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readingwithcoffee 's review for:
Winter Counts
by David Heska Wanbli Weiden
dark
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
The book begins with the protagonist beating a teacher for touching a little girl but one of the subplots relies on viewing a teenage girl “dating” a married teacher as a home wrecker that the female love interest tried then to punish by reporting and in her hands messing with her locker ergo bullying a another teenager for being a victim of an adult. The male protagonist also lists this as an example of her not being punished for her crimes when she’s later guilty of an actual crime if not the major ones. It’s violently machista and shows that at some point girls preyed on by teachers are blamed.
Which does also lead into the fact that the book had this obsession that even children lashing out becuase of sexual abuse or racism they received onto other kids couldn’t be reformed and all became bad adults in the a novel that very intentionally has a morally grey violent man at the helm who talked over and didn’t listen to anyone else the entire book?
The thriller was also incredibly predictable with poor writing with predictable Mexican cartels that weren’t realistic especially with the author saying flannel and jeans is suddenly gang wear if it’s a Mexican wearing it or the biggest mexican character being called loco. It read like a bad parody or war on drugs fantasy, especially with the book inaccurately claiming weed is addictive.
It had a interesting premise the author couldn’t follow up on.
Which does also lead into the fact that the book had this obsession that even children lashing out becuase of sexual abuse or racism they received onto other kids couldn’t be reformed and all became bad adults in the a novel that very intentionally has a morally grey violent man at the helm who talked over and didn’t listen to anyone else the entire book?
The thriller was also incredibly predictable with poor writing with predictable Mexican cartels that weren’t realistic especially with the author saying flannel and jeans is suddenly gang wear if it’s a Mexican wearing it or the biggest mexican character being called loco. It read like a bad parody or war on drugs fantasy, especially with the book inaccurately claiming weed is addictive.
It had a interesting premise the author couldn’t follow up on.