However, Miig's story was well done along with some other scenes with Wab. This choice along with the lack of interesting vocabulary made it seem dumbed down for an extremely young audience. The author refused to dive deep into the atrocities of the new residential schools or the trauma of most characters reflected in their actions aside from their "coming-to stories". There is little panic, mania, depression or general distress for people who believe they are being hunted. There is little focus on the mental health of the protagonists and it seems as if many of them act with sound mind aside from some stressful situations here and there. I believe that the explanation for their barbaric behaviour was their lack of dreams leading to depression or madness and yet they do not behave erratically or show signs of depression throughout the story. But, this book has very little depth to most characters, including Frenchie, has some uncomfortable scenes with Rose and Frenchie, introduces "magical powers" extremely late to the novel after suggesting that the dream and marrow connection had some scientific reason, the antagonists are one-dimensional and the important themes are not given a new or profound perspective. I feel a bit bad critiquing this book as there should be more stories about Indigenous people especially for young people. We also watched the author's interview where she claimed that this was her first YA novel and sadly, I found it was evident in the writing. Was asked to read this for a class and I found it alright.
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