Angeline Boulley never misses, y’all. Sisters in the Wind was so good 👏. Thank you @Macmillan.Audio for the ALC. The book comes out tomorrow!

The audiobook is good! It’s narrated by Isabella Star LaBlanc. She narrated Angeline Boulley’s other books as well. I definitely would recommend the book in any format but I did enjoy the audio!

This is a stand alone novel, but if you haven’t read and plan to read Firekeeper’s Daughter, I would definitely read that first because 1) this book has spoilers for that book and 2) things happen in this book that would impact your experience of that book. Read her books in release order, they’re all great and connected. (but not technically a series)

Angeline Boulley is such a great storyteller, every time I read one of her books I am fully immersed in it and the story is always good and painful and important. This book takes place in the early 2000s and tells the story of Lucy, a young girl who has been in the foster system for five years after her father passed away. There’s a mystery running through the whole book and things get heavy and dark. I was vacuuming listening to the end of the book yesterday just like making faces reacting to what I was hearing like a dork 🤣.

Truly can’t explain too much about what happens in the book without spoilers, I think it’s a good one to go into with little info (as long as you’re in a the right space to do that of course).

Again, absolutely would recommend the book & her books in general. Personally would suggest reading them in release order for the best enjoyment of all the details!

Just when I thought this book couldn’t get crazier it indeed did keep getting crazier. While you don’t necessarily need to read The Firekeepers daughter before this one I would definitely recommend it. I am completely gutted. devastated. How could she do this??? this was such a phenomenal book. This narrator does such a phenomenal job. I really truly do need to pick up more she has narrated. I will be buying this physical book immediately. I fear this author may have just become one of my auto buy authors. Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for my audio arc. This is true and honest review.

While it’s the third book in The Firekeeper's Daughter series, Sisters in the Wind takes place between books 1 & 2. The underlying mystery of the book had me on the edge of my seat and I loved spending more time with some characters from the first book.

Once again, Isabella Star LaBlanc is a fantastic audio narrator.

This book was an emotional punch to the gut that I am still processing a few days after finishing. Lucy has had people let her down at every stage of her life. Her father was loving but hid her past and Ojibwe heritage from her. He married a woman that put Lucy at great risk after his death. This book really highlights the dangers of the foster system in the US particularly where young indigenous women are concerned. The characters are all so well written, even the terrible ones. Angeline Boulley is a brilliant writer and I can't recommend her books more highly. This is not my first book from her and it will not be my last. The audiobook narration was beautiful. The big pro about reading this on audio is not having to put the book down because I was crying so hard I would not have been able to read the words on the page.

Thank you to NetGalley and Macmillian Audio for the ALC in exchange for an honest review.

Macmillan Audio ALC
Wow. This was another stellar book by Boulley. Her books are always worth the wait. Lucy was fierce and guarded. She was easy to root for. This book was told in alternating timelines that were heartbreaking. Boulley isn't afraid of digging into the trenches with her characters, and Lucy went through a lot of tragedy. I liked her exploration of the foster system and adoption in this novel. This topic is so important, and I think readers will learn a lot from these richly developed characters. I also love how her novels are set in the world of Firekeeper's Daughter because I love getting a glimpse into Daunis and Jamie's lives. There was also a solid mystery here that kept me wanting to not stop listening because I had to know who and why was giving Lucy so much trouble, and the payoff was well worth it. I could not imagine reading her books without Isabella Star LaBlanc narrating. Her performances are perfection because she gives these characters the voices and tones that match their determination. This book was phenomenal.

Further proof that Boulley is a master storyteller!! I absolutely LOVED this third book set in the same universe as Firekeeper's daughter. While this book follows the life of a young Indigenous teen orphan, Lucy who has aged out of the foster system, we also get feature cameos from Daunis and Jamie.

Spanning years and told in alternating timelines we see how Lucy's life in various foster homes was an increasingly terrible situation. While she did meet some people who held a place in her heart, it isn't until she her last placement, a farm where everything seems idyllic until Lucy starts to dig deeper and uncovers a shocking scheme of forced adoption and baby farming.

Haunting, suspenseful and tragically sad at times, the story does ultimately end on hopeful note. This book gave me ALL THE FEELS and was excellent on audio!! I can't recommend it enough. Many thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for an early digital and audio copy in exchange for my honest review. While it is part of an interconnected series it can be read as a standalone too.

