D.A.S.

excellent story, characters and info into other cultures

Revisado: 04-20-25

liked all of it. Interesting plot, great settings and characters, plausible plot and good details about Navajo and Hopi and Anazazi and Ute history and culture although I am not really in a position to know how accurate the history is. Best book so far of his. I have read three in order.

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Not depicting real Navajo--so many glaring errors

Revisado: 04-01-25

Why would an author make his main characters and setting on Navajo Reservation and then present so many inaccuracies you feel he is just using the setting and the people for his own purposes. There are no bars on the reservation for example and no such thing as Chaco reservation. It casts doubt on the believability of the whole plot even if the story is fiction.

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Solid story and builds to great climax

Revisado: 02-23-25

You will get used to the narrator so give her a chance

really good story-drags a little in the middle-sometimes author sacrifices moving the plot forward for details of daily life, but it also anchors the story in showing what life is like. I don't think the story is true per se but the overall plot of how caucasian people screwed the Indians over in every possible way most of the time is true-this story is solid plot wise and can also serve to wake up readers who do not understand the history if Wind River and our nation-built on near genocide. Story is hopeful that justice can prevail in some form. Worth a listen.

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slow plot, plot holes good story

Revisado: 02-05-25

takes forever to unfold, author needed to stop repeating things already known to the reader an edit down the length. Not enough about Arapahoe POV and culture. Interesting story. I would have made a different choice as a writer with the last reveal--seems the characters left their fellow characters believing something that was not true and why tell
the whole story if you are going to do that to the characters I hope her other books are better.

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Good solid mystery, great setting, not predictable

Revisado: 12-01-24

A fun story, good characters, interesting setting and culture, good plot arc and not cookie-cutter. Narrator is really bad at male voices. Really awful. Her voice is already low and so she should not try to make lower voices for the men, just speak normally and distinguish them in other ways. It is enough to not want to buy any more audio books so something must be changed in the narration if this author s to be successful with audio. One if the worst narrators I have ever heard on audible.

Main character is sympathetic and modern. Book has humor also. I would like to listen to more but not sure i can take the weird whispery male voices.

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A boring look at me I'm a shaman, full of ego tale

Revisado: 01-25-21

How a story about shamanism could be so boring, I do not know. I practice shamanism, and I kept trying to like it and him. But something about how he tells his story gets in the way of the story being truly absorbing or powerful. If you don't know anything about shamanism it might be entertaining. I think it might be that he's just not a good writer. Too many empty, abstract commentary on his experience, rather than just telling his stories. When he was in story telling mode it was better. But there's too much abstract concentration on his issues, his development, blah blah blah. It reads very much like "look I'm a shaman, look I'm a shaman, look who I've worked with, look who gave me what...." I think he's still full of ego. Plus the narrator sucks. He sounds too young. The old adage in literature: show, don't tell certainly applies here. I'd never go to this guy for healing in a million years.

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Unneccessarily convoluted

Revisado: 12-10-19

Author needs to tighten up the flow if the plot and not keep digressing into the past.

I am fine with complexity and subtlety, but when its not enhancing the unfolding of the mystery and jerking you back and forth in time just to do it-I got so irritated with the artifice I had to quit after Chapter 7. Either write the story or don’t but stop screwing around with your readers. Stephen King does this too and I have stopped reading him also.

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Wanted to kill myself trying to finish this

Revisado: 07-15-19

Oh my god. What a sad story, so sad I wanted to kill myself before it was over. On and on and on...beautiful writing and in depth characters, and plot but it goes on way too long and is over dramatic. The writing is dramatic and intense enough and the music that would play at the beginning and end of some chapters was completely annoying and distracting. The words and the plot did not need the intensification of music AT ALL. I only finished it because I wanted to know what would happen to the main character-the young protagonist which was the only sympathetic character in the whole book. That and the boy's adult friend. The story and plot are good and interesting, but the execution is problematic in that it just goes on way too long. And the story is tragic and sad, to the point where it was just painful to listen to, with no redeeming points. This author needs an editor who will keep him from self-indulgent writing. The pain of listening to it would have been bearable had it not gone on chapter after chapter after chapter and I'm not a person who shies away from dark writing. I will never buy another book by this author--I'd rather not be tortured.

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A story that has no point

Revisado: 07-11-18

Self-indulgent narrative that goes around and around without ever really going anywhere. Yes clever. Yes the author is funny and can turn a phrase. He does character very well but after 9 chapters I had to give up because it just was not interesting. The various conflict build so slowly that I was desperate for something to happen. I felt I was being dragged through his middle aged misery with no point to it. Living in this world just was not worth it.

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Excellent!!!

Revisado: 01-03-18

Great plot, mystery and characters! Unpredictable, believable, great suspense and dramatic. Original and worth the time.

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