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challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
This is my least favorite book in the series so far. Although, given how much I like this series, my least favorite book in it is still miles ahead of a lot of other mysteries I've read.
I still really like Cash and her world, and Rendon's writing style. I appreciate that Rendon looks beyond the conventional question of whodunnit and explores the societal conditions that allowed "it" to happen in the first place.
However, Rendon's sparse noir style, which I otherwise greatly enjoy, did a real disservice tothe complexity and trauma of Dissociative Identity Disorder - or Multiple Personality Disorder, as it was called in the '70s. Rural white people killing Indigenous women and children was and is an all-too-real scenario that doesn’t need a misunderstood mental health diagnosis to explain it away. A killer with unexpected and underexplored DID is big miss, in my book.
I still really like Cash and her world, and Rendon's writing style. I appreciate that Rendon looks beyond the conventional question of whodunnit and explores the societal conditions that allowed "it" to happen in the first place.
However, Rendon's sparse noir style, which I otherwise greatly enjoy, did a real disservice to
Graphic: Colonisation, Mental illness, Death, Racism, and Alcohol
Moderate: Child abuse, Alcoholism, Blood, Violence, Infidelity, Murder, Religious bigotry, Sexual harassment, Confinement, Grief, Kidnapping, and Vomit
Minor: Car accident, Trafficking, War, Death of parent, and Rape
Religious trauma
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