I've enjoyed many of Amy Harmon's novels. A couple are favorites. This one ... I struggled with a bit. It wasn't bad, I just wasn't feeling pulled into the story, the characters. I liked how it wrapped up though, and the author's notes (although listening to the audio ... I really wish the author would give the author's notes rather than the narrator we already heard tell the story. It would be so much more personal). I think my reflecting on the book is more favorable than while I was in it. 

3rd person/Past tense. Omniscient narrator, so we got to see/feel the POVs of several different characters. 

Of course I've heard of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, but that's about it ... just that they were outlaws/cowboy types.  It was interesting to have UTAH so represented. I guess "Butch" was born and grew up here (I'm in Utah, it's something I note). Sometimes I really like that personal connection, here, it seemed too much. Then there was the talk of Mormonism (Jack Mormon), interesting.

Butch Cassidy wasn't our MC's real name. That was Robert Leroy Parker. Sometimes in the book he was referred to as Robert, other times Robert Leroy, other times Parker, then of course Butch Cassidy ... and then, Noble Salt. I have to admit it was a bit hard to follow for sure at times, and all the name switching got a little annoying.

Van, Van, Van ... I really just wanted to SLAP Van so many times! I guess that's good, if a book can draw out that type of emotion. 

There were a couple "reveals" ... of which I totally could see coming. 

TOC - I'm a Table of Contents gal. I had both the audio and the Kindle copy (KU - read and listen). In Audible, the Chapters included the little "header/quote" ... but I would have found it more helpful to have the dates listed (Preface - November 1908, Chapter 1 - September 1900, Chapter 3 - February 1901, Chapter 5 - July 1 1907 ...) I guess not every chapter had a date listed, but during a read/listen, I don't always register the date, how important is the date, is there going to be a test? Should I memorize it? I like just being able to glance at the TOC and see (does the timeline stay chronological or jump around, how much time passes?) Chapter 27 - July 1907 ... (most of the story took place in 1907).

One of the words I note - Carnegie. In audio, I note its pronunciation. Here, it was inconsistent, and said both ways (the traditional "Car-nu-gee" when talking of Carnegie Hall or library ... the "correct" way "Car-NEG-ee" when speaking of the man himself. Although once it seemed to also say Car-NEG-ee Hall, so ... 

Another word - Haiku (a "poem game" the characters played) ... it was pronounce H-Oh-coo (long O instead of long I). Until I shifted to the Kindle version for a bit, I didn't realize it had an alternate spelling here too ... hokku. Said "just" fourteen times, but it felt like a lot. 

Dais, smirk, scowl, roil - other words I note.
No proFanity though. Some sex, nothing explicit, but not closed door either. It felt off to me, I don't know if it's because I'm usually reading from the woman's POV?

I don't  know if I just never really connected with the Butch/Noble character, or if it was the narration (the few times I shifted to reading, was perhaps better? But I don't have much eye time, lots of ear time). 

While there were the couple of characters (Butch and Sundance) ... this doesn't even fit into my "not-nonfiction but based on true events" because while some of the Butch/Sundance basics were based on actual information ... all the other characters and happenings were all invented by the author. Just basic historical fiction with a couple recognizable names.