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Winter Counts
by David Heska Wanbli Weiden
A sort of genreless read, in my opinion. If I’m waiting until the last eighth of the book for the book to speed up to something like a thriller tempo… The book probably shouldn’t be described as a thriller. Not a mystery novel, because I was onto The Big Reveal™ from the character’s introduction, and I’m usually really bad on picking up these clues. For real this might have been the first time that I identified who the villain was before the bad guy’s monologue.
Writing had a backstitched feel to it, with random scenes sewed into the plot to chew up some page count. For example, lots of “I was going to visit Nathan, but first I headed to…” thrown in. Also a handful of confusing and forced poeticism. A line that stuck out to me in particular (paraphrased, too lazy to scrub through the book): Her touch was like the tail of a comet. Please tell me what this is supposed to mean. She was cold and distant? Her hands were hard and icy? Something that’s experienced once every 77 years?
I’m also not often one to listen to things on audiobook, so my review may be skewed because of this. The narrator’s voice made Marie--who was already pretty insufferable--borderline unbearable. I could go on and on about this. Marie is a total manic pixie dream girl character. She’s smart. She’s rich. She’s a good cook (she solves EVERYBODY’s problems by offering to cook them something?) She’s a goody-two-shoes, law-abiding citizen who just wants to help people! Oh yeah, but don’t worry, she’s also got a rebellious side. And she’s a party animal!
Umm…sure?
Two stars from me only because I was able to learn about Lakota culture and more about the many, many injustices that Native Americans have faced/are facing from the US government.
Writing had a backstitched feel to it, with random scenes sewed into the plot to chew up some page count. For example, lots of “I was going to visit Nathan, but first I headed to…” thrown in. Also a handful of confusing and forced poeticism. A line that stuck out to me in particular (paraphrased, too lazy to scrub through the book): Her touch was like the tail of a comet. Please tell me what this is supposed to mean. She was cold and distant? Her hands were hard and icy? Something that’s experienced once every 77 years?
I’m also not often one to listen to things on audiobook, so my review may be skewed because of this. The narrator’s voice made Marie--who was already pretty insufferable--borderline unbearable. I could go on and on about this. Marie is a total manic pixie dream girl character. She’s smart. She’s rich. She’s a good cook (she solves EVERYBODY’s problems by offering to cook them something?) She’s a goody-two-shoes, law-abiding citizen who just wants to help people! Oh yeah, but don’t worry, she’s also got a rebellious side. And she’s a party animal!
Umm…sure?
Two stars from me only because I was able to learn about Lakota culture and more about the many, many injustices that Native Americans have faced/are facing from the US government.