Today @KirkusReviews...

...I wrote about Kate A. Boorman's Winterkill:

Other than the distinctly Canadian setting—or, well, I assumed it was set in Canada, what with the specific mix of cultures and ethnicities and languages (English, French, First Peoples), the climate and landscape, and the fact that the author is Canadian—and other than the reliance on dreams for discovery and decision-making (though that element reads more like simple plot contrivance than a totally integrated aspect of the worldbuilding), most of what Winterkill offers up has appeared elsewhere.