Apache is a well researched interesting book, for someone who is interested in American Indians, which I am not.

It starts off about a boy called Tazhi and how “he was cut down” and “sent to the afterlife” along with most of the tribe and you get an impression of how this book might continue. It is set in the Black Mountain Apache, who are at war with the Mexicans. It is told by a misfit girl and an orphan, called Siki, who cannot do any of the tasks a girl must be able to do. When Tazhi is killed she decides to avenge his death and become a warrior.

She then has to complete various tasks, comes to dislike Keste and avenges Tazhi’s death in battle. But you don’t feel as though the book has gone anywhere or is going anywhere.

But then they meet a new group of people have appeared in the Apache land – the “White Eyes”. These people are the Americans as we now know them and they live very differently to the Apache nation. Siki spot someone strange in this group of people and you start to think up plots and ideas. But as the book drags on these suspicions are killed until the end when she learns some uncomfortable facts about her father.

This book tells the story of the Apache culture, home and struggle for survival very well, but does not actually have a very good story itself. It portrays the Apache nation as the good guys and Siki as their hero, which can tend to spoil any tension that might be building up.

Overall I would give this 4/10.