It was a very interesting story with a lot of ranching details in it, but there were a few things that just didn't fit for me, the bullwhip, and the fist-fucking, and both of them didnt work for me due to what I thought were believability issues - it was clear that the author didn't do much research into either - bullwhips do a whole lot more damage than the story indicates they do, and fist penetration is a whole lot more difficult. By the time I got to the second topic was when I called it a day.