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Badlands by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
3.0
medium-paced

I received an ARC of this from the publisher and didn’t realize this was book 5 in the series (eek!) so keep that context in mind when reading this review.

This was an okay mystery/thriller set in a unique setting featuring some cool nuggets of Indigenous and American history. I’m loving the uptick in books with cult vibes but this one hit a little close to home as a current PhD student. 

Outside of the cult vibes and the history this wasn’t pretty memorable to me and maybe that’s because I started in the middle (or end?) of this series. I did enjoy the mixture of history and mystery/thriller and will give book one a shot.