2020 Popsugar Reading Challenge: A book set in a country beginning with "C"

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The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


The Future, not to many decades from now. Climate change has caused upheaval - oceans have risen, it rains almost all the time. And a plague has brought more than sickness. Those infected lose the ability to dream - causing the plague of madness. However, one group of people seem immune - those of the First Nations. In an attempt to save the majority, the First Nations people are rounded up and sent to "schools", where their very marrow is harvested in hopes to infuse it into the inflicted. But those that get sent to the schools are never seen again.

Francis, aka Frenchy, finds himself alone after his parents and brother sacrifice themselves to save him from the "Recruiters". He spends 5 years with a new family - other fugitives and refugees on the run in the Canadian Wilderness, avoiding the Recruiters. However, when one of their own is taken, they have to find a way to save her and perhaps their entire People.

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This book was recommended on a FaceBook group for the PopSugar Reading Challenge Category "A book that takes place in a Country that begins with "C", and as I needed a book for that catgory, I borrowed it from the library and really enjoyed the story. The only thing keeping it from a 5 star for me, is that the ending was just a tad flat, good but didn't have the full sense of closure that I would have liked.

I think I will be keeping an eye out for more of this up and coming author.



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