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booklover_04's review
- 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
5.0
Graphic: Violence, Murder, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Child abuse, Death, Drug abuse, War, Racial slurs, Religious bigotry, Sexual content, Hate crime, Lesbophobia, Pedophilia, Suicide, Alcohol, Bullying, Death of parent, Homophobia, Toxic relationship, Colonisation, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Addiction, Grief, Racism, Incest, Forced institutionalization, Infidelity, Medical trauma, and Genocide
Minor: Sexual harassment
sandyrabanana's review
- 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
Graphic: Domestic abuse, Religious bigotry, Homophobia, Suicide, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Grief, Torture, Toxic relationship, Colonisation, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, and Lesbophobia
Moderate: Sexual content, Sexual violence, Infidelity, Kidnapping, and War
kindredbooks's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
5.0
Danielle Daniel is a master storyteller and she's proven to be so versatile in what she writes - children's books, middle grade novels, and now historical fiction. In Daughters of the Deer, Danielle Daniel transports readers to the 1600s, where we follow the lives of the women in the Algonquin territories. The story is inspired by her own family's ancestral link to this time period - where a young girl was murdered by French settlers. In this story, we first follow Marie of the Deer Clan who finds herself considering marriage to a French settler in order to strengthen the relationships between the settlers and her tribe in order to protect them from the Iroquois raids. Marie has many suspicions and doubts about these settlers and their beliefs but she does what is best for her people. Years later, her daughter Jeanne is struggling to find her place in this society where she is told what a woman can and must do. While who she is would be celebrated by her mother's people, the church and the settlers find her sinful. This beautiful, tragic and sorrowful story about Marie and Jeanne is one that shows how the abuse and violence against Indigenous women has been present ever since the beginning of the interactions between the settlers and the Indigenous peoples.
Daniel Danielle continues to weave her magic in storytelling and I felt that I was there with Marie and Jeanne as their stories unfolded. I wanted to root for them so badly even as I knew that this story would end tragically. It is a story that continues to add to my education as a settler here on traditional lands - in understanding the culture, beliefs and lives of the Indigenous peoples, and seeing it juxtaposed with those of the settlers who sought to assimilate them.
Graphic: Alcoholism, Grief, Blood, Colonisation, Death, Murder, Torture, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Religious bigotry, Child death, Racism, Homophobia, Animal death, Sexual violence, and Violence
Moderate: Suicide, Infidelity, and Kidnapping