Mystery/Thriller -- 3 1/2 stars
Daunis Fontaine, the daughter of a Native American father and a white mother, is spending her last weeks at home on the edge of the Ojibwe reservation, looking forward to heading to college on the other side of the country. When her beloved uncle dies under mysterious circumstances, Daunis changes her plans, choosing to begin her college career closer to home. Then she meets Jamie, and she finds herself pulled into an FBI investigation that is going to make her life very, very complicated. ----- Daunis is supposed to be 18 years old. The idea that the FBI would put her in the middle of a dangerous operation is an (I'm invisible!) elephant that weighs down an otherwise good story, one with some great twists...if only that elephant weren't so big and ungainly. (Yes, we can see you.) Secondary to the main story, Daunis spends a good deal of time explaining Native American folklore, beliefs, stories, festivals to Jamie--information that I found beyond fascinating, even if the execution is a bit clumsy. Daunis' loving relationship with her family is a bonus that brought her ethnicity to life for me, reminding me of how woefully uninformed I am of our Native Americans' culture.
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