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wanderinghappygal's review
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
sad
tense
slow-paced
5.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Murder, Racial slurs, Drug use, Genocide, Alcoholism, and Racism
frauleinn8123's review
4.0
This book is devastatingly haunting. Highlighting the immense incompetence of our local police and RCMP and the generations of suffering of our indigenous peoples, this is a page turner and must read.
dinasamimi's review
4.0
Important stories. More people need to know about this history and the full context around modern day constraints in Native communities. Great intro book into the complexities of that history in Canada.
wchereads's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
informative
sad
Made me angry / 5. ABOLISH THE POLICE. Maybe the entire Thunder Bay city too. And LAND BACK IMMEDIATELY
Loved the narrator Michaela Washburn. I could not have finished this extremely difficult book without her amazing narration.
Loved the narrator Michaela Washburn. I could not have finished this extremely difficult book without her amazing narration.
knod78's review
2.0
This is 2.5 stars for me. I really wanted to love this book. I was so excited and waited forever to get it from the library, but it was disappointing.
The subject, awesome. I'm so glad I learned about this history. We always hear about the horrible things we as Americans did to our own indigenous population, but we never hear about Canadians. This was an important book to teach you more. It is so sad to see this racism and horrible treatment that happened and still going on to this day. And she did a thorough job talking to everyone involved and really put me there in the scene.
However, the book was disorganized and all over the place and filled with repeated information. Half the time, I didn't know who the seven were and I kept getting lost. Sometimes, she would start talking heavily about this one person and then have a brief statement about the person who actually went missing/died, sometimes later one in another chapter for another person. I agree with many reviewers that the author should have just focused on the seven fallen feathers and not the other stuff or other people. I mean it's okay to give a history lesson and tie things in, but most of the chapters were just filled with that and less about the actual people who died. This really needed an editor to reign it in and the author should have continued with another book laying out all the other stuff. She went on about useless information like the clothes other people (not even the ones who died) liked to wear. It was frustrating. I got to end, which I thought was the meat of the point and I didn't care anymore. I was tired wading through all the information that didn't make sense.
I feel like there might be other books out there that are better. She does give a to read list at the end. I put those on my list to read for sure. I just didn't feel like this book was well written and that's sad, because I wanted to this to be so powerful.
The subject, awesome. I'm so glad I learned about this history. We always hear about the horrible things we as Americans did to our own indigenous population, but we never hear about Canadians. This was an important book to teach you more. It is so sad to see this racism and horrible treatment that happened and still going on to this day. And she did a thorough job talking to everyone involved and really put me there in the scene.
However, the book was disorganized and all over the place and filled with repeated information. Half the time, I didn't know who the seven were and I kept getting lost. Sometimes, she would start talking heavily about this one person and then have a brief statement about the person who actually went missing/died, sometimes later one in another chapter for another person. I agree with many reviewers that the author should have just focused on the seven fallen feathers and not the other stuff or other people. I mean it's okay to give a history lesson and tie things in, but most of the chapters were just filled with that and less about the actual people who died. This really needed an editor to reign it in and the author should have continued with another book laying out all the other stuff. She went on about useless information like the clothes other people (not even the ones who died) liked to wear. It was frustrating. I got to end, which I thought was the meat of the point and I didn't care anymore. I was tired wading through all the information that didn't make sense.
I feel like there might be other books out there that are better. She does give a to read list at the end. I put those on my list to read for sure. I just didn't feel like this book was well written and that's sad, because I wanted to this to be so powerful.
kshap's review
challenging
informative
sad
medium-paced
4.25
Content Warnings
Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Child abuse, and Racism
paulinaivette's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
sad
fast-paced
5.0