Moon of the Turning Leaves

This book amazingly continues the story of the Whitesky family from the previous book, Moon of the crusted snow. Evan is still heavily featured in this book while his daughter Nanghoons takes up more of the spotlight, as the book is mainly written from her perspective. 
Many people critiqued the slow pace of the first book. This one is still kinda slow but a lot more tense all throughout. At one point, I actually leaned forward and my heart started beating faster in anticipation - this never happens for me. 
The story wraps up suddenly, but nicely. Its a fairly nice ending and fitting, considering the book is about the journey of our protagonists and the Whitesky family. Really loved this book. :)

Super interesting quiet story about Anishinaabe survivors 15+ years after the world broke. Some decide to leave to go looking for something.

I went in blind, only knowing it was a sequel. I was nervous because book one takes place when crap hits the fan and there was a lot of thriller-esque tension and darkness that uneased me, but I surprisingly reallllly liked it and definitely more than the first one!

A must-read for readers of post-apocalyptic or you want to feel like you're in a temperate forest. If the first book really doesn't sound like your thing I'd say you can go to book two.

This book was a little bit slow for me at first, a lot of day to day descriptions of travelling, and a few of the side characters feel like they're just there to pad out the team (sorry Tyler) but overall a great hopeful post apocalyptic story.