Elatsoe

This is the first book in the Elatsoe series.  Last year, I read Sheine Lende which is the prequel.  It won last year’s Lodestone Award, the YA novel award presented at the Hugo Ceremony.  Elatsoe was nominated for the 2021 Lodestone but didn’t win.  I thought Sheine Lende was the superior book, richer in world building and character development.  Elatsoe is good, but it wasn’t as rich in the history of the Lipan Apache.  It spent a lot of time recounting the main character’s six times great grandmother’s adventures.  It felt more like info dump than world building.  Still, for a first novel, it’s good.

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