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adventurous
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.5
Skinwalkers is the first book with both Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee, and it's a little odd, that combination, with two very different policemen and their very different approach to solving murders.
The book opens with Chee surviving being shot at. At about three in the morning. Woken by the cat he doesn't really want to keep, Chee gets up and isn't lying in bed when the shooting starts. Leaphorn thinks Chee doesn't take enough precautions as the book progresses (and he's right), though Chee is the one who starts to figure out what's going on.
Like the other Hillerman books, this one has many things that all end up coming together at the end: it's all connected, no matter how much it looks like it isn't. Unlike other Hillerman books, the reason for the murders is explained, allowing the reader to learn what Leaphorn and Chee learned a few chapters earlier. Very helpful.
The book opens with Chee surviving being shot at. At about three in the morning. Woken by the cat he doesn't really want to keep, Chee gets up and isn't lying in bed when the shooting starts. Leaphorn thinks Chee doesn't take enough precautions as the book progresses (and he's right), though Chee is the one who starts to figure out what's going on.
Like the other Hillerman books, this one has many things that all end up coming together at the end: it's all connected, no matter how much it looks like it isn't. Unlike other Hillerman books, the reason for the murders is explained, allowing the reader to learn what Leaphorn and Chee learned a few chapters earlier. Very helpful.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Blood, Death, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, and Dementia
Moderate: Child death
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