A review by christygoldsmith
The Removed by Brandon Hobson

2.0

I wanted to love this book because the concept is beautiful, and I've been craving more modern Native American stories. The beginning was timely and an effective catapult into the story of the Echota family, but then it sort of screeched to a halt. I think the main problem for me was that there were too many threads that never came together--there was the police violence, the Cherokee mythologies, the addiction, the alzheimer's, the family drama. There were just too many threads that I lost focus and wasn't motivated to finish the story. I DNF'ed it at 60%. Maybe I'll pick it back up one day.

For the record, I did love this line: "Kansas. It's a flat and desolate area of cockeyed mouth breathers."