A review by liketrees
Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger

adventurous mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes

4.5

Started slow for me; paper is weirdly thick, so it was hard to gauge my reading speed. I read the first ~50 pages about two months before the rest of the book. It was easy to get back into the plot but I never fully got into the vampire stuff specifically.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Grief

Moderate: Racism, Medical trauma, and Murder

Minor: Car accident and Death of parent

Re. medical trauma--part of the solution to the mystery is

a doctor who "cures" ailments by transferring them to the body of another person, usually someone marginalized or marginal