Thanks to Netgalley for the arc.

I’m so thankful Dimaline for listening to her readers and continuing French’s story. After finishing this, I hope she’ll do it again!

The story picks up right where it ended in The Marrow Thieves, but follows as French realizes he was abducted by Recruiters and taken to a school. Chaos ensues as he experiences horrors that he never could have imagined, including coming face to face with the brother he thought was dead.

Rose cannot wait for news and starts out for the nearest school with Derrick in tow and stumbles upon a different house of horrors. Once the rest of the group receives news of French and what the schools plan to do, they must run even if it means leaving Rose behind. The situations Rose and Miig’s group encounter were hard for me to wrap my mind around, and the ending seemed rushed.

Reading this story as more and more mass graves are being discovered at the sites of former Residential Schools in both Canada and the US made the horrors of this dystopian story even more chilling.