A review by lady_valhella
The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline

dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

This nook was amazing. It was fast. It was horrific fiction that could so easily be reality. One thing it for sure taught me was that the language that was stolen from is mine to reclaim! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cultural appropriation, Racism, Violence, Abandonment, Drug use, Hate crime, Trafficking, Body horror, Colonisation, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Child death, Death, Genocide, Grief, and Rape

I marked all of these topics as graphic not because the imagery is always real but because the implication is. Also, some of the imagery is very real, very violent and very disturbing but it is a story that should be read because the atrocities inflicted on the indigenous peoples of the western hemisphere is this real. We must all bare witness, at the very least.