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The Angel of Indian Lake by Stephen Graham Jones

11 reviews

ramreads5's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• 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: Suicidal thoughts, Addiction, Gore, Grief, Pedophilia, Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Blood, Child death, Death, Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Murder, Violence, and Physical abuse

elysianbud's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

I miss Jade Daniels already. 

Stephen Graham Jones gutted me like a fish. Feel like Casey Becker hanging from a tree with my innards falling out.

There's a bit in the acknowledgements (which I also cried at, because I don't want this to be the end) where he says "the cool thing about trilogies is you get to use every last part of the buffalo". By fuck did he use every last part--everything goes down in this finale. All the town lore combines and Proofrock undergoes it's one last hectic and gory night of chaos and blood-shed. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Violence, Death, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Child death, Classism, Colonisation, Death of parent, Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, and Vomit

effingunicorns's review against another edition

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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child death

Minor: Child abuse and Sexual assault

hydecircus's review against another edition

dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

I'm going to miss Jade forever she truely is one of the best protagonists in the world to me. I know "we can't pick our genre" but I am sad she and Letha didn't get together, but at least we got confirmation that Jade is into women and honestly who knows what the future holds for them... But God. What a final installment. I love how well this book balances so many different types of killers at once and yet ties it all together in the end... Oh Jade... I'll miss you forever.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, Murder, Pedophilia, Racism, Self harm, Sexual harassment, Animal death, Death of parent, Blood, Child abuse, Classism, Death, Suicide attempt, Violence, Drug abuse, Gore, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Emotional abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Classism, Alcohol, Colonisation, Grief, Incest, and Car accident

poetsofsweetpea's review

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

It is always a shock to me when a horror novel wrecks me.  It's not that it is hard to bring me to tears, coffee commercials at Christmas time can do it.  It's just, when a novel spends a good amount of time ripping the guts from its characters, I figure mine are safe.  The Angel of Indian Lake though, gutted me.  It's not just that I love Jade. She's one of the few characters in fiction that I genuinely adore, that I want to reach into the pages of the book and shake because she can't see how special she is. It's also because her growth is so completely perfect.   While the other novels in the series felt like love letters to the genre of slashers, this third and final installment felt, to me, like an homage to the American experience.  In that it highlighted our obsession with pop culture until it mirrors our everyday lives.  The seeds may come from foreign places, but the fruit is all ours, the soil, the climate, and the future of the plant are in the hands of the depraved and brave.  There are so many things I want to say about this novel. I want to write about why this book made me cry, but I hate spoilers in reviews.  I'm also never sure if it is just me or if every reader will love it as much as I do.  There were fewer POV's in this one and I was grateful for that.  The POV's that emerge also had voices that were different. I was never lost in who was telling me the story.  I am glad most of it was from Jade. I listened to the audio book and having Steven King be the voice of the teacher was so perfect.  I almost don't want to tell anyone, just so it can hit them the way it hit me.   In a lot of ways The Angel of Indian Lake felt like three books, like there were three final scenes.  The book was full of blood.  It was leaking out on every page, but it also had heart. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Suicide, Terminal illness, Fire/Fire injury, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Animal death, Pedophilia, Suicide attempt, Alcohol, Blood, Child abuse, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Vomit, Body horror, Death, Drug use, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Self harm, Toxic friendship, Violence, Suicidal thoughts, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Gun violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Gore, Kidnapping, Murder, Child death, Police brutality, Stalking, and Torture

bcvogel90's review against another edition

dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Violence, Blood, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Death of parent, Murder, and Animal death

Moderate: Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Kidnapping, Suicide attempt, and Suicide

Minor: Child death, Incest, Pedophilia, and Self harm

henrygravesprince's review

dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

Oh, Jenny, Jennifer, J.D., Jade.

I’m seriously starting to question if it’s possible for SGJ to bite off more than he can chew, because you would think with all of the things he’s attempting to do in this book, that if he could, it would be now. But instead, this book succeeds in being jam-packed to the gills with ideas, visceral gore, gut-wrenching tragedy and the brutal beauty of horror, and tying up each of the loose ends from the previous installments, weaving all of the thematic threads into one, without being off any worse for it. It falls in the middle of the pacing of the first and second books, full of action from the get-go without feeling rushed or bogged down. While the second book was about cycles, this book is about putting an end to them. It brings a parallel between the ways Jade’s parents failed her

—her father’s abuse, her mother’s inaction—

and shows us the snap in that cycle of harm,

shows us instead a dutiful, loving father and a mother who will go to the ends of earth to do right by her daughter in Letha and Banner

. This book was dedicated to Jason Voorhees, and I think I can see why: the love and fury of Pamela Voorhees sings through this book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Child death, and Child abuse

Moderate: Death, Death of parent, Kidnapping, Fire/Fire injury, and Gore

Minor: Ableism, Colonisation, Cultural appropriation, and Forced institutionalization

readingwithkaitlyn's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Death of parent, Body horror, Gun violence, Murder, Death, Child death, Violence, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, and Grief

Moderate: Drug use, Suicidal thoughts, Drug abuse, Racism, Medical content, Mental illness, Self harm, Religious bigotry, Emotional abuse, Classism, Torture, and Animal death

Minor: Alcoholism, Rape, Genocide, Sexual content, Pandemic/Epidemic, Pedophilia, Car accident, Excrement, Alcohol, Confinement, Sexual assault, Vomit, Forced institutionalization, Pregnancy, Suicide, Abandonment, and Ableism

grimdark_dad's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gore, Death of parent, Kidnapping, Blood, Sexual assault, Grief, Violence, Animal death, Fire/Fire injury, Murder, Death, Gun violence, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, and Vomit

jayla_hh's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.0

Got confused in the middle there but I got back. Great end to the trilogy.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Injury/Injury detail, and Gore

Moderate: Murder and Kidnapping