The Marrow Thieves, (Paperback)

from SheilaCornelisse

A group of indigenous people living in a dystopian Canada are hiding and fleeing from a government organization who are hunting down and killing "Indians" in order to extract their ability to dream. This is a story that makes you think about how many ways the "white" man has abused their indigeno...

from lydia1879

I struggle with young adult as a genre. I have always struggled with young adult as a genre. I didn't like young adult when I was a teen and instead stuck to modern classics, crime by Agatha Christie and comics. I always tried to read what everyone else was reading — it always ended the same, wit...

from acargile

Marrow Thieves drops the reader into the dystopian future of America. We are slowly told what happened, leading to this present life. French loses the last of his family as the novel begins. They stayed too long. They knew to keep moving, but the tree house was so nice; such a great place to get ...

from fionaanne

The prose is sparser than I would have liked; honestly, this could have been a hundred pages longer and I wouldn't have objected in the least.

from jakecasella

YA, dystopian, quite good. Near-future where most people have lost the ability to dream, leading to widespread (if thinly-sketched) societal breakdown. Indigenous peoples can still dream, and are being hunted. This book had some issues at plot-logistic levels, but was very enjoyable the closer it...