Did just read a YA dystopian novel and like it?? Can't wait for this important book to start flooding classrooms across Canada. ( )

Excellent: powerful narrator, diverse characters, passionate Indigenous lens telling a story of past and future survival through genocide. A post-apocalyptic setting that's disturbing in a way we need to hear, but still accessible to those who don't like "sci-fi." I'd love to see this as a key part of the high school lit curriculum. ( )

This book is set in a post-apocalyptic future where indigenous people are being hunted down for their bone marrow. This is because nobody is able to have good dreams anymore, and indigenous people's bone marrow allows others to have dreams. Overall I thought that this book was really interesting at the start, however, it started getting confusing and hard to follow near the end. ( )

Narrated by Meegwun Fairbrother. In a dystopian North American future, non-indigenous people have lost the ability to dream, which has an impact on their health. Only those of indigenous background still dream and they are pursued by "recruiters" to harvest their bone marrow which offers the cure. After Frenchie's brother sacrifices himself to the recruiters so Frenchie can escape, Frenchie joins a band of other Indians on the run for their lives, never certain whom they can trust. Fairbrother performs with the authenticity this story demands and gives space to the most poetic lines. ( )

I loved Empire of Wild, and so I had high hopes for this one. But it did not do it for me, at all. I found the story felt very undeveloped, as though it were still a draft, vs a fully fleshed novel. ( )