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A review by dearbloveme
The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline
adventurous
dark
emotional
informative
reflective
sad
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
5.0
I took forever to start reading this book, and I took ages to finish it. The Marrow Thieves is short, but dense. Following French is as he attempts to escape death, persecution, and his self doubt, is heart breaking and exciting. I put this book down several times, as my fear for French grew.
Cherie Dimaline pens a beautiful prose, in which she fuses the stories of genocides past with the mysticism of Indigenous spirituality to present the story of a survival of a group of Indigenous people.
The hardest part of this book is my knowledge of the plight of people of Indigenous decent. Seeing all those horrors reanimated in this book and mixed with the familiarity of the enemy made this a difficult one for me, and I usually love a good traumatic read.
Cherie Dimaline pens a beautiful prose, in which she fuses the stories of genocides past with the mysticism of Indigenous spirituality to present the story of a survival of a group of Indigenous people.
The hardest part of this book is my knowledge of the plight of people of Indigenous decent. Seeing all those horrors reanimated in this book and mixed with the familiarity of the enemy made this a difficult one for me, and I usually love a good traumatic read.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child death, Colonisation, Death, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Genocide, Racism, Violence, Hate crime, and Physical abuse