While this might not be considered high literature exactly there was something interesting and meaningful about how this novel plays out highly recommended English I m a big fan of Wesley Browne s Hillbilly Hustle 2020 maybe my favorite pandemic read When I learned that novel s antagonist Burl Spoon would be the central character of Browne s next novel I thought How s that gonna work Spoon is a scary and unlikable character in HH at least he was for me so I was curious how he could carry a story that I could like Well it works They All Fall the Same works By means mostly to do with three new female characters Spoon s daughter DeeDee his mistress Whitney and especially his granddaughter Chelsea Browne tenderizes Spoon and humanizes him He s still violent and surrounded by violence He s still even largely despicable But we see him learn from mistakes significant mistakes and grow into a character with whom we can empathize maybe even like a little bit They All Fall the Same is an action packed well paced romp through Kentucky from Harlan to Louisville with a brief side trip into Tennessee A strong second outing for novelist Wesley Browne. They all fall apart song Thanks to the author via NetGalley for the advance copy English It only took reading a few lines from Wes Browne s They All Fall The Same Way to know I was in store for a pleasurable Southern Noir experience Upon finishing the novel my assumption was proven to be quite correct. They all fall apart song Browne has woven together a crime tale describing a battle between competing forces with wonderfully crafted sentences capturing a sense of time place and circumstance while easily moving to my list of top novels of 2024 In Jackson County Kentucky for over three decades things have mostly gone well for cannabis mogul Burl Spoon however lately troubles originating along the domestic side of his empire seem to be trouble than issues on the crime side Clovis Begley is similar in ways to Burl but at the same time is vastly different He too is in the illegal drug business but mostly deals in the harsher types of drugs and possesses a greater taste for outright brutality. They all fall apart song Soon due to unusual circumstances the worlds of Burl Spoon and Clovis Begley not only encroach upon each other but collide in seemingly never ending carnage where many dead will be left behind in the remaining ash and rubble. They all fall apart song To me other than the wonderfully worded novel what drew me to They All Fall The Same Way was how Browne has written a novel full of nasty characters where their introduction does not automatically cause the reader to viscerally dislike the villainous characters in a novel While it does not cause any of them to be admired or seen favorably what it does do is allow the reader to complete the novel and not ask oneself when finished why hours were wasted spent on a novel full of rotten characters Browne is even able to somewhat humanize Burl Spoon and one other villain purposely weaponized for carnage One way Browne does this is by producing one dimensional characters beyond that of merely villainous people and adding at least some aspect of humanity to their character that tends to sprinkle a dusting of sympathy Another way was how when it came to the introduction of villains in this novel Browne was able to create and flush them out in a progressive manner where each was disturbing than the previously introduced one. They all fall apart song They All Fall the Same Way is set to be published in January 2025 and is highly recommended to readers of Southern Noir Rural Noir with wonderfully developed characters Netgalley provided an ARC for the promise of a fair and unbiased review This review was originally published at MysteryandSuspense. They all fall apart song com English
They All Fall the Same By Wes Browne |
1639109102 |
9781639109104 |
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304 |
Hardcover |