Winter Counts is about a Native American vigilante “thug, Virgil Wounded Horse, who is hired to take care of business that the Federal Government refuses to touch on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota. But when his line of work turns personal, he has to decide if he can trust the feds to make the right choice or take matters into his own hands. This crime thriller gives us a closer look at reservation life and the failed criminal justice that plagues many reservations across the country.

I loved this story so much, I could not put it down. I was so fascinated by the authors ability to draw on his own experiences and intersperse them with a believable fictional story. I thought the writing was so beautiful and the words used by the author had me enthralled nearly the whole time. I was very excited to learn more about Native American culture and reading this book gave me a glimpse of what reservation life is like. This book also touches on an important topic of how crimes are prosecuted on a reservation, it sheds light on the injustices still plaguing the Native American people. Not only that, but it provides us with the tools to learn more about culture and how we can better educate ourselves about the criminal justice system relating to reservations.