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Sisters of the Lost Nation by Nick Medina

19 reviews

ipanzica's review

dark emotional mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Misogyny, Drug abuse, Pedophilia, Death, Drug use, Kidnapping, Trafficking, and Bullying

zombiezami's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Kidnapping, Trafficking, Death, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Confinement, Misogyny, Sexism, Hate crime, Cursing, Bullying, Classism, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Sexual content, Drug abuse, Sexual violence, Drug use, Sexual harassment, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Pedophilia, and Racism

Minor: Colonisation and Genocide

dorynickel's review

dark 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

3.0

Overall this book was really good, but the plot, despite being suspenseful enough to keep me engaged throughout my read, resolves in a disappointing fizzle.

That being said, the protagonist is an engaging character and the book's respect for native culture is unique and impactful. The storytelling and prose are wonderful and I'd gladly read another book by this author.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Trafficking, Transphobia, and Death

Moderate: Rape, Drug use, and Pedophilia

imstephtacular's review

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Bullying, Drug abuse, Addiction, and Drug use

Moderate: Body shaming, Classism, Cursing, Gaslighting, Misogyny, Blood, Alcoholism, Animal death, Grief, Kidnapping, Medical content, Alcohol, Body horror, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Physical abuse, Racism, and Sexism

Minor: Trafficking, Suicidal thoughts, and Vomit

mzynda's review

challenging dark emotional informative mysterious medium-paced

• 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Sexual violence, Death, Grief, Murder, Child abuse, Addiction, Bullying, and Trafficking

alexisgarcia's review

dark mysterious reflective sad tense 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Murder, Gaslighting, Racism, Bullying, Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Alcohol, Death, Sexual content, Drug use, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, and Violence

a_crow_in_the_sky's review

challenging dark emotional 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

4.75

This book was absolutely wonderful with its commentary on a lot of issues. The only thing I felt It lacked was closure. We never get to see if justice is given to the victims and perpetrators which is historically a huge issue in native American crime and violence, but the story that was actually put on the page was absolutely fantastic, thrilling, and complex.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Bullying, Addiction, Drug abuse, Trafficking, Grief, Kidnapping, Toxic friendship, Drug use, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Hate crime, Sexual harassment, Blood, Body shaming, Cultural appropriation, Cursing, Murder, Pedophilia, Self harm, and Sexual content

directorpurry's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

• 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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Bullying, Kidnapping, Animal death, and Violence

Moderate: Colonisation

readingwithcoffee's review against another edition

dark sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

2.0

The ideas in the book are much better then the execution which is boggled down by clunky clumsy writing at times and ironically misogyny for a book inspired by the missing and murdered indigenous women crisis in the Americas.  

A lot of this is microcosm of the two sisters story Medina depicts where the younger sister being harmed and cursed by a man she didn’t know is framed to have been actually caused bc she didn’t explicitly “obey” her moral older sister who told her not to come with her with no real reasoning given etc. that even clearly not intentional sexist framing of violence to women as failing of the girl to woman’s approach to life or not heeding other women is deeply harmful. It’s just a book that would benefit a lot for vastly more feminist thoughts which is disappointing. 

Also while children have done worse things to each other and have deep social thoughts I thought  how they were written fighting or the protagonist didn’t seem how kids would express that violence or commentary which a parts just felt like the author pausing the story to tell us his perspective on various Native American issues instead of something better Integrated into the theme or narrative. The book simply suffers from too much telling vs showing. And also have the protagonist almost never be wrong and making her seem better than other women for not being like them or rejecting anything seem as feminine  including just friendships between girls ending for studs to other things that felt catty. Or how the mother passivity felt less taken seriously as a character or depicted less sympathetically then the father who was damaging himself and property  in arguments ? Like it seemed like a book about women that only held maybe two in any real esteem. 

But I did like how he wrote the favoritism to the son/brother. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Murder, Sexual assault, Body horror, Body shaming, Drug use, Racism, Toxic relationship, Sexism, Lesbophobia, and Sexual harassment

abby271's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder

Moderate: Blood, Bullying, Alcohol, Death, Kidnapping, and Drug use

Minor: Sexual assault, Physical abuse, Child death, Adult/minor relationship, Trafficking, and Rape