Reviews tagging 'Child abuse'

Sinister Graves by Marcie R. Rendon

3 reviews

ellemelle9's review

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

Enjoyed this page turner - would recommend! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Racism, Violence, Kidnapping, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Alcohol, and Colonisation

Moderate: Sexual assault

Minor: Physical abuse

tangleroot_eli's review

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 to 

the 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.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Mental illness, Racism, Alcohol, and Colonisation

Moderate: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Confinement, Infidelity, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Kidnapping, Grief, Religious bigotry, Murder, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Rape, Trafficking, Car accident, Death of parent, and War

Religious trauma

readingwithkaitlyn's review

dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Child abuse, Drug abuse, Infertility, Mental illness, Racism, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Sexual harassment

Minor: Infidelity, Sexual assault, Car accident, Alcohol, and War

Flooding, drinking and driving, foster care system, starvation, MMIWG2S,