A review by pacardullo
Those Across the River by Christopher Buehlman

3.0

I am torn on this one. I generally liked it, but there were bits that brought it down a star. While it tries to deal with racism and the legacy of slavery, it ends up including some racist tropes. I am not talking about the narrator's and others' use of racist language. That felt period-appropriate. It was that at least one of the plot points involved a particularly heinous racist trope - and it did not feel like it was included as a commentary on that trope, but simply using it as it has been in the past.

If you do read it, go in "blind" as part of the fun is trying to figure out what is going on.