This was a very difficult read for many reasons. It is very slow-paced and a good list of trigger warnings is sorely needed. All the characters have experienced abuses and traumas and at times reading this feels like going through second-hand traumas. I definitely believe that Indigenous Peoples in this capitalist yt supremacist society have gone through too much and all deserve better, and it's important for non Indigenous folks to read Indigenous stories. But I honestly struggled with the amount of traumas this book had. One of the main POVs was a cop who didn't end up challenging the system and that plus the ending

where the perpetrator of a sexual abuse incident was caught and put in jail

make the book dangerously close to copaganda. Even if the Métis cop character had a very silly and racist partner who proved to be a great example of the uselessness of cops and the justice system.