The Boatman's Daughter

I'm a little late logging this one because....pandemic. Also, I literally misplaced this book. Finally, I found it in a bag of shoes (!) and was then able to finish it. My thoughts: There was a show on a while ago called Hap and Leonard (it's also a book series by [b:Mucho Mojo 102119 Mucho Mojo (Hap and Leonard, #2) Joe R. Lansdale https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1171484469l/102119.SY75.jpg 1457512]. We have: a time before cellphones, crime, swamps, good-hearted people of the land, crazy preachers, and magic. The Boatman's Daughter could have been an episode of that show. So, if you enjoyed that, you will love this. There were times when I felt that Miranda Crabtree rivaled only Mattie Ross in the level of grit, but sometimes her one-liners and complete badassery went a little over the top and she ends up being more like the red-haired guy from CSI: Miami who whipped off his sunglasses to deliver cringe-worthy one-liners every episode. I was willing to forgive the cheese because Davidson also gives us Baba Yaga. No, for real. Sadly, her back story gets no play, but she's pretty badass as well. And a little gross. In the end, considering the circumstances of the world right now, and the fact that I put it down for a large chunk of time, was able to retain the characters and plot and had no problem picking it up again, I have to go 4 stars on this one. It loses a star because it should have been about 150 pages shorter. There are a great many scenes of the same scene, but now from a different character's POV. It got a little old. On a horror scale, it's about a low-medium. The setting is the scariest thing about the entire novel, except for the evil human characters.