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A review by themermaddie
The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
5.0
quickly learning that nothing makes me quite as giddy as a SGJ novel. no one else is doing horror like SGJ is!!!
the writing is, as always, bold and slightly experimental but undeniably beautiful, the man has a way with words. it's amazing the way he makes native tradition and lore work so well with the horror genre, the setting and characters were so spooky and haunted. i absolutely love SGJ's entities; his entities are so cryptid and horrible and lovecraftian and it's so hard to look directly at them but i want to so bad. this story is just tragedy after tragedy in the slowest most horrible way; that first scene with shaney and peta hit me like a tonne of fucking bricks dude. jesus. after that i was like, nothing could possibly end well after this, and i was right! sort of. one thing i like about SGJ books is the insane amount of horrible shit that happens and i still can walk away from the book with a vaguely traumatised sense of optimism.
anyway this is peak horror, am currently working my way through all his books and very excited about it. reality is so unreal in the SGJ universe
the writing is, as always, bold and slightly experimental but undeniably beautiful, the man has a way with words. it's amazing the way he makes native tradition and lore work so well with the horror genre, the setting and characters were so spooky and haunted. i absolutely love SGJ's entities; his entities are so cryptid and horrible and lovecraftian and it's so hard to look directly at them but i want to so bad. this story is just tragedy after tragedy in the slowest most horrible way; that first scene with shaney and peta hit me like a tonne of fucking bricks dude. jesus. after that i was like, nothing could possibly end well after this, and i was right! sort of. one thing i like about SGJ books is the insane amount of horrible shit that happens and i still can walk away from the book with a vaguely traumatised sense of optimism.
anyway this is peak horror, am currently working my way through all his books and very excited about it. reality is so unreal in the SGJ universe