Reviews tagging 'Abandonment'

Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley

41 reviews

margaret_k30's review

dark emotional mysterious reflective 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Sexual assault, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Drug abuse, Racism, Death of parent, and Addiction

Moderate: Racial slurs, Sexism, Vomit, Rape, Physical abuse, Drug use, Sexual violence, Violence, and Abandonment

Minor: Cultural appropriation, Car accident, Murder, Forced institutionalization, Pregnancy, Pedophilia, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Medical content, Kidnapping, Domestic abuse, and Body shaming

eliselerario's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Gun violence, and Grief

Moderate: Car accident, Addiction, Sexual content, Murder, Kidnapping, Alcohol, Violence, Stalking, Rape, and Drug use

Minor: Abandonment, Toxic relationship, and Racial slurs

mckiheather's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

I was invested from start to finish, partly I think due to the story and partly to the storytelling and Daunis’s perspective. I think Daunis’s perspective and voice as someone who distrusts law enforcement, as just a person wanting to help her community and tribe and using her own history and knowledge to do it, make it much more complex and engaging than a typical crime-solving drama.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation, Gun violence, Grief, Toxic relationship, Classism, and Violence

Moderate: Addiction, Blood, Cultural appropriation, Death, Forced institutionalization, Cursing, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Medical content, Misogyny, Murder, Racism, Rape, Sexual content, and Trafficking

Minor: Suicide, Abandonment, Alcohol, Car accident, and Racial slurs

galexy_brain's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious 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? No

4.0

What a page-turner! I needed to know more. I appreciated the story's invitation into the lives of indigenous folks on a reservation and learning more about Anishnaabe language and culture. I found

her brother being involved in the drug ring predictable because Daunis idolized him the whole time, even when he was evidently shitty in some ways. I also found Daunis's experience of grief to fall flat partially, but I'm no expert on how people process grief. It's just that as a reader I didn't really feel her grief very strongly, or find it particularly sad when Lily died, since we barely got to know her beforehand. I also really wanted to find out what was going on with the Little People but they never reappeared.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Gun violence, Murder, and Suicide

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Car accident, Death, Addiction, and Grief

Minor: Alcoholism, Blood, Racism, Alcohol, Drug use, Infidelity, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Sexism, Violence, Classism, Death of parent, Abandonment, Confinement, Drug abuse, Kidnapping, Medical content, Toxic relationship, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, and Xenophobia

batwinggoth's review against another edition

emotional informative sad medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Death, Grief, Racial slurs, Rape, Sexual assault, Kidnapping, Murder, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Racism, Violence, Vomit, Domestic abuse, and Gun violence

Moderate: Religious bigotry, Cultural appropriation, Cursing, Car accident, Abandonment, Medical content, Alcoholism, Colonisation, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Toxic relationship, Racial slurs, Misogyny, Classism, Bullying, and Blood

therainbowshelf's review

adventurous dark emotional 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? It's complicated

5.0

That got intense! I didn't read the description of this book before diving in, so everything that happened was a surprise. I really enjoyed this read, and loved the characters. I especially enjoyed getting to know Daunis and seeing how herany worlds connected and guided her through being an informant in her quest to take out the meth destroying her community.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Medical content, Racism, Colonisation, Cultural appropriation, Death, Drug abuse, Addiction, Injury/Injury detail, Car accident, Blood, Classism, Dementia, Grief, Gun violence, Sexual violence, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Murder, Rape, Sexual assault, and Violence

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Alcohol, Child abuse, and Abandonment

Minor: Homophobia

Murdered and missing girls and women

giulsfloris's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

I picked this book because of the beautiful cover and was initially disappointed to find out that this wasn’t a fantasy novel as I believed, but I eventually decided to keep reading and… well, let me tell you why I’m glad I read this book!!

Plot:
This mystery ya novel isn’t really based on a true story, but it does feel like it.
Daunis, the protagonist, is the daughter of the late Levi Firekeeper Sr and his former white girlfriend, Daunis’s mom, making our protagonist half-native and half-white.
Daunis was only a few months old when Levi Firekeeper Sr had a son with a young woman named Dana.
When Daunis, her brother Levi, her best friend Lily and the new guy in town, Jamie, all go to a party together, everything falls apart…


Why I stayed:
This novel is beautifully written.
It took me a while to read the first few chapters, mostly because I was waiting for something magical to happen (yeah, I was so sure this would be a fantasy book) and was disappointed when it didn’t, but then, as the story progressed, I literally couldn’t put it down.
The pace was amazing and the information and details that Angeline Boulley inserted were just enough to let me know more about the Ojibwe culture without confusing me (I’m white, and English isn’t my first language).
Daunis has to face several challenges and she does it with deep compassion and thoughtfulness. I appreciate the author so much for bringing this story to life and I am grateful I got to read it.


Trigger warning: r*pe and se*ual as*ault
There was a moment in particular that triggered my ptsd and made me uncomfortable. I was expecting it because I checked the trigger warnings, even if this one was mostly listed in the “moderate” section and not the “graphic”, but I’m thankful I checked.
The author wanted to highlight the lack of justice whenever crimes are perpetuated against native women and how the native community is neglected. This is a perspective we rarely think about and isn’t talked about enough.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Kidnapping, Rape, Death, Drug abuse, and Drug use

Moderate: Death of parent, Medical trauma, Abandonment, Violence, and Addiction

ashleyjo817's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Kidnapping, Murder, Violence, Gun violence, Rape, Sexual assault, Colonisation, Racism, and Abandonment

Minor: Body shaming, Vomit, and Injury/Injury detail

katelbr's review against another edition

adventurous dark informative tense 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? No

4.0

I was riveted and deeply invested for 3/4 of this book. It’s fantastic, informative, and speaks of the connection between elders and the community.

however, I found the entire conspiracy to be too much. I didn’t feel there was enough evidence throughout that certain people were involved, and they were comically evil. They escalated to kidnapping daunis with very little reason.

before and after that was excellently written, and I believed it was from the mouth of a 19 year old who, though wise beyond her years, has a hint of immaturity. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Drug abuse, and Murder

Moderate: Racism

Minor: Car accident, Abandonment, Cultural appropriation, Gun violence, Medical trauma, and Sexual assault

____emily____'s review against another edition

informative mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Drug use, and Death

Moderate: Gun violence, Racism, Sexual assault, and Addiction

Minor: Abandonment