Reviews tagging 'Car accident'

Firekeeper's Daughter, by Angeline Boulley

259 reviews

noraconradcom's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful mysterious sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse

Moderate: Gun violence, Sexual assault, and Drug abuse

Minor: Drug use, Misogyny, Child death, Death of parent, Dementia, Drug abuse, Grief, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Violence, Cultural appropriation, Death, Kidnapping, Car accident, Murder, Sexual violence, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, and Physical abuse

megob's review against another edition

I really loved the book, up until the part where I stopped.

Spoiler

I totally understand that books can't all have a happy ending, and that this ending--had I read it--probably wouldn't be *un*happy, but I'm disappointed that that's how it went. Yeah, I was surprised, but I wouldn't have read the book knowing the ending. And that kinda ruins it for me.

 

First half of the book gets 5 stars. Third quarter gets 4 stars. Last 6% gets a DNF 🤷

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Gun violence, Grief, Gaslighting, Addiction, Violence, Sexual harassment, Rape, Racism, Car accident, Confinement, Colonisation, Drug abuse, Death, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Medical trauma, Dysphoria, Sexual assault, Kidnapping, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child death, Gore, Cultural appropriation, Emotional abuse, and Domestic abuse

Minor: Infidelity, Panic attacks/disorders, and Police brutality

If you're looking for spoilers based on content warnings.

Spoiler

the main character experiences or sees all the things listed above happen in her community. Multiple deaths throughout the book, many of which the reader is present for. Descriptions of her grief after these deaths. Neurodivergency affecting her experience of grief and understanding of the situations. A gun is directed at the main character. Descriptions of those in the throes of addiction. Graphic description of sexual assault with "fade to black" followed by internal and external gaslighting and the suggestion that this was not his first assault. Drugging and kidnapping resulting in confinement and forced compliance with illegal activity. Car accident follows which results in medical trauma and death.

At that point I stopped reading, so I'm not certain if anyone was brought to justice but it seems like they would be. Putting it all out there it seems like a horrible story, but it's really really not! The pacing and atmosphere of the first half of the book are very different from the last half.

empathephant's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

I really enjoyed it overall, but the pacing was hard. It took a long time to read because I kept falling into slumps.

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Gun violence, and Rape

Moderate: Medical content, Racism, Kidnapping, Addiction, Confinement, and Murder

Minor: Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Forced institutionalization, Death of parent, Car accident, Colonisation, and Alcohol

This book heavily involves police work. No direct physical brutality is displayed, but the emotional and other consequences of using outside policing in a native community is apparent. In the end,

Spoiler

several characters do not get the justice they are seeking, and characters who have committed crimes are not treated equally by the judicial system. Murdered and missing indigenous women are discussed. The story ends hopefully, but shows there is a lot of work to be done.

.

galexy_brain's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

What a page-turner! I needed to know more. I appreciated the story's invitation into the lives of indigenous folks on a reservation and learning more about Anishnaabe language and culture. I found

Spoiler

her brother being involved in the drug ring predictable because Daunis idolized him the whole time, even when he was evidently shitty in some ways. I also found Daunis's experience of grief to fall flat partially, but I'm no expert on how people process grief. It's just that as a reader I didn't really feel her grief very strongly, or find it particularly sad when Lily died, since we barely got to know her beforehand. I also really wanted to find out what was going on with the Little People but they never reappeared.

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Gun violence, Murder, and Suicide

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Car accident, Death, Addiction, and Grief

Minor: Alcoholism, Blood, Racism, Alcohol, Drug use, Infidelity, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Sexism, Violence, Classism, Death of parent, Abandonment, Confinement, Drug abuse, Kidnapping, Medical content, Toxic relationship, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, and Xenophobia

thaliareads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative mysterious tense slow-paced

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

4.0

Overall I very much enjoyed the mystery at the core of the story. At least in audiobook form there was a few times I got confused as to what had been actually said/what was just in Daunis' head as fantasy. However, the audiobook was excellent for all more unique pronunciations both with being in the UP and with introducing what to most readers is an unfamiliar language. I will say the narrator did mess up the pronunciation of pastys (coming from someone who spent 4 years in the UP and who's best friend is a UP local) pronouncing them the way you would pasties - which are very different. 

For me this was a fun and worthwhile read and while I had inklings about who might be behind the mystery, there were too many moving parts for me to guess before the culprits were revealed. 

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Grief, Addiction, Medical trauma, Medical content, Car accident, Blood, Adult/minor relationship, Drug use, Death of parent, Kidnapping, Sexual assault, Rape, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Gun violence, and Death

Moderate: Cultural appropriation, Sexual content, and Murder

Minor: Infidelity

This book deals with a lot of heavy topics that I can't possibly put in context without spoiling the book since they are all interwoven. However, I'll do my best to provide some basics. First, this book is obviously about the mystery surrounding the increased appearance of meth in the MC's community. Therefore lots of specifics of drug use and production and the effect of drug use on the community are discussed. Second, any sexual content - including the sexual assault - are described in detail leading up to the incident and then fade to black. In consensual situations there will be kissing but that's where the description stops. Obviously, in the case of the assault there are more long lasting impacts on mental health and well being. There are multiple victims to the drug problem throughout the book - either directly or indirectly - that would classify as murder and leave the MC with a lot of grief to work through. The MC also gets into multiple situations where she ends up injured in different capacities - from bloody to internal - and it is typically described in detail due to the character's interest in healing, health, biology, and science in general. The MC also has an elderly relative that has been in a coma and continues to be throughout the book. She spends a lot of time visiting them and that means it's brought up frequently. Finally, there are characters in the book that culturally appropriate the MC, or others around her. Typically she will note this and point it out for the reader.

aasiy4h's review against another edition

adventurous funny inspiring medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

i went into this book with complete opposite expectations to what i got. there were many times within the first half when i felt like putting it down solely because of the writing style. it just felt too basic for me i just didnt like it. but when the pace and plot started picking up it got better and easier to read but it still just wasnt a book i would have picked up based on the plot. i just loved the cover lol. so really it just comes down to my own personal opinion but it wasnt the best for me so its an average 3/5 stars.

---

Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Kidnapping

Minor: Car accident, Death, Death of parent, Body shaming, Pedophilia, Rape, and Sexual assault

mcynx's review against another edition

emotional informative tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.5

How did so much happen to her in such a short amount of time?? How did it escalate that fast???

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Drug abuse, and Grief

Moderate: Car accident, Sexual content, and Rape

jerolium's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

The representation in this book is so amazing and the fact that it doesn't hude the dark side of their community is amazing. It doesn't hude real things that gcould happen while investigating and it was sad. Also it was funny because daunis hated Jamie one chapter then. Hated him the other. then lived him again💀

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Car accident, Death, Rape, and Injury/Injury detail

onemamareads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

Read my full review here: https://onemamassummer.weebly.com/book-reviews/firekeepers-daughter

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Car accident, Self harm, Injury/Injury detail, Gun violence, Gaslighting, Death, Confinement, Sexual harassment, Murder, Rape, Drug abuse, Alcohol, Racial slurs, Toxic relationship, Sexism, Grief, Sexual assault, Drug use, and Blood

magneto's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.5

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Kidnapping, Addiction, Drug abuse, Rape, Car accident, Racism, and Sexual assault

Minor: Medical content