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The River We Remember by William Kent Krueger

9 reviews

greatestheights's review

dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Alcoholism, Death, Racial slurs, Violence, Incest, Grief, Hate crime, Murder, Racism, and Child abuse

Moderate: War and Suicide attempt

emily_y's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Incest, Racism, and Rape

Minor: Infidelity, Alcohol, Suicide attempt, and Colonisation

killerpancake's review against another edition

emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

I really like WKK’s books and this one was good but not my favorite. There’s no big dramatic reason either, it just didn’t grab me as much as the last one I read. The mystery was probably the least interesting part of the book and the focus on the town and characters was lovingly done. It also addresses some dark topics that are portrayed with care. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Xenophobia, Racism, Incest, and Child abuse

Moderate: Pedophilia, Physical abuse, and Rape

Minor: Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Child death, and Suicide attempt

amandalachelle's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Grief, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Animal death, Sexual content, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Hate crime, Alcohol, Fire/Fire injury, Infertility, Infidelity, Murder, Rape, Suicide attempt, Terminal illness, Incest, Torture, Sexual violence, Pedophilia, Racism, Sexual assault, Animal cruelty, Blood, Death, Gun violence, Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Cancer, Chronic illness, Suicide, and War

shawnna_reads2's review against another edition

mysterious sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Violence, Chronic illness, Gun violence, Child abuse, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, and Sexual assault

laheath's review

emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Tragic story of murder in a small town with beautifully written descriptions, flawed characters, and subplots that don't detract from the main plot.  The unfortunate prejudice of post-WWII Americans is prevalent.  There were so many characters battling their own demons, but they were easy to keep track of since they were so interesting.  A tense mystery with several twists.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Alcohol, Racism, Sexual violence, and Death

Minor: Suicide attempt, Infidelity, Terminal illness, Rape, Incest, and War

brittonmc1221's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Hate crime, Domestic abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual violence, Animal cruelty, Child abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Colonisation, Gun violence, Terminal illness, War, Murder, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, and Suicide attempt

okiecozyreader's review

adventurous emotional mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.0

I enjoyed this mystery by well-loved author William Kent Krueger. At the beginning of the novel in 1958, Jimmy Quinn is found dead in the lake. He was not liked by his community. In my mind I picture him as a big bully type of a man, who didn’t treat people well. A Native American war veteran is quickly accused of murdering him. He is assigned a female lawyer. He doesn’t want to make a claim of guilt or innocence, but she can sense he isn’t guilty, so she takes on the case, knowing/learning very little from him or his wife.

The audio narration is nice to listen to, but it is all a man’s voice, even when the female lawyer is talking. I had to remind myself who was speaking, but it was still manageable for me.

My least favorite thing about WKK novels is that I feel they all have unnecessary deaths, almost like he doesn’t take murder very seriously. I don’t know why I feel that way about his portraits of the American northwest, but I feel that in all 3 of his books that I’ve read.

But he is another great storyteller and it is beautifully written, like the others.

“Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.” BUDDHA

“He was a powerful man, but he had no power over me. In his heart, he was small and afraid, and I knew that, and he understood that I knew.” Ch 24

“It’s in their blood, you know. There’s a reason they’re called savages.” Track 33 (Native Americans)

“ he probably was a handsome man. And there was probably good in him as well. Maybe if you lived with him day in and day out, if you lived with anyone that way, you eventually saw that good was there, no matter how small a measure that might be.” Ch 38

“The gift is like this star at the center of the cottonwood. It’s inside you now. Someday, when you need it, it will come out, like the stars when the wind shakes the cottonwood trees, and it will shine for you, well and truly.” Ch 41

“Although she had never been a beauty, she’d finally learned to see what was beautiful about her, and she’d tried to look at other people with the same forgiving eye, and this had made a vast difference in how she embraced what life offered her.” Ch 46

“There are moments that stay with you forever and the details are burned into your memory as if etched with acid.” Ch 50

“These weren’t bad people. They simply didn’t forgive easily. In Charlie’s experience with human beings, that was the rule, not the exception.” Ch 53

“… wife was resilient, because that’s what a woman had to be to survive.” Ch 53

“Because we are only one part of the whole, the river each one of us remembers is different, and there are many versions of the stories we tell about the past. In all of them there is truth, and in all of them a good deal of innocent misremembering.” Ch 60

Thanks to libro.fm for providing audio copies to librarians. Loved discussing this book with #bookfriendsbookclub

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape, Alcohol, Sexual assault, Violence, and Racism

Minor: Suicide attempt

platypus1's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

Another excellent yet difficult read by Krueger
The racial slurs although true to the times where difficult to read 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Alcohol, Suicide attempt, Alcoholism, Murder, Gun violence, Rape, Hate crime, Racial slurs, and Toxic relationship