A review by madarauchiha
Return to Dyatlov Pass by J.H. Moncrieff

dark mysterious sad fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? N/A
  • Loveable characters? N/A
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
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So a podcaster? I think she's a podacaster. She goes on a trip with a bunch of other hikers, not sure why they're also there besides being tourists, all the way to where this mass death happened. So far she hasn't done anything like take notes, journal, make visual archives like photos or video. This lady is pretty bad at podcasting. She also has done zero personal research on it besides going to the location. Also there's an antagonistic character called Steven and it's pretty obvious
he's going to be a plot twist identity reveal stalker cyber bully guy. Because he is. Steven/Cliff's deal is that his great grand aunt is one of the people who died in the original DP incident and he was cyberbullying the MC into investigating it.


Considering she's such a shit investigator,
he would have been better off personally investigating it. His excuse is that he wanted witnesses and also he wouldn't have done a good job if he hired guides and went there himself.
Ok sure. 

fake edit ok wait she pulls out 'her gear' which isn't described and does a verbal interview with a fellow team members. This happens once.

People start dying after this. The last
four try to pull a last stand in a ravine. It doesn't work and they all die except for the MC. At the least, the russian police find them, somehow. The MC thinks it's the snowmen, and accidentally kills one of them. It's left on a cliffhanger of the Russian police staring her down, guns raised.


I wouldn't say it's a bad book, but I don't think it's a good book. I don't care for supernatural horror of the bigfoot variety, so I won't leave a specific star rating.

Characters of color
There's an Inuit woman. She
dies of screen but her body is shown and it's horrible.


There's a Mansi man. Vasily. He
dies on screen, very horribly and painfully.


Racism.
This uses racist old tired trope of silly indigenous people having a scary monster from their culture that's big and evil and kills indescriminately. Or it's actually Russian human experimentation. It's never really explained.


lesbophobia
there's a brief mention of a woman character pretending to be gay to avoid cis men advances.


major gore, stalking, injuries, gore, violence, eye trauma, death, murder, 

medium stalking, peer abuse , bullying, alcohol, 

minor alcohol, eugenics, rape, lesbophobia, suicidal thoughts, police, 
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