Hearts Unbroken (Cynthia Leitich Smith)

Read for the "YA book by an Indigenous author" category of the Read Harder Challenge. This is about a Kansas girl who is a member of the Muskogee nation.  She deals with racism at her school as she tries to navigate her love life.

I would not have finished this book if it hadn't been for the RHC. It's not terrible - I enjoyed the main character very much - but the romance has absolutely no zing, the love interest is unappealing, many plotlines are just abruptly dropped or resolved too neatly, and the middle drags a lot.  So does the beginning. Kind of the end too.  

It's good to have a book that dives into many sides of the Native experience and again, I loved this character and found her unique in a great way. But sadly the book didn't do her justice.