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A review by dame_samara
Rose Petal Graves by Olivia Wildenstein
1.0
DNF: 18%
I was cautious going into this just based on the Synopsis, white people writing indigenous people, has a history of being done poorly and honestly I was already weary just from the line "a tattooed Native man, who wasn’t supposed to be alive"
But I recalled enjoying, Of Wicked Blood, so I thought I'd give it a shot.
It wasn't worth it, The poor taste in my mouth from the synopsis was a warning for the things to come.
The writing was dull at best, it was hard to continually stay engaged.
Then we get to this new dude, grilling Cat about her name. Specifically questioning the fact that is Hopi in origin rather then from her Gottwa. But then the text makes it sounds like her mother's name Nova is from her Tribe's origin but if you search google for a translation such as this you find a lot of "In Native American the meaning..." as well as posts saying the meaning "Chases Butterflies" has been previously misattributed to Hopi Origins.
I am white so I don't feel like I have the right to speak on whether it's right or wrong to create a new Native American tribe for the purposes of a story or not.
I will say that it wasn't in reality necessary, you want to tell me a bunch of white people came to inhabit the Wisconsin in the early 1800s that were fae, stuff happened, they "died", got buried and forgotten about. Something that is completely feasible in the course of 200 years.
I was cautious going into this just based on the Synopsis, white people writing indigenous people, has a history of being done poorly and honestly I was already weary just from the line "a tattooed Native man, who wasn’t supposed to be alive"
But I recalled enjoying, Of Wicked Blood, so I thought I'd give it a shot.
It wasn't worth it, The poor taste in my mouth from the synopsis was a warning for the things to come.
The writing was dull at best, it was hard to continually stay engaged.
Then we get to this new dude, grilling Cat about her name. Specifically questioning the fact that is Hopi in origin rather then from her Gottwa. But then the text makes it sounds like her mother's name Nova is from her Tribe's origin but if you search google for a translation such as this you find a lot of "In Native American the meaning..." as well as posts saying the meaning "Chases Butterflies" has been previously misattributed to Hopi Origins.
I am white so I don't feel like I have the right to speak on whether it's right or wrong to create a new Native American tribe for the purposes of a story or not.
I will say that it wasn't in reality necessary, you want to tell me a bunch of white people came to inhabit the Wisconsin in the early 1800s that were fae, stuff happened, they "died", got buried and forgotten about. Something that is completely feasible in the course of 200 years.