This was so unbelievably depressing. I think male physicians should be required to read this, but I am not sure I can recommend it to a layperson. It regularly made me nauseous and I had to skip half of the chapter on barbaric sexual attitudes and I wish I had skipped the whole chapter.

"A number of years scurry past with the undignified haste of startled geese." What a perfect way to describe it.

The stories were varied and interesting enough to pull me along, though the final tale, The Prior's Room, was the best of them.

I really enjoyed Life of Pi in high school but I'm starting to think maybe I shouldn't reread it. I like Martel's use of language, but this entire book was so lackluster. The editors kept asking Henry what his book was about -- but I don't think Martel knows either.

I like that she had spells for every card, but would have liked some witchy spreads as well. Only giving it 3 stars since it took me so long to get through because I just kept forgetting about it.

This  was a 2 star read for me, but I am not putting a rating in as I don't want to discourage anyone from it as I do think it's a good resource.

My biggest issue with this is that I can't figure out what the target audience is. I read the young readers version, but it's much too dry for me to imagine a young person enjoying it, and it's too simplistic for adults. The entire thing reads like an info sheet that you'd have at some corporate sensitivity training. I don't think any part of it is bad, it's just so boring.

I also struggled with the constant use of "Indians." I live in Arizona and I know many native people use that term, and it's absolutely not my place to have any opinion on that. However, as a book geared toward non-native people, I was a little uncomfortable that Treuer primarily used "Indians" instead of any other alternative. He even says in the text that it is offensive, and I would never use that term as a white person, so I think I would have preferred to see a term that is acceptable for everyone to use. But that's just my two cents and can be safely ignored.

Lackluster. I probably won't read anything else by Lahiri.

Dull as dishwater.

And the ending . . .

The voice was the old voice of god all along? But god abandoned humans so now we have to find our own way into the future? I think? what a boring, terrible ending.

I only finished this because I switched to the audio and could listen while doing other things. This was a chore. So lackluster. At least the first one had the badass ending to redeem it. This had nothing but more stupid revelations about Danica. She was like 24 when she died; there's no way she had time for all this.

Bite-size and creepy, this audiobook truly felt like a fever dream. Ambiguous ending.