Lexie's review
Coyote Blue
by Christopher Moore
Lexie's review
Coyote Blue by Christopher Moore
Lexie's review
rating:
I really enjoyed this book. It is not as good as, say, Anansi Boys or Tonto and the Lone Ranger Fistfight in Heaven, but it deals with Native American mythology better than a lot of books I've read.
There are several obstacles to overcome when writing about Native American culture. The first is to make the characters seem like people rather than cliches. There are so many cliches of Native Americans that it is really difficult to avoid using at least one. You have your Tontos, your spiritual guides, your sage medicine men, your destitute drunks, your young rebels, etc.
Moore pulls off something that few other authors have: he's made each of his characters an archetype, yet completely belong to themselves alone. Calliope, for example, is almost your typical white spiritual bimbo-- into crystals and healing and spirit things and Buddha. But in...more
There are several obstacles to overcome when writing about Native American culture. The first is to make the characters seem like people rather than cliches. There are so many cliches of Native Americans that it is really difficult to avoid using at least one. You have your Tontos, your spiritual guides, your sage medicine men, your destitute drunks, your young rebels, etc.
Moore pulls off something that few other authors have: he's made each of his characters an archetype, yet completely belong to themselves alone. Calliope, for example, is almost your typical white spiritual bimbo-- into crystals and healing and spirit things and Buddha. But in...more
