Thank you so much to Crooked Lane Books and NetGalley for providing me with an e-ARC; it is greatly appreciated.

I am sad to say, but this book ended up being just a 1 star read for me, and that star is purely for the Kiowa culture that I enjoyed learning about. If this wasn't an e-ARC then I honestly don't think I would have finished it.

There needs to be a lot more editing done here. There is an abundance of redundant paragraphs throughout this book that constantly took me out of the story. It felt like we were just idiling in the same thoughts over and over again instead of continuing on with events. This led me to skimming the last several chapters, as there was just so much included that simply didn't matter to the story.

For being a mystery novel there isn't much solved at the end. I shouted, "Wait, that's it !?" when I turned the page and the Acknowledgments were staring at me. There are essentially three plotlines happening simultaneously, and we are learning about them right up until the end, but only one is officially solved. The other two are just determined to be dealt with another day, so then what was the point ? It just made it feel like a good chunk of the book was pointless in the end.