A review by effingunicorns
The Angel of Indian Lake by Stephen Graham Jones

dark emotional slow-paced

4.25

This didn't go one bit how I thought it would, but the nice thing about saying that here is that I can think back to the previous two books and figure out the seeds of The Angel of Indian Lake, as opposed to the out-of-left-field bullshit we've all encountered a time or ten. A part of me wishes there'd been a little more telegraphing of The Ultimate Culprit, but another part of me was just like "yes, of course", a third part of me was satisfied by the cultural comeuppance, and then a whole fourth part of me just went straight to,
"Did you know that most non-indigenous North American folk magic has ties to Christianity?"


Anyway! Wonderful end to a wonderful trilogy. Easily as gory and brutal as the previous books (maybe more, really, my brain doesn't really register that sort of thing the first time around), deeply ruthless but not as ruthless as I feared, and the things that mattered the most, I think, all got resolved by the end.
Also Jade got a sick-ass superpower for all her suffering, so she's not allowed to argue anymore that she was never the final girl.
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