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After finishing this short but sweet kit, I feel it added to the reading experience and provided lots of topics for discussion among readers.

The author's interview is really great. It was nice to know the person behind the story, and I loved the insight into her writing process.

I think content warnings are always appreciated. We can never be too prepared when starting a new novel and when it comes to triggers it's better to be overly aware.

The other elements in the book club kit, such as the playlist, further book recommendations and recipes, would be perfect for an in-person book club. The extra book recommendations were great too. The reader questions opened up a discussion about the characters, plot and setting. I appreciated the ways in which we as readers could support Indigenous communities, something I previously wasn't aware of.

The only thing that may not be successful is presuming people are attending in-person book clubs when in reality, social media and virtual book clubs are more popular and prevalent in the book community, especially since Covid-19. The digital space among readers has exploded, so I think targeting the online community is very beneficial.

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Thank you for letting me read this kit, It was nice to get more insight from the author of the book..

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Love this tool! It’s my turn to host book club this summer and I’m feeling more than ready with this kit. I had already read Firekeeper’s Daughter and chose it for my book club pick. I am so looking forward to the discussion and was thrilled to find this kit to share author insight, questions, and further reading suggestions. Thank you for this!

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Great for my book club! Looking forward to reading Firekeeper's Daughter and using this Book Club kit to guide discussions. Thanks, NetGalley!

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**I received a free ARC of this novel in exchange for an honest review.**

It was my first time opening a book club kit. I figured it would just be a questionnaire set of questions about the book, but I was positively surprised to find so much more, including free, beautiful bookmarks. I really enjoyed this download.

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This novel easily contends for my top 5 favorite books that I read in 2023. There were so many topics covered but they were all handled and given their own time to flourish such as mystery/investigation, native community/culture, science, love, hockey, etc. This also takes place in MI where I'm from so it holds a little bit of a special place too because I can name and imagine the places they go to. I was hooked from the first chapter. I cannot recommend this enough (many trigger warnings though so be forewarned)!

I really like that this book club kit came with printable bookmarks. That was a nice touch. There aren't many questions though and is only comprehension based which isn't my favorite style.

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I could've felt the story slowly paced in the beginning. But after passing up chapter by chapter I could've felt enjoyed and enchanted by what a wonderful of this story.

It was a powerful story that had out me in Native American's culture, traditions, and community. As someone who does not know much about Native cultures, as it created new ecleriences and ideas for me.

Yet thi is a YA kind of novel, but there were some trigger warnings i should deliver before reading this book such as sexual violance, rape, drugs usage, and kidnapping. Please read this book if you enjoy a crime of mtstery kind of story.

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Omg read this book. There is so much to unpack here. The way the author told the story of so many Native American family through the eyes of a young girl was pure genius. Daunis the main character will capture your heart with her wittiness and fun spirit. She is super smarts and is learning to find herself between two worlds. The Native American one and the white mans. This book has everything it touch’s on rape, fraud in tribal casinos, the meth epidemic and drug smuggling to name a few. I finished this book very quickly because I had to know what happened. Happy reading.

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This book club kit went above and beyond, really great resource from NetGalley/We Are Bookish!

The graphics, printable bookmarks, author interviews, content/trigger warnings at the beginning of the kit where they should be, books to read next (with cover art and synopsis), indigenous community resources. This book club kit is thoughtful, beautiful, and written by readers for readers! I was expecting a one or two pages of discussion questions, but this kit is everything you need to help foster and support a quality book discussion.

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This is a great resource for a book club. There is information from an author interview and even bookmarks to hand out to people. The questions are very broad and allow for complex analysis. In addition, there are references to other indigenous authors to further someone's reading.

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Another awesome kit. I loved the printable book marks and Indigenous resources. The inclusion of trigger warnings was also a very important touch. Please keep creating these book club kits.

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Excellent tool for your book club needs, lots of interesting questions to give food for thought!
Thanks NetGalley for this!

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This Kit was a great help to our Book Club as they had not read an indigenous author before. The Bookmarks were a nice touch and the discussion guides helped us when discussing the book. The group felt that the next reads recommendations were great as they wanted to read more around the subject and by indigenous authors. Thank you.

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I received this in exchange for a honest review. I actually have not read the book. But this is a book club kit that I will use if we do read this book. It had different sections and great topics for a book club discussion. I love these kind of things to help people with their book clubs.

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5/5

This is a wonderful book kit! Between the discussion questions and the resources if you feel like you need to find some support it is an all around good kit.

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What a great kit! I am the moderator for my local book club and we are reading this book this year! I also moderate a lot of buddy reads on my different book clubs online. I utilize book club discussions quite often and love to see them in a book. This kit will be a great addition to our club discussion. The interview and background make this interesting for the reader. I plan to make the bookmarks for my group, maybe laminate them. I think the discussion questions used are thought provoking and will make for a great meeting. I want to add that the graphics in this kit and the book cover really add to the appeal of this book.

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It is a great kit and really usefull for book clubs. It gave me some ideas to the book club I'm part of!

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I think this kit is great for those who want to read this book for their book club. Included is discussion topics, printable bookmarks and a few other things. If I was to start a book club myself, this would be a great addition to it.

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Great material for book clubs or group discussions! Loved these book club kits abou the Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley. The bookmarks are beautiful.

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These book club kits from NetGalley are perfect for book clubs or discussion groups, they come with questions , book marks to print,Q&A with authors. Some even have recipes to match with the books theme. The perfect way to have a great time with friends chatting about the book. I will be downloading more of these for my book club

I received a free kit from NetGalley and all opinions about are mine and made voluntarily

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