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The Buffalo Hunter Hunter
by Stephen Graham Jones
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
☆ Fun Factor 5/5 (Etsy's chapters suck but the rest is page turner at its best)
☆ Writing Style 5/5 (3+ different writing styles in one work, fantastically done)
☆ Characters 5/5
☆ Plot 4/5
☆ Setting 5/5
☆ Feels 3/5
☆ Spiciness --/5 (no sex)
☆ Gore 10/5 (WARNING: this book is intensely graphic animal and human violence and cruelty)
If this were a movie it'd be rated: R for frequent deaths, murders, blood, gore, intense violence, terrifying imagery, body horror, torture, intense animal cruelty, animal deaths, mutilation, and stalking
☆FOR FANS OF: The Vampire Chronicles and Let The Right One In
Ultimate verdict: ☆☆☆☆/5
☆☆☆Best Character Award goes to:☆☆☆ There's a small cast here, but Arthur and Good Stab are both incredibly compelling characters
Review: Interview with a Cat Man
It's hard to talk about this one without giving too much away, and the less you know going into it the better. It's a diary within a diary within a diary. Etsy our 2012-2013 voice as she goes through the diary of her ancestor Arthur who wrote in 1912, and Good Stab, who tells his 80+ years of life to Arthur as a confessional in the church. Each of the three POVs has a distinct voice and style, and 2/3 of these were VERY good.
This gets a 4 not a 5 from me because I feel that Etsy's unnecessary and actually takes away from the point, the horror, and the mystique of the other two POVs. I highly HIGHLY recommend skipping her chapters and ending the book with Arthur's final chapter.
That being said, about 80% of the book is either Arthur's or Good Stab's story and they are both exceptional. Compelling twists on the vampire genre galore: Good Stab is not your white European gentleman upper class vampire like Lestat. What exactly makes him special was too cool to spoil, both in his racial perspectives as a Blackfeet Indian and his powers as a vampire. This is a wild ride from start to finish.
It's not scary, but it's incredibly grotesque: reader be warned. If you are squeamish DO NOT pick up this book. Death happens so frequently I lost count after awhile, and it's not pretty. Animals and people suffer through terrible things in this book.
Thank you to NetGalley, the author, and the publisher for this ARC in exchange for my honest review!
☆ Writing Style 5/5 (3+ different writing styles in one work, fantastically done)
☆ Characters 5/5
☆ Plot 4/5
☆ Setting 5/5
☆ Feels 3/5
☆ Spiciness --/5 (no sex)
☆ Gore 10/5 (WARNING: this book is intensely graphic animal and human violence and cruelty)
If this were a movie it'd be rated: R for frequent deaths, murders, blood, gore, intense violence, terrifying imagery, body horror, torture, intense animal cruelty, animal deaths, mutilation, and stalking
☆FOR FANS OF: The Vampire Chronicles and Let The Right One In
Ultimate verdict: ☆☆☆☆/5
☆☆☆Best Character Award goes to:☆☆☆ There's a small cast here, but Arthur and Good Stab are both incredibly compelling characters
Review: Interview with a Cat Man
It's hard to talk about this one without giving too much away, and the less you know going into it the better. It's a diary within a diary within a diary. Etsy our 2012-2013 voice as she goes through the diary of her ancestor Arthur who wrote in 1912, and Good Stab, who tells his 80+ years of life to Arthur as a confessional in the church. Each of the three POVs has a distinct voice and style, and 2/3 of these were VERY good.
This gets a 4 not a 5 from me because I feel that Etsy's unnecessary and actually takes away from the point, the horror, and the mystique of the other two POVs. I highly HIGHLY recommend skipping her chapters and ending the book with Arthur's final chapter.
That being said, about 80% of the book is either Arthur's or Good Stab's story and they are both exceptional. Compelling twists on the vampire genre galore: Good Stab is not your white European gentleman upper class vampire like Lestat. What exactly makes him special was too cool to spoil, both in his racial perspectives as a Blackfeet Indian and his powers as a vampire. This is a wild ride from start to finish.
It's not scary, but it's incredibly grotesque: reader be warned. If you are squeamish DO NOT pick up this book. Death happens so frequently I lost count after awhile, and it's not pretty. Animals and people suffer through terrible things in this book.
Thank you to NetGalley, the author, and the publisher for this ARC in exchange for my honest review!
Content Warnings
Graphic: Ableism, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Death, Drug use, Genocide, Gore, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Religious bigotry, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism