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4.27 AVERAGE
4.27 AVERAGE
adventurous
dark
emotional
informative
mysterious
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
This book is amazing, Im just waiting for my loan so I can finish it
dark
sad
The middle section of this book is so very good. The beginning & ending weren’t great. The beginning started out a little slow & then by the end, I was ready for it to be done.
I read a review when I wasn’t quite enjoying this book yet— the review mentioned looking up Marias Massacre on Wikipedia. Definitely recommend reading up on it as it added a lot of historical context & offered a solid perspective on Good Stab’s actions.
I also want to note that there are a lot of Pikuni terms used. Which I think is beautiful because at its heart this is story about Native Americans & all they endured & lost when white colonizers came for them & their land. I didn’t understand a lot of the animals mentioned in Pikuni terms but in my mind that’s also kind of the point.
Even though I didn’t enjoy all parts of this book - I still recommend. A bloody revenge story that is built upon historical events makes this horror story all the more horrifying.
I read a review when I wasn’t quite enjoying this book yet— the review mentioned looking up Marias Massacre on Wikipedia. Definitely recommend reading up on it as it added a lot of historical context & offered a solid perspective on Good Stab’s actions.
I also want to note that there are a lot of Pikuni terms used. Which I think is beautiful because at its heart this is story about Native Americans & all they endured & lost when white colonizers came for them & their land. I didn’t understand a lot of the animals mentioned in Pikuni terms but in my mind that’s also kind of the point.
Even though I didn’t enjoy all parts of this book - I still recommend. A bloody revenge story that is built upon historical events makes this horror story all the more horrifying.
adventurous
dark
mysterious
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
mysterious
reflective
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter is a truly incredible novel. It calls to mind Toni Morrison's Beloved (a comparison I don't make lightly), as both use the fantastic to deal with the un-/underaccounted traumas and long shadows of North American settler colonialism. Like Beloved, too, it is also really, really well written.
In this novel, Jones examines classic vampire lore through Indigenous perspective, specifically through the worldviews, lifeways, and history of the Blackfeet people (of whom Jones is one). What this does, quite cleverly and never too obviously, is highlight the fundamental European-ness of the vampire. Vampires are, by nature, solitary, while to be Blackfeet is to be in community: as the Indigenous narrator of the novel says, "To be a Pikuni and be alone is to not be a person anymore." Jones also cleverly uses vampire lore to highlight the wastefulness of European buffalo hunting practices, a wastefulness that led to the animals' near extinction in North America by the turn of the 20th century. Lots of his writing choices work to subtly upend Eurocentric (particularly Enlightenment) modes of writing in English - the unique and very embodied use of gesture in the text stands out as one, and I'm sure there are more choices I've missed in my own reading.
All of which is to say, not only is The Buffalo Hunter Hunter a remarkable and monumental piece of vampire fiction; it is also, in my opinion, a masterpiece of postcolonial literature.
In this novel, Jones examines classic vampire lore through Indigenous perspective, specifically through the worldviews, lifeways, and history of the Blackfeet people (of whom Jones is one). What this does, quite cleverly and never too obviously, is highlight the fundamental European-ness of the vampire. Vampires are, by nature, solitary, while to be Blackfeet is to be in community: as the Indigenous narrator of the novel says, "To be a Pikuni and be alone is to not be a person anymore." Jones also cleverly uses vampire lore to highlight the wastefulness of European buffalo hunting practices, a wastefulness that led to the animals' near extinction in North America by the turn of the 20th century. Lots of his writing choices work to subtly upend Eurocentric (particularly Enlightenment) modes of writing in English - the unique and very embodied use of gesture in the text stands out as one, and I'm sure there are more choices I've missed in my own reading.
All of which is to say, not only is The Buffalo Hunter Hunter a remarkable and monumental piece of vampire fiction; it is also, in my opinion, a masterpiece of postcolonial literature.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Genocide, Gore, Racism, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Alcoholism, Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Gun violence, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Fire/Fire injury, Cultural appropriation, Alcohol, War
Minor: Forced institutionalization, Pandemic/Epidemic
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
mysterious
sad
tense
medium-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
Content Warnings
Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Rape, Colonisation
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
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
dark
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Not in the mood for another gruesome and awful story!
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
slow-paced
Loveable characters:
No