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Boy Made of Dawn

Navajo Nation, Book 2

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Boy Made of Dawn

By: R. Allen Chappell
Narrated by: Kaipo Schwab
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In this fast-paced sequel to the highly acclaimed Navajo Autumn, Charlie Yazzie and Thomas Begay encounter danger and intrigue on the nation's largest Indian reservation. Old and new characters emerge to unravel ongoing corruption in the upcoming Patsy Greyhorse murder trials, and an irascible Ute family and their shrewd ranch-woman neighbor become caught up in the plot to place certain tribal leaders above the law.

©2013 R. Allen Chappell (P)2016 Tantor Genre Fiction Mystery Suspense Thriller & Suspense Westerns World Literature Fiction Native American Navajo Nation Mysteries
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Finally found a series of books that have replaced my tony hillerman that I’ve read many times over. R Alen Chappell is in great company of authoring.

Boy of Dawn

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This is book two in the Navajo Nation series. Charlie Yazzie is now working for the Navajo Legal Service as an attorney. He is thinking about asking his girl friend, Sue Hanagari, to marry him.

A Ute man tells Charlie about seeing a young boy about six or so alone out in the wilderness, but the boy would hide from him. Charlie goes out to find the boy and discovers he is his friend Thomas Begay’s son. The story gets more involved as Charlie and Thomas discover someone wants to stop them and others from testifying at the upcoming Patsy Greyhorse Trial.

The book is well written and is very fast moving. As in book one Chappell provides information about the Navajo and Ute culture and history. The characters are interesting and Chappell continues to develop them in this book. The author’s description of the country makes the reader feel as if they are there. Chappell is a great storyteller. The narrator, Kaipo Schwab, does an excellent job narrating the book; his pronunciation of the Navajo words and rhythm of speech is great. The narrator helps to make the story fun to listen too.

A Page Turner

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Enjoyed learning the Navajo ways. I was born in that part of the country. I am a Pueblo and Navajo.

Enlightening

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Kaipo does such an excellent job. I find myself searching for books that he narrates. He brings me into the stories which I love because it's as if my own cousins are telling what they've been up to LOL. Not as adventurous as these stories but nonetheless so entertaining.

LOVE IT!!!

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Overall, I liked the book, and the series. They're easy to get through, and made interesting with the insights into modern life on a reservation. I don't like the fact that each book is as expensive as a full length novel, but is really just a short story.

Good listen - too expensive.

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I loved it. Could hardly bear to turn it off to find out what happened next.

great book

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Good story but the quality of recording was less than positive. Injections of correction by different voice or at different. recording levels was very amateurish

Inconsistency in recording

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Well written, well paced, very interesting information about Native American life.
A good read.

Interesting but not riveting

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