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A review by readingwitherin
Village in the Dark by Iris Yamashita
adventurous
dark
emotional
hopeful
medium-paced
5.0
Thank you to Netgalley and Berkley for an e-arc!
May Contain Spoilers if you haven't read City Under One Roof.
I have been waiting for the second book in the Cara Kennedy detective series since City Under One Roof ended. Village in the Dark did not disappoint and we finally, finally have answers to the cliffhangers we were left with last time.
Village in the Dark follows three different characters. Cara, Ellie, and Mia.
Cara is the main character from the first book and the one the story follows the most as the entire series is focused around her.
Ellie is a character we met in the first book City Under One Roof that rents out rooms to people visiting Point Mettier.
Lastly, we have a new character Mia who is a young woman who is on her own in the world for the most part and because of this gets herself into a dangerous situation.
Surprisingly for once I enjoyed all of the different perspectives! They were all so interesting and well done without it being too much.
Village in the Dark starts with Cara investigating her husband and son's deaths, and reopening the case to find out what really happened to them as it is still unsolved. She is doing this all on her own and paying for it through a private company to get the DNA matched. She is doing this because at the end of the first book she finds a photo of her husband and son on a gang member's phone making her believe that they were murdered and it wasn't an accident. Cara's husband and son's photos were not the only ones photos on this phone as several other people who are also missing or dead are also on it. This leads Cara to start investigating with some help from her friends in Point Mettier as she tries to put the pieces together of what happened to them.
Overall I loved this book! It was such a quick read because I just had to know what happened next, and the author kept the pacing nice and steady to keep everything connecting and going until the end. The three different perspectives worked great and showed how what happened to them became this huge thing and how it affected so many different people's lives. Ellie was amazing in this book with how she put things together when it came to her own loss and how she recruited people to help find out information as well. Mia was a bit of a wild card and I wasn't sure how she would be connected to the story, but she had so much information that was vital to the entire thing.
I was not expecting things to go the way they did in the end and that ending was huge! So many things happened in a short amount of time, and it was great to see all the different pieces that had been found out piece together to show how much bigger this all ended up being and how it all snowballed together. I cannot wait to see what happens next in this series! (Has it been confirmed that this is a series yet? I keep seeing conflicting information)
I would also like to applaud the author's knowledge and research into Indigenous culture and beliefs as they did such a good job of making sure that was included and a big part of the story.
May Contain Spoilers if you haven't read City Under One Roof.
I have been waiting for the second book in the Cara Kennedy detective series since City Under One Roof ended. Village in the Dark did not disappoint and we finally, finally have answers to the cliffhangers we were left with last time.
Village in the Dark follows three different characters. Cara, Ellie, and Mia.
Cara is the main character from the first book and the one the story follows the most as the entire series is focused around her.
Ellie is a character we met in the first book City Under One Roof that rents out rooms to people visiting Point Mettier.
Lastly, we have a new character Mia who is a young woman who is on her own in the world for the most part and because of this gets herself into a dangerous situation.
Surprisingly for once I enjoyed all of the different perspectives! They were all so interesting and well done without it being too much.
Village in the Dark starts with Cara investigating her husband and son's deaths, and reopening the case to find out what really happened to them as it is still unsolved. She is doing this all on her own and paying for it through a private company to get the DNA matched. She is doing this because at the end of the first book she finds a photo of her husband and son on a gang member's phone making her believe that they were murdered and it wasn't an accident. Cara's husband and son's photos were not the only ones photos on this phone as several other people who are also missing or dead are also on it. This leads Cara to start investigating with some help from her friends in Point Mettier as she tries to put the pieces together of what happened to them.
Overall I loved this book! It was such a quick read because I just had to know what happened next, and the author kept the pacing nice and steady to keep everything connecting and going until the end. The three different perspectives worked great and showed how what happened to them became this huge thing and how it affected so many different people's lives. Ellie was amazing in this book with how she put things together when it came to her own loss and how she recruited people to help find out information as well. Mia was a bit of a wild card and I wasn't sure how she would be connected to the story, but she had so much information that was vital to the entire thing.
I was not expecting things to go the way they did in the end and that ending was huge! So many things happened in a short amount of time, and it was great to see all the different pieces that had been found out piece together to show how much bigger this all ended up being and how it all snowballed together. I cannot wait to see what happens next in this series! (Has it been confirmed that this is a series yet? I keep seeing conflicting information)
I would also like to applaud the author's knowledge and research into Indigenous culture and beliefs as they did such a good job of making sure that was included and a big part of the story.