Instead, she humanizes them (and their painful contradictions) by including nostalgic images that showcase the love shared among Cady, her two cousins closest in age, and Gat, the Heathcliff-esque figure she has always loved.
Brilliantly, Lockhart resists simply crucifying the Sinclairs, which might make the family’s foreshadowed tragedy predictable or even satisfying. Cady’s fairy-tale retellings are dark, as is the personal tragedy that has led to her examination of the skeletons in the Sinclair castle’s closets its rent turns out to be extracted in personal sacrifices. But this is no sanitized, modern Disney fairy tale this is Cinderella with her stepsisters’ slashed heels in bloody glass slippers. Reunited each summer by the family patriarch on his private island, his three adult daughters and various grandchildren lead charmed, fairy-tale lives (an idea reinforced by the periodic inclusions of Cady’s reworkings of fairy tales to tell the Sinclair family story). Kinew (Anishinaabe) has crafted a story that balances heart-pounding action scenes with textured family and community relationships, all seamlessly undergirded by storytelling that conveys an Indigenous community’s past-and the vibrant future that follows from young people’s active, creative engagement with their culture.Ī thrilling, high-tech page-turner with deep roots.Ī devastating tale of greed and secrets springs from the summer that tore Cady’s life apart.Ĭady Sinclair’s family uses its inherited wealth to ensure that each successive generation is blond, beautiful and powerful. Feng and Bugz experience mutual attraction-and mistrust-and their relationship in and out of the Floraverse develops hesitantly under a shadow of suspected betrayal. One of them, Feng, ends up leaving China under a cloud of government suspicion and moving to her reservation to live with his aunt, the new doctor they are Muslim Uighurs who have their own history of forced reeducation and cultural erasure. Cheered on by legions of fans, she battles against Clan:LESS, a group of angry, misogynistic male gamers. Yes, her ’Versona has a slimmed-down figure-but Bugz harnesses her passion for the natural world and her Anishinaabe heritage to build seemingly unbeatable defenses, especially her devoted, lovingly crafted Thunderbird and snake/panther Mishi-pizhiw. Socially awkward Bugz, by contrast, feels more successful in the virtual gaming world of the Floraverse, where she has amassed tremendous power. In the near-future real world, Bugz’s family has clout in the community-her mom is their first modern-day woman chief, her father’s a highly admired man, and her older brother is handsome and accomplished. A teen navigates different worlds: real and virtual, colonized and Indigenous.
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