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I like that she had spells for every card, but would have liked some witchy spreads as well. Only giving it 3 stars since it took me so long to get through because I just kept forgetting about it.

This  was a 2 star read for me, but I am not putting a rating in as I don't want to discourage anyone from it as I do think it's a good resource.

My biggest issue with this is that I can't figure out what the target audience is. I read the young readers version, but it's much too dry for me to imagine a young person enjoying it, and it's too simplistic for adults. The entire thing reads like an info sheet that you'd have at some corporate sensitivity training. I don't think any part of it is bad, it's just so boring.

I also struggled with the constant use of "Indians." I live in Arizona and I know many native people use that term, and it's absolutely not my place to have any opinion on that. However, as a book geared toward non-native people, I was a little uncomfortable that Treuer primarily used "Indians" instead of any other alternative. He even says in the text that it is offensive, and I would never use that term as a white person, so I think I would have preferred to see a term that is acceptable for everyone to use. But that's just my two cents and can be safely ignored.

Lackluster. I probably won't read anything else by Lahiri.

Dull as dishwater.

And the ending . . .

The voice was the old voice of god all along? But god abandoned humans so now we have to find our own way into the future? I think? what a boring, terrible ending.

I only finished this because I switched to the audio and could listen while doing other things. This was a chore. So lackluster. At least the first one had the badass ending to redeem it. This had nothing but more stupid revelations about Danica. She was like 24 when she died; there's no way she had time for all this.

Bite-size and creepy, this audiobook truly felt like a fever dream. Ambiguous ending.

Jones always makes his prose feel like you're tapping into the narrator's thoughts rather than reading words on a page. Marvelous.

 My friend said this book got better for her once she realized it was camp; that moment never happened for me. Holmes tried so hard to be funny but he just isn't, so the book drags. If you read it, remember that it's camp and hopefully have more fun than I did.

I listened to the audiobook which usually makes a story zip by, but this one dragged for me. I was intrigued in the beginning by the parallel interest in how Fiona's sister died and is it somehow tied to the girls at school there 50 years before?

I did genuinely enjoy both mysteries, and

I love a good ACAB ending

but I was never as invested as I wanted to be.