Exposure by Ramona Emerson
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Web ID: 20312236Love the double meaning of the title!!
I got this book because the author is Navajo (from my tribe) and it’s my first thriller!! I love it and the haunting and horror kept me at the edge of my comfort, it was also beautifully written! I also got to meet Ramona Emerson at my book club, she even signed my book!
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Haunting Sequel
I absolutely love Shutter by @reelindian and the follow up novel Exposure is a haunting sequel. We pick up with Navajo forensic photographer, Rita Todacheene, where the prior novel left off. Rita is a talented forensic photographer who also is able see and communicate with ghosts. In this book, she is pulled back home to the Navajo reservation where she grew up and her grandmother still lives. Unfortunately, there is a serial killer who is targeting Native people. Will Rita and her special abilities be able to put a stop to this murderer. I highly recommend both of Ramona’s books especially if you enjoy supernatural crime fiction, dual POVs, and strong female protagonist.
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A Native America police investigator
Exposure by Ramona Emerson is the second in a series, new to me, and one I chose explicitly because of its foray into the Native American spirituality/occult. I am fascinated by this topic and it’s treatment in numerous novels. This was an interesting book, switching between two narrators: one the Native American forensic photographer/investigator; and the other a severely mentally ill serial killer. It was a fascinating display of being haunted as each of them were. Rita Todacheene was called to the residence where an horrific mass murder had taken place. An entire family, gone. She was greeted by the ghost of one of the little girls. She spent hours on the photos and then a startling discovery was made in the shed. The head of this family was a retired cop and, no matter what, his reputation must be guarded. It was exactly what had gotten Rita shot and in the mental state she was now. She was not sure how much longer she could work in this corrupt system. The second narrator was Brother Gabriel Jensen, a man who had suffered abuse his entire childhood and had entered adulthood to join a small sect of priests who were less than conventional. He was loved by all and worked hard to save his “parishioners,” the homeless Navajo wandering the streets of Gallup, NM. This was a novel which touched my soul. The weight Rita carried was beyond burdensome: it was driving her mad. Thankfully she had her friend, Shanice, and her grandmother as well as a native medicine man, who brought her back to the reservation and forced her to rest. She could not interpret what she was seeing and so she tried to manage the visions, the ghosts, by simplifying her life. It turns out what she needed was to find absolution for all of them so they could pass to the next life. This was an interesting book, from the standpoint of being present while a man sunk into mental illness. We all know it is out there, now we have one example of why. What if we could prevent it? Could we? This was an amazing novel. I can’t wait to read her next one. I was invited to read Exposure by Soho Press. All thoughts and opinions are mine. #Netgalley #SohoPress #RamonaEmerson #Exposure
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Dual POV Edge of Your Seat Thriller
I received this ARC as a Goodreads giveaway winner; My opinions are my own. I was gripped by this book from the very start and did not want to put it down. It has dual POV; Rita of Navajo descent who is a forensic photographer and has the ability to see ghosts and the POV from the killer and how he came to be. This is actually the second book in a series but can easily be read as a stand alone. There is an underlying story about the hardships of the Navajo Indians that are being targeted. This was very interesting and done in a respectful way as the author herself holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the Institute of American Indian Arts and runs a production company with her husband called Reel Indian Pictures. I highly recommend this book!
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