White Horse - Target Exclusive Signed Edition by Erika T. Wurth (Hardcover)

I read this book through twice to make sure I was being fair. First, this book is actually terrible. The author is not good at character or plot development. Her main character Kari lives in a bar and likes to smart off a lot at her white cousin, who is repeatedly described as having "little white hands." (!!!) They do immature things together such as argue, drink, go to parks, and ride rides. The white cousin and her husband are tedious, as well--they bicker a lot and he orders her around. The main character is supposed to be Native American but she doesn't come across as anything more than a bland, snippy, unfocused woman who likes to drink a lot. The absolutely weirdest part is how the author sets up this showdown between two different parts of Kari's life: the Apache and the Chickasaw sides. There's this Chickasaw monster character called the Lofa that is called forth via a magical humming bracelet (rolls eyes) and somehow Kari has this vision that allows her to pull an Apache warclub out of a detailed carving on a bed in the so-called haunted hotel in Estes Park, Colorado. Yea, the book is *that* clunky...So anyway, Kari takes the Apache war club and kills the Chickasaw monster with it, apparently in some crazy attempt to kill the Chickasaw side of her Native life. So now the main character is denying the Chickasaw part of her life? Freakin' weird. If this sounds bizarre, well, yea, it is quite bizarre. Apparently the author didn't think through this aspect of her novel--the war between the Chickasaw and the Apache sides of the main character's life. This book has a distinct lack of authenticity, and the writing style is incredibkly bland and dull.

Book is bland/pointless. Support real Native authors, not wurth. Better reads are out there.

I adored this book. It was not what I expected, but it gave so much.

I tried to like it. Terrible pacing. Immature characters. Story was all over the place and also no where at the same time. Maybe 50 pages were interesting. The “horror” was laughable. Doesn’t pick up till page 200 and then still sucks. Hard pass. Then ending was stupid also. I can’t believe they published this.

I really wanted to like this book. The premise seemed right up my alley, but it just feels so rough. It’s repetitive, confusing, and the characters all feel SO immature even though they’re 35+.