White Horse is a gritty, vibrant debut from Erika T. Wurth about an Indigenous woman who must face her past when she discovers a bracelet haunted by her mother’s spirit. Some people are haunted in more ways than one. Heavy metal, ripped jeans, Stephen King novels, and the occasional beer at the White Horse have defined urban Indian Kari James’s life so far. But when her cousin Debby finds an old family bracelet that once belonged to Kari’s mother, it inadvertently calls up both her mother’s ghost and a monstrous entity, and her willful ignorance about her past is no longer sustainable… Haunted by visions of her mother and hunted by this mysterious creature, Kari must search for what happened to her mother all those years ago. Her father, permanently disabled from a car crash, can’t help her. Her Auntie Squeaker seems to know something but isn’t eager to give it all up at once. Debby’s anxious to help, but her controlling husband keeps getting in the way. Kari’s journey toward a truth long denied by both her family and law enforcement forces her to confront her dysfunctional relationships, thoughts about a friend she lost in childhood, and her desire for the one thing she’s always wanted but could never have.
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I have to be honest, I went into this book thinking I wasn't going to like it so I wasn't really all that surprised when I didn't. I did not find what was supposed to be classed as horror as spooky, nor did it feel like horror while reading it. I honestly don't even think the book completed itself, it may have and I just didn't care enough to pay attention. There was so much filler in this book as well, just things that added nothing to the main story. I felt like the author had a page number quota that she was trying to fill and therefore we got random junk like the constant fighting between her friend and her husband and so on. Just wasn't the book for me.