After Lucy Smith's father died from cancer and her stepmother isn't interested in raising her, Lucy ends up in the foster system and then out on her own. She feels like she's being followed, and she decides it's time to pack up her life and leave Michigan. An explosion at the diner where she works fractures her femur and she wakes up in the hospital to Mr Jameson, an American Indian lawyer she'd met at the diner, and Daunis Fontaine, healer and best friend to Lucy's late sister. She's been told all her life that she isn't Indian, but knows that Daunis and Jamie are telling the truth about her mother, even if she isn't ready to meet her. Daunis and Jamie are in her court, fighting to help her heal, but they can't protect her from the secrets Lucy keeps hidden.

Angeline Boulley is a marvelous storyteller, and this is a hard story to tell. Where Firekeeper's Daughter tells the story of people missing from the Reservation because of drugs, this story is even darker. Lucy, like Jamie before her, encounters all the kinds of homes in the foster system, some better than others, but most terrifying. Lucy carries those scars and the emotional burden of them on top of the generational trauma through her birth mother's abandonment and the grief of her foremothers in the boarding school system. You can feel this weight on every page of the book.

Boulley's books take on difficult, but crucial parts of American history. I appreciate their early-00s setting, reminding us that this is not our distant past, but a reckoning non-American Indian people must confront, caused by the governmental systems that tore children from their families. These books are important to read, and perhaps because they are YA and focus on teenagers are more easily accessible to many readers over Louise Erdrich's more lit-fic style.

I listened to the audiobook narrated by Isabella Star LaBlanc. For anyone who is a lover of oral tradition, I recommend the audiobook. Note though, that the timeline shifts between present and past frequently, so if you are listening, pay attention to those shifts!

One of my favorite books of the year + YA mystery + third in a interconnected series!

Five years in the foster care system has taught Lucy to trust no one. Now she's on the run. When two people intersect her path, Lucy has to decide to trust them or not. In turn, she learns what her now deceased father hid from her about her & her family.

Read if you love...
- YA
- mystery
- tough topics handled with care
- interconnected series
- coming of age

I waited way too long to write this review because I knew I was going to struggle writing it.

I LOVED this book. It will easily hands down be one of my top books of the year, but where I struggle is that soooo much of what I want to say I know is a spoiler. Boulley did not for a single second disappoint! I binge listened to this start to finish without shutting it off because I HAD to know what happens.

When the book begins, Lucy is on the run. We don't know her past. The only thing we know is she's aged out of the foster care system, she has nowhere to run to and no one she trusts, and an explosion set off at her work has her very fearful. Instant pull in to the book!

As the book unfolds, Lucy meets Daunis & Mr. Jameson (to tell you I screamed would be an understatement) and slowly begins to trust them. She learns she's Ojibwe, and that she has family alive and ready to welcome her home; this was such a beautiful coming of age & reclaiming identify aspect of the book.

Two of my long-time favorite things about Boulley's writing is she 1) weaves Ojibwe language and traditions into the story, and 2) never shies away from the absolute horror that has been inflicted upon the entire Indigenous community and the lasting generational trauma that comes with that. And this book, of course, had both.

My one gripe: I wish this had been the second book in the series. Timeline wise, it happens before book two. And it would have made me love book two more that I did my first time reading it.

While they can technically all be read as standalones, I highly highly recommend reading in the order: 1-3-2.

Location: Michigan
Representation: mostly Indigenous (Ojibwe) cast
Content warnings: please check StoryGraph because there are many and they are graphic

Did I love this book? Yes. Did it also make me very sad? Also yes. Angelline Boulley writes such amazing characters who you can't help but love. You want their lives to be good and rewarding and positive. But that's rarely how real life goes and these stories are not anything if not real. While my heart is broken, I will be thinking of these characters for a long, long time.

While I was invested in Lucy's story in Sisters in the Wind, too much flipping back and forth through the timeline sometimes made it confusing and tedious to read. Too, while I truly appreciated the history, culture, and social justice aspects (as always), Boulley crammed too much into the epilogue and author's note. In Boulley's first two books, I felt that those aspects were given the honor and focus they deserved . . . within the text.

