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A review by sunkenbooks
The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
adventurous
challenging
dark
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.5
Uhm, ok so this book... exists. It's good but also not good. The concept? Amazing. The horror elements? Give me more right now. The scare factor? Oh God yes! The writing? Meh. I just don't think I like how Jones writes honestly, it was so slogging and hard to get through most of the time that this was my longest read for the first time in a while.
I feel like his writing style has the energy of me trying to be impressive in middle school by using all of the thesaurus but still using "says" 744 times in a chapter. It's repetitive but also not as the words change but it says the same thing over and over again.
However the parts that are fight/scary/action scenes are really good. That scene with Lewis and Shaney, god that will live in my head for a long time.
I feel like his writing style has the energy of me trying to be impressive in middle school by using all of the thesaurus but still using "says" 744 times in a chapter. It's repetitive but also not as the words change but it says the same thing over and over again.
However the parts that are fight/scary/action scenes are really good. That scene with Lewis and Shaney, god that will live in my head for a long time.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Cursing, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, and Alcohol