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Firekeeper’s Daughter (Firekeeper's Daughter, #1)

Angeline Boulley

Start date: November 1, 2021

Finish date: November 30, 2021

Discussion: 2021 Monthly Group Reads

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Apr 18, 2021 Taryn rated it really liked it

If you read Winter Counts and enjoyed it, this is a great follow up to that, but with younger characters. The themes in this book are explored in such a tender way that everything is brought to life. There is a moment of tropey 'villain explains the plot' and I think some of the information giving could have been a bit more organic, but everything else makes up for those small things. Plus, there is a lot of hockey in this book, and that's always a huge win for me. ...more

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Feb 19, 2022 Beth Given rated it liked it

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Daunis is a science whiz, a hockey star, and a recent high school graduate. She's planning on attending the local college with her best friend, and she's intrigued by the Jamie, the new hockey player in town who befriends her half-brother, Levi. But then tragedy strikes, rocking her community, and Daunis is pulled into a criminal investigation that she hopes can heal her beloved neighbors, friends, and family.

This book is a lot grittier than what I usually read: violence, meth, sexual assault. B ...more

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Jun 09, 2021 Adrienne rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: 2021-popsugar-challenge, mystery, thriller, fiction, young-adult

I enjoyed the immersion into the culture and scenery of the Ojibwe reservation and the UP more generally. The main plotline was compelling enough to make this book a page-turner. My main problem with this book is that it needed another strong edit--it had a lot of repetition of mundane details, too many plot diversions and side characters, a few tropes that came off as corny, and some issues with the main character's voice (she's 18-19 in the story but sometimes sounds 13 and sometimes sounds 30 ...more

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