Reviews with content warning for Murder - The Only Good Indians

Definitely one of the creepiest and most fascinating novels I have read in a while. I loved so many things about it: how it progressed, the (debatable)"antagonist", the finale, even the ending itself. I would highly recommend it to anyone who likes the genre.

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bxnnny's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

2.0

this was a bit of a challenge for me, particularly in the beginning. i found the writing in the beginning hard to follow with a lot of run-on sentences and just confusing wording. there was also a lot of very descriptive body horror, gore, and particularly hard to read animal death that made me seriously question if i wanted to continue reading or not - or if i even could bring myself to. ultimately, though, i pushed through and found the story to be a compelling one of revenge, grief, and the tale as old as time: what goes around, comes back around. again and again and again. i don't think this one was totally for me though, but the concept was there.

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dark sad tense slow-paced

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

3.25

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lindsaylhunter's review against another edition

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dark reflective 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

3.5

Tough one to get into initially - 100 pages in and I finally got used to the author's writing style. Nice mix of tension and gore. The author seems to really like basketball...?

But I'll not lie,

I was kind of pissed at the ending. I spent the whole book (as soon as the author clues us into what's going on) rooting for the elk cow, so for her not to exact full vengeance on Denorah was a bit anticlimactic.

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