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Temporada de Caça by Stephen Graham Jones

241 reviews

jbfletcher's review against another edition

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Gun violence, and Violence

Moderate: Vomit

embee007's review against another edition

dark emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

"Indian stories always hoop back on themselves like that, don’t they? At least the good ones do."

After a slow start, there was some small sections where I was on the edge of my seat, but the rest of the book was a constant state of dread, with a cloud of foreboding hanging overhead.

"It’s a good day to die. I will fight no more forever."

I frequently couldn't decide if I wanted to read & know what happened next, risking nightmares, & the same decision at the end of the next chapter, or wait until it was morning.

"His whole life he’s been looking in the wrong places. Why should tonight be any different?"

I ultimately finished the book just after 4am, because I had to keep going at one point.

"This is all you really need, isn’t it? Just one good friend. Somebody you can be stupid with. Somebody who’ll peel you up off the ground, prop you against the wall."

I don't want to expand on the blurb & write a spoiler...you're either interested in the premise or not, I'm reviewing the horror aspect. It is gory, there is body horror, animal deaths, human deaths, it is gruesome

“We’re from where we’re from,” she says back. “Scars are part of the deal, aren’t they?”

Representation: Indigenous MCs are mostly from the Blackfeet & Crow tribes

"Wouldn’t that be the best revenge? Death is too easy. Better to make every moment of the rest of a person’s life agony."

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Cursing, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Suicide, Torture, Blood, Grief, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Two times, elk babies are cut out of bodies (one elk & one human), & once, a baby elk still in it's sak is dug up & the sak is cut open.

sargasso_c's review against another edition

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Gore, Racism, Violence, Vomit, Stalking, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Gun violence, Torture, Blood, Pregnancy, and Alcohol

Minor: Alcoholism, Fire/Fire injury, and Abandonment

laurarmz's review against another edition

dark slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.0

For a horror book, it took me an awfully long time to finish it. The thing is, I was about 35% into de book when I was first hooked. And then there were whole-ass chapters about stuff I didn’t care about up until 70% and the last bit was just too long. 

I cannot say it enough times, the pacing wasn’t right for me; or maybe it was the writing style, which made me go back and check what the fuck I was reading because some sentences didn’t make all the sense in the world and digressing just distracted me; or maybe it was the fact that I didn’t care about the characters because their whole personalities seemed to be based off on being “Indian”; or maybe it was the non-structured switch in povs because the Elk’s version was awesome but it just changed too quickly to tell what was happening. 

I didn’t have any expectations going in, so I’m not suuuuper disappointed. But I certainly need another horror book to clean out the bad aftertaste this one left. 

Gorey descriptions were really cool tho, and the way characters turned on one another actually managed to creep me out, so kudos for that. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Gore, Gun violence, Racism, and Murder

clrouse's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Violence, Blood, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Racism, Sexual content, Vomit, Police brutality, Medical trauma, and Alcohol

jully_bean's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, Pregnancy, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

taratearex's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

This was so great, it had me staying up late wanting to just keep reading and also scared I was going to have nightmares and wishing I hadn't read it at night. It's legit very scary, so creepy and chilling, and the way he drags out a scene that you know is just going to explode is such torture (complimentary). There are many threads being woven through this story and many POV's, I doubled back a few times to make sure I was grasping things, he's dropping hints and references throughout, it's worth it to stop and try to get your bearings, slow down and sink into the story. I can see how people could get lost if you're sort of passively engaging with this or aren't into trying to weave together all the pieces. I honestly can't wait for a reread. I will say the gore is hard to stomach at times and if you're at all sensitive to pet death this may not be the one for you, the descriptions can be brutal! (I know, I know I'm reading horror, but I block gore with my hands when I'm watching TV lol)

CW: racism, violence/murder/death of humans and animals (dogs, elk), very descriptive gore, hunting, alcoholism, parent death, child death, hate crime 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Racism, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, and Murder

gracecrandall's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Body horror, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Racism, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Hate crime

More on the hate crime trigger tag

the book opens with a man dying at the hands of a small mob, mostly racially motivated. The actual violence isn't described, but the potential for it is gone over in the character's mind several times in the scene. There are other parts of the book where hate crimes of varying intensity against indigenous people are mentioned or talked about as normal occurances.

ticklemetiff's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

If you can’t handle animals brutally dying, this is not the book for you. If you aren’t a fan of basketball, this is not the book for you. It wasn’t a bad book, I just couldn’t get behind all the animal brutality. & that’s a me problem I guess. How the antagonist is set up is pretty cool, it was a little confusing in the beginning. I think switching between main characters so early on threw me off for a minute. But again, probably just a me problem. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Cursing, Death, Gun violence, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, and Cultural appropriation

cruspp_29's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Suicide, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Gun violence and Pregnancy

Minor: Drug abuse and Colonisation