The book starts off a little slow; I was confused with where the story was going for the first 50-or-so pages (I’m impatient lol) until the story picks up and the action starts. I enjoyed the dual perspective between Antonio Sorono in the late 1890s and his grandson in the 1960s. The story follows Antonio Sorono as he sets off to Texas to make money to save his family from poverty and runs into A LOT of trouble along the way. Finding out what the Bullet Swallower meant was….fascinating and horrifying at the same time. Antonio’s grandson, Jamie, unravels his family history and finds some interesting facts and stories about his family that his father has kept secret.

The Bullet Swallower is an action-packed story