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By Book Riot · 79 posts · 1590 views
last updated Sep 25, 2022 09:27AM
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An interesting story with good pacing. It does a great job of incorporating Native culture into the narrative. Content warning: rape, murder, drugs. All of that mixed with a sometimes YA-ish sensibility.
I started off listening to the audiobook, because someone recommended that it was helpful to hear the Nish language elements, and I did appreciate that. But then when I had 2 hours left, I switched to the hardcover version, because I was too impatient to listen to the end (the one drawback of listening to this book -- I have no idea how to spell anything).
This was a gut-punch of a book. It was an undercover thriller, but also a slice of life novel, with fake dating like a cherry on top. And the ...more
This was a gut-punch of a book. It was an undercover thriller, but also a slice of life novel, with fake dating like a cherry on top. And the ...more
Dec 21, 2021
Molly
rated it
it was amazing
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review of another edition
Shelves:
ya-lit,
borrowed,
recommended,
5-stars,
realistic-fiction,
mystery,
new-adult,
read-in-2021
Ugh. So good. I avoided this initially because I’d mistakenly assumed it was some sort of high fantasy (a genre I’ve sadly lost the patience for lately). It is very much set in this world (albeit in 2004, a detail I kept getting surprised by for some reason). It’s about an Ojibwe girl named Daunis, a star hockey player with a family full of tragedy. Having a white mother and an Ojibwe father means Daunis has never felt she belongs in either world. And things get more complicated when she agrees
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A must read.
Excellent. Can’t wait for Angeline Boulley’s next book later this year.
Dec 23, 2024
Sarah
rated it
really liked it
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review of another edition
Shelves:
book-club,
fiction,
ya-fiction,
ya-mystery-and-thrillers,
michigan,
audiobook,
coming-of-age
Read for book club...review to come.