The publisher's blurb indicates that you can read Boulley's first three books in any order: Firekeeper’s Daughter (2021; I rated 3.66 stars), Warrior Girl Unearthed (2023, to which I awarded all 5 stars!), and Sisters in the Wind (2025; this review). I would strongly recommend reading the first book first, as two significant characters in the new book are featured heavily in Firekeeper’s Daughter, and there are several other characters from book one mentioned in—and important to—book three. I don't have strong feelings about which book to read second. No matter what your reading order [1, 2, 3 or 1, 3, 2], don't miss the Firekeeper’s Daughter series.

I anticipated at least two major plot points well in advance, but it didn't detract terribly from my overall enjoyment.

All of Boulley's books are substantive and serious. Content warnings for this book include racism; generational trauma; abuse of the foster system; stolen children and illegal adoptions; incest and sexual abuse, including of minors; and brutal violence, including murder. While these are intense, they are necessary to the honest retelling of the horrors that have been perpetrated against Indigenous people in the United States of America throughout its history. I share the content warnings so each reader can decide for themselves, not as a deterrent to reading whatever one chooses. If possible, I recommend reading these, even though they may be uncomfortable and are certainly upsetting.

The audio edition is admirably narrated by Isabella Star LaBlanc, who might be new to me.

3.33⭐

Thank you Macmillan Audio for this ARC audio!

I don't think there will ever be a Boulley piece where it is not 5 stars.

She describes her work as "Nancy Drew for adults" and it's absolutely true.

The suspense and tension that she weaves throughout are impeccable.

I love reading her stories and learning so much along the way.

WOW.

Angeline Boulley and how she writes just burrows right into my brain. This book is heartbreaking on a multitude of levels, and yet is so hopeful on just as many.

This story features Lucy, a young woman who, after her father dies, goes into foster care and desperately wants to create a good life. She doesn't know that she is Ojibwe, she doesn't know about the rest of her family in the world, and she doesn't fully trust the random dude that keeps coming in to her work and eventually tells her about this side of her. Then, everything blows up thanks to some people who are following Lucy's every move, and said dude and his friend take over caring for Lucy.

In here, not only do you get a story of resilience, you get a scathing look at the corruption of the foster system, the problems with America and the Indian Child Welfare Act, and the effect of cultish religion on seemingly normal families. Everything was so well done, and the way that the story is written, with the present and Lucy's past twined together, works so beautifully. Boulley has a talent for making the innocuous evil, and for creating flawed yet loveable characters.

Yes, just like in Warrior Girl Unearthed, there are some appearances by characters from previous books. And hoo boy, buckle up. The entire back half of the book had me reeling, and sent me through near every emotion.

In conclusion, I loved it. Highly recommend to everyone, especially those who liked Firekeeper's Daughter. This one might be my favorite yet, and that's saying something, because I adored Firekeeper's Daughter.

The narrator was fantastic for this one, and sucked me right in.

Thanks to Netgalley, Henry Holt, and Macmillain Audio for the e-ARC and e-ALC.

Holy moly, Angeline Boulley has written another masterpiece talking about the native experience with adoption, the foster system, native trauma, and grief. This an author I’m always going to recommend to people, to confront and face the horrors that are still ongoing and not in the distance past. I cried so much reading this, for my cousins who were part of adoptions before ICWA and after when it was still ignored, and for all the horrors of other women I don’t know. Found family is always a weakness of mine but watching these characters be family, love each other, teach each other cultures, and everything else in-between. I’m gonna go cry and stare at the wall for several hours (maybe days now).

It was so good, it gave me all the feels, emotions of sadness, I even was mad for a minute, the story had its heartbreaking moments.

Reading about Lucy had me hooked from the beginning, I was texting my friends saying, “This is a must-read story!

This was a very compelling mystery that had me binging the book in less 24 hours. Plenty of shocking reveals and twists!

The stories of the Ojibwe traditions and their heritage was knowledgeable and reading about the Indian Child Welfare Act was touching.

When I worked with the government I saw how so many children was in the system through foster care, and how it functioned and how the system failed so many kids and their families.

Since I am a lover of dramatic stories that pull the strings on my heart this story was raw, uncut, and a must read.

