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This is one awesome book - it gradually sucks you in until you can't put it down to find out what happens at the end.
I liked the amazingly strong protagonist - the sports (ice hockey) with tough girl players. the insight into a different culture.
My only beef is that (like all YA at the moment) it could have done with a bit of editing for length and repetition. ...more
I liked the amazingly strong protagonist - the sports (ice hockey) with tough girl players. the insight into a different culture.
My only beef is that (like all YA at the moment) it could have done with a bit of editing for length and repetition. ...more
One of the best YA novels I’ve read. Compelling characters, a plausible mystery and satisfying resolution that is tautly told.
One of my favorite YA books this year. A suspenseful thriller that doubles as a romance and a great window into First Nations life in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. I listened to the audio book, which was fantastic, since the narrator uses a blend of French and native language along with English. You also get some great characters to love and hate in a town where a meth ring is causing deaths of teenagers. The summer after graduating, the narrator, a hockey star and budding naturalist, goes un
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Daunis has grown up with a strong connection to her late father's Anishinaabe community but is also seen as an outsider at times because of her fair skin and her mother's European heritage. When a meth epidemic claims the life of her uncle, her closest friend and some classmates, she agrees to become a CI for some undercover FBI agents. This is a fantastic story with a speedy plot and an amazing heroine but the added depth comes from the depictions of Anishinaabe culture.
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