the fact this could’ve been a short story of <100 pages + the inspiration behind it all being residential schools just tanks this book bAH 

I’d heard so much about this book so unfortunately, i had high expectations that I don’t feel were met. While it was well written & engaging enough, it felt extremely repetitive. Found myself by the end saying yes! They’re just children! Yes, the world is prejudiced & fucked up! Blah blah! Hate is bad! It just felt like a ton of recycling the same paragraphs over and over using a synonym generator aka the same yet slightly different. It seems to be a sweet story at face value, but the mix of the repetitive nature & overhype made it hard to not be bummed. Then once I finished the story & dove a bit deeper, learning that it’s essentially the romanticization of an effort to assimilate indigenous children makes it even worse. 

The face value post reading the story, I was giving it 2.75✨ the deeper dive makes me give it a 1 the fuck!