Reviews

The Grass Dancer by Susan Power

lucyisaula's review

slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.75

kristaad's review

dark hopeful reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

margotrizzi's review

School

stinsylinson's review

5.0

This book was absolutely wonderful. The imagery was so powerful, I felt like I could see every single detail of the stories as they unfolded. I loved the way we moved backward in time and the stories wove together, so that when we came back to the present we understood everything about what was happening.

indukisreading's review

emotional hopeful reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

robynrussell's review

5.0

Beautiful prose. A series of interconnected stories moving backwards through time to paint a picture of how actions can have consequences that transcend lifetimes.

bobby_cav's review

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.25

ashleylynn's review

3.25

You are dancing a rebellion. 

cass_keeps_reading's review

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

black_girl_reading's review

5.0

Susan Power’s The Grass Dancer was a gift of a book, and the joy was entirely in the unwrapping of it. This novel, about ill fated ancestral love in the time of attempted genocide, of how spirit and medicine and knowledge and story follows us across generations, about how, while parts of our lives are so within our control, so many other parts are predetermined by circumstance and history and what lives in our blood. Every chapter in this book explored different characters in a Sioux community over a century, all living their lives, but also all so deeply deeply impacted by what came before. You really had to sit with this book and take you where it wanted you to go, and that was not ever a place that was wrapped up in closure or certainty. Spirit walked through these pages, there was no veil, and I loved wading through its power and its own ways that, while they are so present, are also not entirely knowable. This book glowed with life, it was heavy, and it was rich. It was a whole story even though it was not a flowing narrative. I loved this book enormously, and I’m so glad it came into my life.