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Sinister Graves by Marcie R. Rendon

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juliarochelleabroad's review

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adventurous dark mysterious sad tense slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

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mollila40's review

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adventurous mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

This is the 3rd book in the Cash Blackbear series and lived up to the first two mysteries.

I like Cash as a character, flawed and scarred by her past, fighting her demons. I appreciate that she’s maturing and making more healthy choices in this book, aka glad she’s putting Jim to off!

I enjoy her ways of assisting the sheriff’s department investing the crimes in her county. I did miss Sheriff Wheaten, he had a minor role in this book. I wish he had been there to help mentor her more during the legal tangles at the end.

The new characters in this book were great! I love Al and Jonesy. I really hope Jonesy continues to guide Cash and help her with her insights, and that we’ll get to know her at a deeper level.

It was a good twisted tale in the end, I loved the 1970’s interpretation of the villain’s root issues. It was a surprising outcome and unexpected.

But what made the book for me was the author notes at the end that described how Marcie Rendon came up with the story and twists! That was so cool to have a sneak into the process.

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ellemelle9's review

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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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rready's review

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dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.25

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tangleroot_eli's review

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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 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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