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When Two Feathers Fell from the Sky by Margaret Verble

4 reviews

snabb1's review against another edition

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mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes

3.75

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kappafrog's review against another edition

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emotional funny hopeful informative mysterious reflective slow-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

4.0

This book got off to a very strong start. I loved the opening chapter, immediately grounding the book's approach to historical fiction in Indigenous storytelling and history. Two Feathers was a great main character. The best parts of the book were the ones from her perspective.

The middle of the book dragged. I didn't enjoy reading from the antagonist's POV, and the book drifted too far from her perspective with side characters. I did like Clive as a character, and Crawford, though their romantic side stories were again taking a lot of time away from Two.

I loved the magical realism in this book. The ghosts were really compelling. This book just had such a refreshing take on the setting, providing windows into a variety of worlds, from early 20th century entertainers' lives to the perspective of the buffalo.

So while the romances and Jack dragged the book down a bit, I thoroughly enjoyed spending time in this world and seeing it from Two's eyes. We need more books like this.

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ameliabee33's review

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dark emotional sad slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

This wasn't so much a telling of characters and their lives as it was a history of the land and the people had have and currently live there. There are many stories that readers are introduced to, and the timeline of the histories is never linear. Each chapter can contain multiple povs from Two Feathers, Crawford, Clive, Little Elk, and that creepy redheaded guy (I refuse to remember his name). These people all are connected to the land that currently, the 1920s, houses Glendale Park Zoo in Nashville, Tennessee. The land is somewhere that death tends to have always been, and Two Feathers and her companions come very close to it.

It was a very slow, sad book. I found it a bit difficult to get into the story, until about 3/4 of the way in. Two Feathers was an easy main chatacter to like, her sense of humor came out every now and then which I really liked. She was overall, just sad as a character. Her life, her history, and her people definitely painted a picture of what it was like to be an Indigenous woman in the U.S. in the 20s. I loved the parts where she visited with the animals in the Zoo. Clive and Crawford I had a little harder time liking, but their stories were generally interesting. There was also a very brief encounter with magical realism in the form of the ghost, Little Elk. He was sort of the comic relief of the entire book. I'm glad that the animals of the zoo get justice in the end and that the crew is there to look out for them.

There is also an explicit scene about 25% of the way into the book, so be warned. Please read the trigger warnings of this book because there are graphic scenes of sexual content, racism, alcoholism, death, etc.

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caseythereader's review

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adventurous dark funny mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

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