Reviews - Firekeeper's Daughter

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Firekeeper's Daughter

Angeline Boulley

4.4 AVERAGE

crescent_moon22's review against another edition

5.0

medium-paced

Content Warnings

lucialeedavis's review against another edition

5.0

dark mysterious slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

This was a slow read, but the ending (last 100 pages or so) had me SHOOK. So good!!!

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kari_risher_reads's review against another edition

4.0

I’m pleasantly pleased. I feel like I learned a lot about hockey, drug trafficking, and tribal tradition. There’s a lot of self discovery involved as well.

Summary:
Daunis Fontaine, 18, is half-white, half-native and a former hockey player whose life is divided between the non-tribal and Ojibwe communities in Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan. She becomes a confidential informant for an FBI investigation into a meth-trafficking ring. She falls for Jamie, a junior officer who is posing undercover as a high school student. In the end, many people are implicated, including her half-brother, Levi, and her former coach. While some justice is doled out, injustices remain as well. Daunis emerges with a clearer sense of who she is, her priorities and who she wants to be.

Part 1:
- Daunis meets Jamie
- Daunis's best friend Lily is shot and killed by her meth-head boyfriend Travis, who then kills himself
- Jamie reveals that he's actually an undercover cop investigating drug trafficking in the area
- Daunis finds out her Uncle David was a confidential informant
- Daunis agrees to become one as well

Part 2:
- Daunis helps Jamie and Ron to investigate, with Jamie posing as her boyfriend and Ron posing as Jamie's uncle
- Ron warns Jamie and Daunis about getting too close in their fake relationship, but by that time they have fallen for each other
- Daunis also becomes an "enrolled" member of the tribe
- Heather Nodin and Robin Bailey die
- Both deaths involved meth
- Daunis investigates by scouting out local plants, trying to look at the files of the local defense lawyer Grant Edwards, and looking into Uncle David's old files
- When Grant catches Daunis looking into him, he lures her into a hotel room and rapes her
- Daunis realizes that Levi may be involved
- Levi's mother, Dana, drugs and abducts Daunis

Part 3:
- Daunis and Jamie are shackled in a trailer
- Levi and his friend, Mike Edwards, are part of the meth ring
- They want to force Daunis to cook meth for them
- It's why Uncle David was killed
- A combination of tribal Elders and tribal police help rescue Daunis and Jamie
- Daunis learns her former coach, Bobby, likely played a major role in the meth ring, possibly as the ringleader
- Daunis dies briefly from her injuries

Part 4:
- Daunis wakes in a hospital
- Dana and Levi have been charged for crimes, though crimes against Daunis are not being charged by the feds (including Grant's assault) because she is now an official tribal member and the crimes occurred on tribal lands
- Mike escaped
- Coach Bobby is getting a plea deal in exchange for being the star witness
- Daunis breaks up with Jamie, since he has things to figure out, but perhaps they will be together someday
- She later gets a postcard, indicating he's attending law school
- Daunis plans to practice traditional medicine someday
- The tribe institutes rules targeted towards punishing drug dealers