jinksea 's review for:

The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones

4.5

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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A well-written, intensely creative, fresh take on the vampire, this book will likely stay with me for a long while after I’ve put it down. The book pulls no punches when it comes to colonialism and indigenous trauma but is also a cool horror story. The one flaw I would say is that Etsy as a character isn’t as strong for me as our two other narrators but it’s a minor gripe and entirely subjective. I highly recommend picking this one up if you’re into vampires and revenge stories.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Death, Genocide, Gore, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Cannibalism, Religious bigotry, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation

Moderate: Racism, Religious bigotry, Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Rape, Terminal illness