2.5 stars. Look I really wanted to like this book it was recommended in a booktok video by an indie bookstore the plot sound amazing and I wanted to diversify my bookshelf.

But nope, the author is clearly not a teenager and the way she portrays them is just cringe, the way they talked and express themselves. They were both too adult sounding in some stuff and clueless in others. Like no one does that

And then the plot was week it was a lot of points trying to be made im all for anti blackness, anti capitalism, colonialism and most importantly intersectionality but it just felt messy and over the top in not a good way.

This does not mean that I will invalidate this story. Having indigenous authors and talking about the missing people is important, just this book didn’t do it for me and it took me 20 days to read a 300 page YA book I would dread picking it up, the only reason I didn’t DNF was because I wanted to know what happened to Kiki and it was the most anticlimactic thing in the entire world, like they figure it out in a night, call someone to confirm (that by the way how are we not going to held her accountable for the dumbest shit ever, this character made me so angry like wtf) and then show up have like a 5 page conversation and that’s it?? Back to being a happy family and lets not talk about how traumatized she must be??

Ok apparently I had more feelings that I expected so I will stop. Anyway not for me I will go look for something else.