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A review by jjwalkerwrites
The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
5.0
Sometimes you finish a book and all you want to do is tell someone about it. The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones is one of those books.
Without going into spoilers, it centres on four American Indian men haunted, and hunted, by an illegal elk hunt that happened ten years prior. The story is a true page-turner, split into different sections that recount the experiences of each character.
It felt more like a sprint than a marathon and is filled with visceral, brutal language (I’ll never look at elk the same way again), bloody horror (at its heart the book’s a slasher) and experiences that don’t shy away from what it’s like to live as an Indian in America today.
As a book that made a lot of noise in the horror world, I entered with high expectations. I’m happy to say the noise was well placed!
Review originally published in this After Dusk newsletter.
Without going into spoilers, it centres on four American Indian men haunted, and hunted, by an illegal elk hunt that happened ten years prior. The story is a true page-turner, split into different sections that recount the experiences of each character.
It felt more like a sprint than a marathon and is filled with visceral, brutal language (I’ll never look at elk the same way again), bloody horror (at its heart the book’s a slasher) and experiences that don’t shy away from what it’s like to live as an Indian in America today.
As a book that made a lot of noise in the horror world, I entered with high expectations. I’m happy to say the noise was well placed!
Review originally published in this After Dusk newsletter.