Reading Wednesday

[sabotabby]

 Just finished; DreadfulWater by Thomas King. This was a very entertaining mystery; I'll definitely end up reading the next one in the series. I had the issue that I usually have with mysteries where I figure out who the murderer is way too early (having read a book or two in my life), but that's almost all mysteries. At any rate, it had lively characters, a cool tense setting, and the cat was rad. I was kind of surprised at how low-key the politics were; there's an activist subplot that we never really see, and there was obviously racial tension between the Indigenous and white characters, but not the criticism of policing that King generally brings to his non-fiction and would be interesting here.

Currently reading: Untamed Shore by Silvia Moreno-Garcia. I just started reading this; it's about a teenager in a small town in Mexico who gets offered a job typing and translating for three American visitors—an author, his glamorous wife, and her equally glamorous brother. There's an air of menace and claustrophobia to the town and a specificity of place that Moreno-Garcia excels at. I'm into it.

Comments

[frenzy]

Uhhh did the cat help solve the mystery? Because I absolutely love those trashy cat detective novels.

[sabotabby]

LOL the cat was more in the way than anything else.

[mistersmearcase]

Is Untamed Shore YA? I am super curious about small town life in Mexico (I always kind of want to plunge through the screen when I'm watching Y Tu Mama Tambien) but am not as likely to engage with YA.

[sabotabby]

The protagonist is 18 but it doesn't read as YA. There isn't a scene in the first chapter where she looks at herself in a mirror and comments on how ordinary and boring she is, for one. Moreno-Garcia is pretty literary stylistically.