“Some boats are made for the river and some for the ocean. And there are some who can go anywhere because they always know the way home.”
This book is about Daunis Fontaine, a biracial unenrolled tribal member, meaning she doesn’t feel like she fits in in her hometown or the nearby Ojibwe reservation. However, her family experiences tragedy, and Daunis decides to stay and care for her family, which is how she ends up meeting Jamie, a new recruit on her brother’s hockey team. Later, Daunis witnesses a murder, after which she agrees to go undercover in a criminal investigation, but deaths and deception just keep happening…
I absolutely love this book. I’ve read it a few times but never got around to reviewing it until now. It’s honestly just incredible. The blend of mystery and realistic fiction is incredible and makes it so real. With most mystery books, they don’t feel super real or like they could happen since there generally aren’t random detectives walking around and stumbling over bodies, but this book didn’t have that. Instead, it had characters that you could relate to, an incredible writing style, and it was scarily real.
No matter how many times I’ve read this book, it’s just so incredibly good and well written. A lot of times, books that you come back too seem worse the second, third, and fourth times but this one just gets better. It’s actually just amazing, everyone should read it, 7 stars (out of 5). I wholeheartedly recommend it.