| From Amazon: In THE YOUNG HEALER tradition meets contemporary when what starts out as just another day becomes anything but that for young Feather Anderson. Her beloved grandfather, a traditional Lakota healer, pulls her out of class one snowy morning and takes her on an old-fashioned vision quest in the heart of New York City in hopes of finding the perfect Lakota medicine. It becomes the most magical day ever for eleven-year-old Feather Anderson, the day she saves her little brother’s life. Feather follows in her grandfather’s footsteps of healing as a medicine man and she then earns her newly-given secret Lakota name. I found The Young Healer to be a so-so novel. The author never breaks out and wows the reader with the imagery that he could have, and the book is a little preachy in places it doesn't need to be. |
The grandfather here really has a chip on his shoulder, and that's OK, but it makes even the narration seem angry. Not only that, but Feather and her grandfather are placed into a sequence of situations that are simply explained as the universe working its magic; I felt like the reader deserved more.
