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The Marrow Thieves

Cherie Dimaline

Start date: January 1, 2021

Finish date: January 31, 2021

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TMT: Impracticality of the Schools [Spoilers]
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TMT: Not as dark as expected, and I'm OK with that
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Jan 18, 2021 Jenny (Reading Envy) rated it really liked it

Shelves: location-canada, indigenous-author, read2021, sci-fi-fantasy, post-apocalypse-and-dystopia, sword-and-laser, ya, 2021-laser

I finally read this YA dystopian novel where people perceived as being indigenous are kidnapped in hopes their bodies will help everyone else regain the ability to dream. The novel is more about the groups of people living on the run and the ways they connect and build community - very little is about the mad scientist component (this is okay but was a bit surprising based on how much it is included in most summaries of the book.) Also in the background are the history of the "residential school ...more

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Jan 12, 2021 Leesa rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: bookclub-pick, audiobook, 20xx_s-l_team_tom, 20xx_s-l_team_veronica, 2021

This was a very good story with top-notch narration.

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Feb 05, 2021 Beth rated it really liked it

Shelves: sword-and-laser, young-adult

I really liked the speculative parts of this book, with climate change resulting in societal collapse and then more inexplicably, the loss of dreaming by most of humanity. So now Native Americans are hunted down for their dreams, and our hero is the last of his family to escape the Retrievers. He meets up with a band and they keep fleeing away from the world, but also to a rediscovery of their cultural pasts. They treasure each word of the old languages they can learn from the older people, and ...more

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Dec 31, 2020 Jen rated it liked it · review of another edition

Quick read, but it fell apart in the last third for me. The teen angst got to be a bit much.

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Feb 10, 2021 Laurie rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: popsugar2021, 2021

A really great book. Basically, humans wreck the world. White people lose the ability to dream while North American indigenous people maintain it. This leads to the Native Americans needing to run and hide from hunters trying to recapture the ability to dream. A good found family and dystopian future story mixed with just enough hope.

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