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Warrior Girl Unearthed by Angeline Boulley

8 reviews

heyheykk's review

adventurous emotional hopeful informative mysterious medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Racism, Colonisation, Kidnapping, and Death

Moderate: Self harm and Car accident

yvonna_reads's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation and Kidnapping

Minor: Self harm, Rape, and Sexual harassment

kickitupanotch7's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny informative mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation, Kidnapping, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, and Confinement

Moderate: Self harm, Murder, Cultural appropriation, and Drug use

Minor: Rape

rmperash's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Child death, Genocide, Hate crime, Colonisation, Cultural appropriation, Death, Drug abuse, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Rape, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Racial slurs, Self harm, Stalking, Racism, Sexual assault, Murder, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, and Trafficking

Moderate: Abandonment

k_bang96's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative inspiring mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Kidnapping, Colonisation, Death, Murder, Racism, Cultural appropriation, and Genocide

Minor: Child death, Genocide, Rape, Hate crime, Self harm, Vomit, and Death of parent

kdailyreads's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Kidnapping, Car accident, Death, Medical trauma, Sexism, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Cultural appropriation, Murder, Violence, Colonisation, and Grief

Moderate: Forced institutionalization, Child abuse, Self harm, Sexual assault, Pregnancy, Child death, Genocide, Sexual harassment, and Cursing

Minor: Vomit, Drug use, and Abandonment

franzis_buecher's review

adventurous emotional informative mysterious medium-paced

4.5

I read this book in about four days and it was so good!
 
I do think I prefer the first installment, Firekeeper's Daughter, because the resolution made a bit more sense to me in that one and I didn't love the romance in this sequel as much, but I still enjoyed it immensely! 

It also gave a very satisfying conclusion to some open questions from Firekeeper's Daughter, while of course Perry is the focus here and she has her own story going on. 

I really loved Perry as a character and she is very different from Daunis and a force to be reckoned with! 

It's also really interesting to see things and people from the first book from Perry's point of view. She was six years old in the first book and now ten years have passed and a lot has changed. Her parents also feel very different from her perspective compared to Aunt Teddie and Art from Daunis's POV. I always admire authors who can write this change of perspective well!

The side characters, especially Pauline and Team Misfit Toys, are a lot of fun as well. Cooper too, even though I didn't really get why he's described as "kooky", he seemed pretty normal to me.

I shouldn't have read the blurb on the back though, because I then expected the heist to center around the Warrior Girl in the university archives but it very much did not. She is just one starting point for Perry to think about repatriation and she wants to bring her home but the heist completely separate from that and unrelated to the university archives.

Nevertheless, it was a great story. It starts out slow as Perry learns more about repatriation and she gets more and more daring, and then picks up in the last third with the heist plan and everything.

Like in the first book, this one kept me guessing at who was behind several crimes and mysteries, and I had some suspicions but only one of them was right in the end. So the mystery part worked well for me.

There are some open questions at the end of this one too, however. 

- Where did Stormy disappear to during the heist and why? And what happened to the box he took with him?
- Who hit Erik and who hit Tom and why? (Maybe I just didn't understand that part correctly because I read it at 1 am)
- Who killed Darby? (I'm guessing it was Grant, but it's never stated)
- Did Leroy get convicted? (I hope so!)
- Who is Waabun's father? (I reread the end of Firekeeper's Daughter today and am convinced that it's Jamie, but when/why/where did that happen?)
- Why is Daunis now together with TJ? (tbh I didn't even remember that he was her ex in the first one)
- Will Perry find a way to get Warrior Girl back? (I sure hope so, but it's probably gonna take a while ...)

I hope there will be a third book, maybe from Waabun's POV when he's older? 
Definitely looking forward to any future installments, and I learned a lot reading this!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Cultural appropriation, and Colonisation

Moderate: Mental illness, Self harm, Misogyny, and Murder

Minor: Police brutality, Rape, and Racism

abigailbat's review

challenging emotional informative mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

Another hit from Angeline Boulley, this novel combines mystery with Ojibwe culture in a way that made for an engrossing story. I’m not much of a mystery reader, so I didn’t mind that the thriller aspects of the book don’t come into the story until about halfway through. I loved the use of indigenous language throughout and the way the story highlights the issue of repatriation in a way that makes total sense with the plot and characters. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation, Kidnapping, and Cultural appropriation

Moderate: Violence

Minor: Self harm