Warrior Princesses Strike Back

There are some weirdly unpolished aspects to this book. For example, each chapter ends with a reflection section, each of which opens with a “Lakhota Laws” heading. On its own, this is an excellent way to both introduce readers to the authors' culture and tie those values to the reflection that follows. The problem is that across ten chapters they only provide five unique examples, and occasionally the two given in one chapter are identical to the two from the previous chapter, often with no rewording. Now, this need not be a dealbreaker — for those that had already been defined, the authors could have given examples rather than definitions, and those examples could have been used to inform the rest of the reflection. But there lies the second snag: the laws and the reflection are at best tangentially related.

The narration is another quirk. Having just read Let This Radicalize You, which was also written by a duo of authors, it's hard not to compare the two books. Both feature individually written chapters as well as co-written ones, but the proportions are reversed. All but the first chapter of Warrior Princess Strike Back were written by a single author.