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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 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
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