Reviews

Chasseurs d'étoiles by Cherie Dimaline

24marsha's review against another edition

5.0

Absolutely stunning follow up to The Marrow Thieves. Riveting plot continuation and the character building and development was amazing. Fans of The 100 will love this. Excellent Indigenous addition to my classroom library!!

sittingwishingreading's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark tense 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? Yes

4.0

katiegrrrl's review against another edition

5.0

What an incredible sequel to The Marrow Thieves. It was great to travel with these characters again and to get their stories wrapped up.

YMA 2022 American Indian Youth Literature Young Adult honor book

megansnextread's review against another edition

emotional reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.5

Wow, this series has my whole heart and soul. The writing is stunning and the content is gripping, heartbreaking, and eye-opening. 

 

In this series we follow a found family, who are constantly on the run from being captured to be tested, pocked and prodded for their bone marrow. The indigenous communities are being captured because they are the only population left on the planet who are able to dream. Once your dreams are gone, you become a shell of yourself. This book is the follow up to The Marrow Thieves and it picks up where the last book left off. 

 

I cried so hard reading these books, you come to love these characters so much. A lot more happens in this sequel then in the first book, it is much longer and has multiple POVs we are following. 

 

Other than the middle getting a little drawn out and the ending feeling rushed, I really loved this read. The writing style of Dimaline's cannot be matched, it is so beautiful. I love this found family and how they will never leave one behind. 

 

I cannot recommend this series enough! 

glindathegolden's review against another edition

4.0

As a huge fan of The Marrow Thieves I was so excited when this book came out. It did not disappoint! It is significantly larger than the first book and spreads the story between even more characters. This book brings up a lot of moral dilemmas that I had to ponder.
Loved it!

book_immersion's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful 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? Yes

4.25

alexture's review against another edition

 

On reprend Pilleurs de rêves, dont j'avais écrit ce retour en 2020 :

 Je ne savais pas à quoi m'attendre. Une dystopie jeune adulte normale. Un divergente, un hunger games. J'ai pris une bonne claque en travers de la tête. Sous prétexte de littérature young adult, Dimaline traite de sujets terribles, et elle n'adoucit rien. Les horreurs de la guerre, les réfugié·es climatiques, le génocide des autochtones dont elle rappelle qu'il a bien existé, dans une histoire encore toute récente, et que rien n'empêche sa reprise. Une lecture difficile psychologiquement, qui nous emporte avec sa passion et son héros adolescent. Un young adult pas comme les autres, que je ne peux que recommander, avec pas mal d'avertissements de contenu.

Et on fait pareil, en moins bien.

 

Alors ça reste bien, surtout qu'on a envie de connaître la suite de l'histoire de Frenchie, le héros des deux romans, mais ce n'est malheureusement pas du tout, du tout au même niveau que le premier tome.

 

Une lecture qui reste de bonne qualité, sans être aussi brillante que le premier essai. Le fait que l'autrice l'ait rédigé sous la pression des fans qui exigeaient une suite, sept ans après le premier tome censé se suffire à lui-même, a bien dû jouer sur cette insuffisance. 

brendan_e_m's review against another edition

2.0

The sequel doesn't land. I kind of liked the way Dimaline moves the plot forward and then backtracks to tell it from a new voice, but it was a strange decision to disregard those limited perspectives and switch to omniscient narration for a couple of paragraphs mid-chapter...and to do it multiple times. But this should in no way dissuade people from reading The Marrow Thieves and letting it rest as the stand-alone novel it was intended to be.

annika_fabbi's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense 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? It's complicated

2.5

leahjanespeare's review against another edition

4.0

I read this one almost back to back after finishing the first one and I almost think I liked it better? You get to see firsthand the horrors of the harvesting/conversion schools and it's terrifying. Really interesting sequel.

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Content Warnings

Same/similar content warnings to the first one, expect similar intensity.