A review by ljrinaldi
Fire Starters by Jen Storm
4.0
There seems to be more here, as though we have come in in the second act of a four act play. This doesn't make this a bad story. Life is sort of like that. We don't always know what's came before, and what happened after. It feels as though we don't know, and might never know everything that has happened in this community. How did the Uncle die? Was ther foul play? Why does the police dislike the native people?
The story involves two brothers who are accused of burning down the local gas station/store even though they didn't do it, and there is no evidence they did. The boy who did do it figures it will all work out, and that it doens't matter because it is just Indians, after all.
Well written, very raw story written by a First Nations writer, so we are seeing things from the other side, and perhaps that is why others have said that some things seemed odd.
As others have mentioned, the ending seemed to be weak, but it may be just that we didn't understand what it meant, and that perhaps there is another, second book to come? Or, as I said above, it is probably closer to what life is like.
Thanks to Netgalley for making this book available for an honest review.
The story involves two brothers who are accused of burning down the local gas station/store even though they didn't do it, and there is no evidence they did. The boy who did do it figures it will all work out, and that it doens't matter because it is just Indians, after all.
Well written, very raw story written by a First Nations writer, so we are seeing things from the other side, and perhaps that is why others have said that some things seemed odd.
As others have mentioned, the ending seemed to be weak, but it may be just that we didn't understand what it meant, and that perhaps there is another, second book to come? Or, as I said above, it is probably closer to what life is like.
Thanks to Netgalley for making this book available for an honest review.