Review: Two Spirits

Two Spirits by Walter L. Williams

My rating: 3 of 5 stars



When I read this story, I took the description of Navajo life with a grain of salt. I didn't know how much liberty the author had taken, or if the descriptions were very accurate. I had before heard about Two Spirits and that the Native American's are said to have been more accepting towards transgenders and homosexuality.

I thought the story started a little bit slow, and that it took a while to get to the more interesting part of the story. I wasn't interested in Will's life before arriving to the reservation, I was interested about his life with the Navajos and Nadleh. But writing about how Will became to be who he was and how he came to the reservation gave depth to him and explained parts of the story later on.

Regardless if the information about Navajo life were true or not, it was interesting to read and think about the philosophy lessons that were given. Nadleh was a fascinating character to get to know and Dezba as well.

All in all, I enjoyed the story for what it was, a story and not a culture/history lesson. I did get irritated with the thoughts of Will written down in 1:st POV. I didn't think that those parts gave anything meaningful to the story and it just seemed ugly to me to have it liked that. But I liked all the characters in it, the way they were build and the depth of the most important ones. It's a good read, but nothing spectacular.



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