Thank you to Macmillan and NetGalley for a copy of the ALC in exchange for a review.

Where do I even begin? Sisters in the Wind by Angeline Boulley is a heartbreaking and breathtaking book. It is fictional, but deals with many complex and very real issues. There were parts that seemed not realistic, but not so far fetched the were beyond the realm of possible, more just so far fetched that you hope the world is better than that. I loved the book so much, but it was so heartbreaking.

I am a teacher, and I must say there was a bit of a sex scene that was too descriptive and some descriptions of body parts that would make this book one I would not read out loud or assign to a class. I would have it on my shelf, but with those disclaimers.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for an audio ARC. The thoughts and options are my own. I love all of Angeline Boulley's books! They all deal with so many complex issues.

🎧 Audiobook Review- ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️

Narration: 5/5
Book: 6/5
Playback Speed: 2x

This is my third book by Angeline Boulley, and for me, she has proven yet again the power of storytelling and fiction to convey unimaginable, but incredibly important issues facing Indigenous communities in the United States. Boulley's is a master storyteller creating engaging and compelling narratives filled with mystery and thrills, while educating and advocating for a community that is so often underserved and under represented not only in literary spaces, but for many, everyday life.

This book went above and beyond any expectations I might have held for it. This book stole my heart and while I caution anyone that plans to read this that it deals with highly trigger topics (please pay attention to trigger warnings for your own mental well being) I was left gasping and crying in the end. Everything about this book, from the characters, to the mystery, to the FMC, Lucy, struggling to find her identity, left me devouring this book in less than 24 hours.

The audio is equally fantastic. While the story alone is a six star read, the audio by Isabella Star LeBlanc is incredible. I have listened to all of Boulley books narrated by LaBlanc and her narration only continues to get better and better. The depth of emotion, inflections, and pronunciation of the Ojibwe language, Anishinaabemowin, adds so much to the story.

In short, please read and/or listen to this book, even if the topic for you is heavy- we have silenced these communities for far too long, it is time we sit and listen to hear their stories. Finally, while this is being marketed YA, this story is for everyone, and if you are a younger reader, or providing it to a young reader in your life, please educate and engage with them on these topics- this isn't a book just to consume and put on a shelf, it is a rallying call to action showing through story the importance and lasting impact of the Indian Child Welfare Act .

From the bottom of my heart, thank you Angeline Boulley, Macmillan Audio, Macmillan Publishers, and NetGalley for the gifted Advanced Listening Copy. All opinions expressed are my own.

I had a mixed reaction to this book. The story of how Native American children are neglected in the foster care system was powerful and important. However, the book's mystery relied too much on coincidence. I found the ending obvious, and the final showdown felt forced. The good outweighed the bad, but I was disappointed.

Thank you to Macmillan and NetGalley for the ARC of this book. All opinions are my own.

Angeline can do no wrong, and this continues to prove that. She has a special way of truly pulling you in, making you feel for the characters, but still giving you something much needed information about what it’s like to be Indigenous in the world. I loved getting to learn a little more about ICWA, Lucy’s journey, and what it’s like to be in foster care.

This whole book was emotional, raw, and real. Once it started, I never wanted it to stop. It was beautiful. Angeline’s voice is incredible. You truly feel for every character. I loved the little nods to previous works. It made it all worth it. The pain, the tears, the gasps. It was beautiful. I can’t wait to shout from the rooftops about this continuously. It was everything to me. You simply have to read this.

As for the narration- it was wonderful. She did such a great job helping you feel the emotion, and pulls you into the story. It was clear and easy to understand. It was well done, and it was a wonderful audiobook. It truly brought the characters to life and I’m so glad I was able to listen and read at the same time. It helped me truly savor the story.

Five stars, forever.

I really enjoyed the continuation of The Firekeepers Daughter series. I enjoy the characters and the play on previous events, though not necessary to read this book too.

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Sisters in the Wind has me speechless! I don't even know how to write this review. I think this book might just be my favorite book for the year 2025! Highly recommended.

The audiobook is narrated by Isabella Star LaBlanc, and she did a phenomenal job! She gave the characters so much personality! She was easy to listen to and understand. I listened at 2x speed.

Thank you, NetGalley, and Macmillan Audio for the audiobook in exchange for my honest review.