A review by avalinahsbooks
The Huge Hunter, Or, the Steam Man of the Prairies by Edward S. Ellis

1.0

I know it was written in 1868, but it completely dehumanizes Native Americans, has awful nationalist stereotypes and weird ideas about disability. I also know that those were the widespread notions at the time, but perhaps we should just close the page and leave those notions in the aforementioned century. Yeah, the steam man is cool for its time - but the cool doesn't outweigh the very uncool problematic parts. I feel compromised and ashamed by merely having read it :/ awful.

I got this book on NetGalley in exchange for my honest review, and as you can see, receiving it for free has not affected my opinion.