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Daughters of the Deer by Danielle Daniel

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m_storky's review

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challenging dark emotional sad 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? Yes

5.0


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corneliusmcstrawberry's review

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dark sad medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.0

currently writing this review in tears! just finished the book and i knew it was not going to be a happy ending yet the last paragraph pushed my tears over the edge. a beautiful and devastating book. 

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ivybaggs's review

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challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad 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? Yes

5.0

this is an emotional story that is told in a very caring way the way danielle wrote this was beautiful even if the story itself is heart wrenching it drew me in at the start and it drew tears at the end. when an author can make you feel such emotion and a connection with its characters you know their a good writer. these stories need to be told because every indigenous person deserves to have their ancestors stories told and theirs and especially the women and two spirited. i need everyone to read this to open their hearts and eyes and not only read an exceptional book but recognize that this may be fictional but it did happen the characters may be made up but these things have happened 

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kindredbooks's review

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dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced
  • 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

I received a copy of Daughters of the Deer by Danielle Daniel from Craft Public Relations and Penguin Random House Canada in exchange for an honest review.

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.

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