If anything, their previous struggles pale in comparison to what lies ahead of them.īy turns brutal, emotional, raw, and hopeful, the story provides an unflinching look at what one would be willing to do for freedom and for family, and the heavy costs associated with those choices. I don't know about you, but I had hoped that Frenchie and his family were done with their trials for awhile. When their paths finally collide, French must decide how far he is willing to go-and how many loved ones is he willing to betray-in order to survive.Īn amazing sequel to The Marrow Thieves, Hunting by Stars picks up immediately after the end of the first book. Meanwhile, out in the world, his found family searches for him and dodges new dangers-school Recruiters, a blood cult, even the land itself. But then French wakes up in a pitch-black room, locked in and alone for the first time in years, and he knows immediately where he is-and what it will take to escape. Seventeen-year-old French lost his family to these schools and has spent the years since heading north with his new found family: a group of other dreamers, who, like him, are trying to build and thrive as a community. Soon, residential schools pop up-or are re-opened-across the land to bring in the dreamers and harvest their dreams. The government soon finds that the Indigenous people of North America have retained their dreams, an ability rumored to be housed in the very marrow of their bones.

Without dreams, people are haunted, sick, mad, unable to rebuild. Years ago, when plagues and natural disasters killed millions of people, much of the world stopped dreaming.

The marrow thieves cherie dimaline