Reviews tagging 'Confinement'

Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley

97 reviews

mels_reading_log's review against another edition

adventurous dark informative medium-paced

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

4.5

This book tells about a meth operation that is taking over a Native American community and killing teens. It is told from on female teen’s point of view as she tries to figure out what is going on in her community and who she can trust. She helps to show the readers the difficulties of not only being a female, but being Native American and of mixed race and how the discrimination makes life so much harder. I learned a lot about some of the history of these communities and why they do not trust outsiders and the government, they have been hurt and forgotten so many times.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Toxic relationship, Addiction, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Rape, Sexual assault, Violence, Car accident, Gun violence, Chronic illness, Grief, Alcoholism, Colonisation, Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Sexual violence

nefariousbee's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

I think it's mostly me, I have to accept mysteries are just not for me. I can't tell you if the book is boring and predictable and the pacing doesn't make sense and the characters sometimes seem so out of character etc etc because that might have been me being done with the genre. at least partly, that is. it was easy to read tho, so there's that.
the biggest asset of this book for me was the huge part that played the MC's indigenous American heritage. absolutely loved that and I wish there were more stories with such deep and loving portrayal of an indigenous culture.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Gun violence, Rape, Car accident, Confinement, Kidnapping, Racial slurs, Sexism, Drug abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Death, and Death of parent

Moderate: Dementia, Grief, Infidelity, Addiction, and Gaslighting

jupitermaybe's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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: Confinement, Gun violence, Domestic abuse, Murder, Drug use, Addiction, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Drug abuse, Rape, Blood, Car accident, and Racism

laughingrecord's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative mysterious sad 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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Misogyny, Murder, Blood, Body shaming, Infidelity, Addiction, Car accident, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Racial slurs, Sexual assault, Confinement, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Rape, Sexual harassment, Kidnapping, Medical content, and Racism

knit_the_resistance's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative inspiring tense medium-paced

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

4.5

I loved so much about this book. I loved the Native perspective and use of language, imagery, ways of knowing, respect for elders... All of it. It was wonderful to listen to with a truly masterful young voice. 
In general, I do not love action/adventure stories where one implausible exciting thing piles on top of the next. Drugs! Murder! Violence!  Running wildly through the woods! Etc! I just find it unrealistic enough that I lose the plot. No one's life is like that. 
But the parts I liked outweigh the implausible parts, so, yeah, a good rating!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Suicide, Racial slurs, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Car accident, Vomit, Pregnancy, Medical content, Kidnapping, Forced institutionalization, Drug use, Colonisation, Addiction, Sexual assault, Physical abuse, Drug abuse, Gun violence, Grief, Death of parent, Confinement, Medical trauma, and Death

Moderate: Alcohol

geometricsun's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad 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? It's complicated

5.0

The best book I’ve read in a long long time, and maybe my favorite

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, Gun violence, Child death, and Addiction

Moderate: Violence, Car accident, Sexual assault, Rape, Sexual violence, and Kidnapping

Minor: Religious bigotry, Alcohol, Medical trauma, Racism, Medical content, Cultural appropriation, Cursing, Sexual content, Blood, Confinement, Genocide, and Death of parent

megob's review against another edition

I really loved the book, up until the part where I stopped.

I totally understand that books can't all have a happy ending, and that this ending--had I read it--probably wouldn't be *un*happy, but I'm disappointed that that's how it went. Yeah, I was surprised, but I wouldn't have read the book knowing the ending. And that kinda ruins it for me.

 

First half of the book gets 5 stars. Third quarter gets 4 stars. Last 6% gets a DNF 🤷

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Gun violence, Grief, Gaslighting, Addiction, Violence, Sexual harassment, Rape, Racism, Car accident, Confinement, Colonisation, Drug abuse, Death, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Medical trauma, Dysphoria, Sexual assault, Kidnapping, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child death, Gore, Cultural appropriation, Emotional abuse, and Domestic abuse

Minor: Infidelity, Panic attacks/disorders, and Police brutality

If you're looking for spoilers based on content warnings.

the main character experiences or sees all the things listed above happen in her community. Multiple deaths throughout the book, many of which the reader is present for. Descriptions of her grief after these deaths. Neurodivergency affecting her experience of grief and understanding of the situations. A gun is directed at the main character. Descriptions of those in the throes of addiction. Graphic description of sexual assault with "fade to black" followed by internal and external gaslighting and the suggestion that this was not his first assault. Drugging and kidnapping resulting in confinement and forced compliance with illegal activity. Car accident follows which results in medical trauma and death.

At that point I stopped reading, so I'm not certain if anyone was brought to justice but it seems like they would be. Putting it all out there it seems like a horrible story, but it's really really not! The pacing and atmosphere of the first half of the book are very different from the last half.

janiyasayl's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny mysterious medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape, Death, and Grief

Minor: Murder, Racism, Alcohol, Confinement, Colonisation, Drug abuse, and Drug use

empathephant's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious slow-paced

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

3.0

I really enjoyed it overall, but the pacing was hard. It took a long time to read because I kept falling into slumps.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Gun violence, and Rape

Moderate: Medical content, Racism, Kidnapping, Addiction, Confinement, and Murder

Minor: Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Forced institutionalization, Death of parent, Car accident, Colonisation, and Alcohol

This book heavily involves police work. No direct physical brutality is displayed, but the emotional and other consequences of using outside policing in a native community is apparent. In the end,

several characters do not get the justice they are seeking, and characters who have committed crimes are not treated equally by the judicial system. Murdered and missing indigenous women are discussed. The story ends hopefully, but shows there is a lot of work to be done.

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galexy_brain's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious 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? No

4.0

What a page-turner! I needed to know more. I appreciated the story's invitation into the lives of indigenous folks on a reservation and learning more about Anishnaabe language and culture. I found

her brother being involved in the drug ring predictable because Daunis idolized him the whole time, even when he was evidently shitty in some ways. I also found Daunis's experience of grief to fall flat partially, but I'm no expert on how people process grief. It's just that as a reader I didn't really feel her grief very strongly, or find it particularly sad when Lily died, since we barely got to know her beforehand. I also really wanted to find out what was going on with the Little People but they never reappeared.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Gun violence, Murder, and Suicide

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Car accident, Death, Addiction, and Grief

Minor: Alcoholism, Blood, Racism, Alcohol, Drug use, Infidelity, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Sexism, Violence, Classism, Death of parent, Abandonment, Confinement, Drug abuse, Kidnapping, Medical content, Toxic relationship, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, and Xenophobia