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Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice

2 reviews

cepbreed's review

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-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

4.5

 “The world isn’t ending,” she went on. “Our world isn’t ending. It already ended. It ended when the Zhaagnaash came into our original home down south on that bay and took it from us. That was our world.” 

Holy shit. I was assigned this book as a part of my Indigenous Pop: Anticolonialism and Genre Fiction class and I never expected to love it so much. The building tension nearly had me shitting bricks. The way this book reads is perfectly timed with the rate at which the Ojibwe are also gaining more knowledge about their predicament. Sure, going into this book I knew it was apocalyptic fiction, but that never took away from the slow build of dread as the winter got colder and the electricity continued to stay shut off. I have an exactly equal amount of love and hate for the fact that the last couple chapters are so vague.

I appreciate not seeing incredibly graphic cannibalism but at the same time I would've loved to see Evan's POV again to just assure he is alive. After discussing this in class I cannot believe I was so blind to the obvious. Justin Scott is a wiindigo. He is trying to corrupt the community to his insane cause, he encouraged others to join him in cannibalism to survive the winter and became an even greater monster. This is even more scary thinking about how he followed the two boys from the city to their community, was he planning to attack and eat them? Then the man he shot, is his body actually decomposing in the snow or did he eat him?

I'm confused but totally in love with this narrative. 

 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation, Cannibalism, Death, Animal death, Murder, Abandonment, Grief, Gun violence, and Racism

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Medical content, and Violence

Minor: Suicide, Sexual content, Alcohol, and Alcoholism

talonsontypewriters's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Grief, Gun violence, Murder, Violence, and Death

Moderate: Cannibalism, Injury/Injury detail, Alcohol, Gore, Body horror, Drug use, Colonisation, Fire/Fire injury, and Racism

Minor: Child death, Alcoholism, Racial slurs, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Forced institutionalization, Suicide, Sexual content, and War