This one sounded interesting and the premise was new but I think because it wasn't by an indigenous author something was lacking.

I haven't read anything by this author before, and I'm so glad that I did. I thought this book was so well written. I requested this book because of the beautiful cover. This was a book filled with the courageous story of a Cherokee woman and so much more. I enjoyed every minute of it. It was an emotion roller coaster, and I can't wait for more from this author.

Thank you Net Galley ARC and Histra

Picked up this book because I am a Cherokee woman. It was engaging in a sense, but ultimately just not for me and I have ended up DNFing.

I am not commenting on the rep as I don't feel I saw enough to make a true assumption. What I did read wasn't alarming or bad or anything.

I just shouldn't have tried a historical like this.

Helena Ostenaco Timberlake finds herself stranded in London, she has no money to pay for the long voyage across the Alantic Ocean back to America and her son Richard. Helena has been gone for over twenty years, America is now an independent country and she puts her case before the British again and desperately wants to go home.

Helena is a widow of Lieutenant Henry Timberlake a war hero and a member of the "Patriot Blues", a baptized christian, daughter of Cherokee chief Ostenaco, and granddaughter of Cat Walker a skilled herb-woman. Helena was born in the Overhills of Cherokee Nation, she was named Skitty, and Cat Walker convinced her the trip was too much for a baby and offered to look after Richard. When Henry Timberlake dies in a debtor’s prison, Helena has to fend for herself in Georgian England and she believes Henry’s name was slandered, he was cheated and she wants to culprit to pay.

I received a copy of The Woman with the Stone Knife by Dale Neal from NetGalley and Histria Books in exchange for an honest review. Henry Timberlake was a real person, he knew chief Ostenaco and they went on an expedition together, and he wrote a journal about the Cherokee Indians way of life in the Southern Appalachian area.

I found the narrative set from 1765 to 1786 confusing and I gather Skitty or Helena stayed in England due to not having the money to return to America and she wanted repair the damage done to Henry's reputation and keep his journals in her possession.

I did find the ways and history of the Cherokee Indians interesting, but I had trouble connecting with the characters in the novel and I recommend reading this one yourself and making up your own mind. Three stars from me and I had such high hopes for this debut book and the cover is stunning.