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3.93 AVERAGE
3.93 AVERAGE
emotional
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:
Complicated
"Never feel guilty for being where you belong,"
Words cannot adequately describe how I feel about this book. I wanted to scream afterwards. I cried and in my head, I raged. A stunning work of fiction steeped too much in the grim reality that is the horror of missing and murdered Indigenous women. I sit here still, shaking with sorrow.
Medina writes a slow, strangling horror story that takes you to the highest point with meticulous scene building until suddenly, we are careening to the bottom, faster than we want to go. The melding of so many Native cultures was brilliant and despite the dark, dark reality this book echoes there was so much beauty as well.
Highly recommend.
Words cannot adequately describe how I feel about this book. I wanted to scream afterwards. I cried and in my head, I raged. A stunning work of fiction steeped too much in the grim reality that is the horror of missing and murdered Indigenous women. I sit here still, shaking with sorrow.
Medina writes a slow, strangling horror story that takes you to the highest point with meticulous scene building until suddenly, we are careening to the bottom, faster than we want to go. The melding of so many Native cultures was brilliant and despite the dark, dark reality this book echoes there was so much beauty as well.
Highly recommend.
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
tense
medium-paced
challenging
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Well-written and engaging, this book covers the very real current-day issue of missing and murdered indigenous women. Though I feel like the book was a touch incorrectly-labeled (the description promised supernatural horror, of which I got none) I thought it was a very solidly put-together thriller/crime fiction novel. The characters and their plights were so real, and I kept hurrying to turn the pages to find out what happened next.
I received a review copy of this book from the publisher.
I received a review copy of this book from the publisher.
This was a fantastic story and a really impressive debut novel. It’s a story that needs to be told and Medina does so in a way that emphasizes it’s importance and cals the reader to action to support missing and murdered Indigenous people in our communities and all over. 4 stars instead of 5 mostly due to the way the book was structured; it jumps around in time, especially in the early part of the book, in a way that made it a bit confusing to follow. Part of what exacerbated this was that I listened to the audiobook, so maybe those reading the print version had less of an issue with this, but it took me a while to figure out the timeline and it felt like an unnecessarily confusing way to build the plot. Outside of the confusing timeline, I really enjoyed this book.
challenging
sad
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
challenging
dark
emotional
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
emotional
informative
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes