Thank you to Net Galley and Greenleaf for the eARC of All I See is Violence in exchange for an honest review!

This had all the trappings of a book I would love, but unfortunately it did not work for me. I have many questions about how this book was organized and about why Custer was chosen as a third POV, and I personally felt the writing style was often stilted and awkward. I think this book could have benefitted from only 2 POVs (or, if each pov was necessary, putting it all in third-person to help create distinctions between characters) and for each chapter to have labeled headings for clearer organization. And I’m not usually a person that asks for longer chapters, but it often felt like whiplash going between POVs, by the time I got in the groove with one timeline I’d be pushed into another. I would be curious to know how an Indigenous reviewer felt about the Custer POV, but I personally found it to be unnecessary to the point that it made the themes of generational connection and the power of women weaker.

I do think, despite some of the things I’ve outlined above, the themes here were very clear, creating strong links between the “present” (though I guess, also the past in 1972) and the past, how both trauma and resistance persist in the face of colonial violence. I enjoyed the setting of Nancy’s POV during 1972 when the American Indian Movement was at its height, I feel like that’s an often overlooked period of US history that deserves a lot more attention. 
Ultimately, while this book was not for me, I do think there’s a lot to love here and see a lot of promise for this author.