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A review by caseythecanadianlesbrarian
Kynship by Daniel Heath Justice
4.0
I made a terrible mistake everyone. I had Kynship, the first book in the fantasy trilogy The Way of Thorn and Thunder by Daniel Heath Justice, sitting in the closet at my dad’s house for like two years and I only read it a few weeks ago! I had originally bought it for a course on gender, feminism, and Indigenous literature, but we ended up not covering it in the class, which is really too bad because I would have discovered this novel and Daniel Heath Justice so much earlier!
There’s so much to like about this book. It’s just phenomenal fantasy from a queer and Indigenous (Cherokee) perspective. If you like fantasy, you really cannot go wrong with Kynship. Although it’s published by a small Native press in Ontario, I found the whole series at the public library in Vancouver, so it’s not even hard to get a hold of! It’s the imaginative world-building, action, and suspense you can usually expect from fantasy, except with queer people, women, and (implicitly) Native folks at the forefront. What is not to love, I ask you?
See the rest of my review here: https://caseythecanadianlesbrarian.wordpress.com/2015/05/03/a-review-of-daniel-heath-justices-kynship-the-queer-indigenous-feminist-fantasy-novel-you-never-knew-you-wanted-so-bad/
There’s so much to like about this book. It’s just phenomenal fantasy from a queer and Indigenous (Cherokee) perspective. If you like fantasy, you really cannot go wrong with Kynship. Although it’s published by a small Native press in Ontario, I found the whole series at the public library in Vancouver, so it’s not even hard to get a hold of! It’s the imaginative world-building, action, and suspense you can usually expect from fantasy, except with queer people, women, and (implicitly) Native folks at the forefront. What is not to love, I ask you?
See the rest of my review here: https://caseythecanadianlesbrarian.wordpress.com/2015/05/03/a-review-of-daniel-heath-justices-kynship-the-queer-indigenous-feminist-fantasy-novel-you-never-knew-you-wanted-so-bad/