For once, I read a duology without waiting months and months in between the books! In Darcie Little Badger’s books Elatsoe and Sheine Lende, we follow two members of the same family: Ellie and Shane, a granddaughter and grandmother. In the first book, Ellie is a high schooler living in an America quite like our …
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Book Review | Looking for Smoke
Looking for Smoke by K. A. Cobell follows four teenagers—Mara, Brody, Loren, and Eli—who live on the Blackfeet reservation. When one of their classmates, Samantha, is murdered at a tribal giveaway event, the four of them are thrown together. They were the last four to see Samantha alive, and so are thrown under suspicion. As …
Book Review | To Shape a Dragon’s Breath
Okay, the internet is wrong. If you read just one dragon book this year, don’t read Fourth Wing. Read this instead! (Like, Fourth Wing was okay, but it pales in comparison to this.) In To Shape a Dragon’s Breath by Moniquill Blackgoose, fifteen-year-old Anequs has grown up on the island of Masquapaug. This place hasn’t …
Book Review | The Storyteller (ARC)
I received an advance reader’s copy (ARC) of The Storyteller by Brandon Hobson. Since this version is just a proof and not the final version, I won’t quote directly and will keep my comments general. In The Storyteller, Ziggy is struggling in middle school due to his anxiety, as well as due to the lingering …
Book Review | Calling For a Blanket Dance (ARC)
I received an advance reader’s copy (ARC) of Calling For a Blanket Dance by Oscar Hokeah. Since this version is just a proof and not the final version, I won’t quote directly and will keep my comments general. In Calling For a Blanket Dance, we follow the life of Ever Geimausaddle through the various perspectives …
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