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The Gone Dead by Chanelle Benz

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tatochippa's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective relaxing slow-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? No

4.75

katel1970's review against another edition

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3.0

Lots of potential, it just didn't completely hang together for me.

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At 35, Billie James is a bit at loose ends. Her white mother has died of cancer. Her black father died 30 years ago when he went back to his childhood town in the Mississippi delta. Both her parents were writers and her father was a poet of some renown. Billie has inherited her father's rundown house and a little money so she takes a week off from her life in Philly to go reconnect with her memories of Mississippi. Her presence, and her deepening questioning about her father's death, start unnerving some people who want her gone. Billie is determined to learn the truth of her father's life and death, to unpack her childhood memories and to force the 'powers that be' to confront their misdeeds. That turns out to be complicated. Once I started, I wanted to keep reading... and did.

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4.0

Highly recommend this in audiobook form! The reader's voice really made the character POV switches and time period/setting come alive. It was a mystery that was all too real, and the drive within Billy to get justice had me all caught up, too.