A review by mmccombs
Sisters of the Lost Nation by Nick Medina

dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

3.0

You ever recommend a book for your bookclub’s pick of the month and then you… don’t like it much at all? I was very excited by the premise of this story, and I didn’t necessarily dislike it, but I just don’t think everything came together. In my opinion, the writing was not great, the sheer amount of stilted similes drove me up the wall and it felt very juvenile. I don’t think the structure totally worked, I understand why he did the time jumps but it mostly caused confusion and interrupted the tension of the plot for me. I also didn’t really believe in Anna’s character, there was something both too old and too young about her, she was weirdly good at everything. I did love her Two Spirit self discovery, though I think that could have been explored more. The story telling aspect was really interesting, I think more could have been done with the supernatural horror (because this was marketed as a horror I expected a bit more). The ending also just didn’t feel quite right, it was rushed and felt slightly unresolved. I think there is something great here, but I think I’d recommend Firekeeper’s Daughter for a rez mystery about missing and murdered Indigenous women before this one. 
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