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The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
4.0
adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Very horrifying stream-of-consciousness horror novel. Establishes early on that everyone's getting killed, usually in a stupid way. Plenty of gore for everyone, but the dog always dies. Like all good horror, it is sad as well as horrifying (which is why I didn't like horror as a kid). High wtf factor. Never quite know where this book is going. Even the sentences don't always go where I expect them to. I kept having to re-read lines because they kept making me ask “did he just say that?” Towards the end it gets like a horror movie with death fake-outs, an unstoppable killer, & a final girl.