rigel's review
2.0
I had to DNF this one (at 22%) because the voice of the narrator was just a bit to childish for me and I couldn't get into the story.
It did get two stars though because it talked about some important topics like the treatment of women and their bodies, as well as the residential schools and how Indigenous Canadian children were kidnapped and forced to attend what were essentially Christian cults (the nuns and priests who ran these places would try to erase these children's culture, torture and essentially brainwash them). The issue was that the author brought up these topics at really strange times, like, when MC and here group of friends were talking about aliens and then all of a sudden one character starts talking about the cruelty of residential schools. They are important topics to discuss, it's just that it seems like they could have been better woven into the story... or just written into a completely different story.
It did get two stars though because it talked about some important topics like the treatment of women and their bodies, as well as the residential schools and how Indigenous Canadian children were kidnapped and forced to attend what were essentially Christian cults (the nuns and priests who ran these places would try to erase these children's culture, torture and essentially brainwash them). The issue was that the author brought up these topics at really strange times, like, when MC and here group of friends were talking about aliens and then all of a sudden one character starts talking about the cruelty of residential schools. They are important topics to discuss, it's just that it seems like they could have been better woven into the story... or just written into a completely different story.
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