I found Apache very different to the other books I read. A lot more happened in it though it wasn’t that much longer than other books, and its style was completely different. It was set from the point of view of someone who didn’t live in the same system as we live in today. You believe in the character and all the emotions: her world is well described and I could see things clearly in my head, but all the names confused me because they were in a different language.

Siki, the main character, decides to take the path of a warrior, a virtually unknown thing for girls, after her only family, younger brother Tazhi, is killed by the Mexicans. I thought the arguments and fights between the different forces were vivid, and a bit exaggerated, but I liked the mysteries about Keste, Dahtet and her father, and how she found out the truth only at the end.  Unlike the others, this book didn’t have a disappointing ending, and kept the same pace throughout the story. I liked how Tanya Landman had obviously researched tribes like Siki’s and nothing seemed too exaggerated.

I thought Siki’s thoughts and feelings for the ‘white eyes’ were well written, everything we take for granted, cheese, Jesus on a cross, mining, tall buildings were seen at first as interesting but later as evil. It had lots of emotions and you could relate to all the characters, and I think a lot of other people would too, it wasn’t a book for just one small group of readers.