Beautiful story about self-sacrificing love and redemption. It was emotional, endearing and hopeful. I loved how the story looked at an outlaw, or villain, and painted him into a real-life, relatable character that you ended up wanting to root for despite his past. It blended the original story of Butch Cassidy and the dichotomy that was underlying in history - villain, yes, massive flaws and bad choices, of course, but also with a compassionate and some Robin Hood-like behavior that made him more understandable. His emotion and Jane’s were very well conveyed and written. 

I loved how Amy was able to translate so well that often our choices and reasoning and love are more grey than black and white. Good and bad are often less clear than we want them to be and people are complicated. It made Noble/Butch feel relatable and genuine. It allows for redemption and forgiveness instead of judgement and vengeance. 

While a lot of the real Butch Cassidy remains a mystery, more and more sources are showing he likely didn’t die as one of the men in that shoot out, which allows for the what-ifs. In some ways, I wish the main chat in the book was a generic outlaw rather than a blending of fact and fiction so my brain didn’t keep warring with that, but the story Amy paints was beautiful nonetheless and I thoroughly enjoyed it. 

Thanks to Netgalley for an advanced copy of this book. All opinions are mine.