

Elatsoe
Author: Darcie Little Badger
Narrator: Kinsale Hueston
Unabridged: 9 hr 1 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Dreamscape Media
Published: 09/10/2020
Categories: Young Adult Fiction, Native American
Author: Darcie Little Badger
Narrator: Kinsale Hueston
Unabridged: 9 hr 1 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Dreamscape Media
Published: 09/10/2020
Categories: Young Adult Fiction, Native American
Darcie Little Badger is a Lipan Apache writer with a PhD in oceanography. Her critically acclaimed debut novel, Elatsoe, was featured in Time as one of the best 100 fantasy books of all time. Elatsoe also won the Locus Award for Best First Novel and was a Nebula, Ignyte, and Lodestar finalist. Her second fantasy novel, A Snake Falls to Earth, received the Newbery Honor, was a Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist, and was longlisted for the National Book Award. Darcie is married to a veterinarian named Taran.
I don't know how to review this one other than to say that it was unlike anything else I've ever read in the best way and you neeeeeeeeed to read it. This book was so well written and surprising and I feel like I'm going to be thinking about it for years to come. I highly recommend! TW: death of a lo......more
I wanted to love this book so much. I couldn't wait to get my hands on it, and I was even pondering possibly teaching it. I mean, it's got ghosts and monsters, Lipan Apache history and culture, and crimes to solve! And, it started out great -- lovely writing, pithy dialogue, and all the rest I was l......more
4.5 stars I freaking adore this book!!! I love the concept, I love Ellie’s character, I love that she’s asexual cause it’s so uncommon to see that rep in a main character! I love how this is fantasy but it’s exactly the kind of ~light fantasy that I enjoy! This was such a unique and fun world to expl......more
This was so disappointing for me, I really wanted to love this. To start with the narrative voice felt very young and it was jarring every time you were reminded that the main character was 17. This whole story would have worked better if it had just embraced being a middle grade story. Next the con......more