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Searching for Savanna: The Murder of One Native American Woman and the Violence Against the Many by Mona Gable

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pmhandley's review against another edition

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dark sad medium-paced

2.75

This book and the case it centers on is certainly interesting, but it fell short for me. The writing style of it really irritated me. There were so many sentence fragments that felt like a stream of consciousness. Additionally, I found myself asking what the purpose of this book was. The organization of it doesn't make much cohesive sense. We jump around from Savanna's murder, to the trial of her killers, to surface level explanations of MMIW. Did we need a chapter that runs down Savanna's old Facebook posts describing memes? I honestly don't think so. Savanna's story is tragic, but it didn't seem like the author had any unique insight that made sense for her to write this book. In fact, she seemed disrespectful at points, talking about how often she messaged Savanna's boyfriend and hoping to get a response. He obviously does not want to talk to you, leave him alone! At one point she talks to a childhood friend who clearly had not seen or talked to Savanna in a long time. The author just grabbed on to who she could get an interview with. I felt almost like her chapter on Brooke, one of Savanna's killers, was written to make you sympathetic. Her life had a lot of horrible events in it that impacted her, yeah, but it came off as being kinda friendly to someone that did a horrific fetal abduction and murder.
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moniipeters's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional informative mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

5.0

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