Ten years ago, four young men shot some elk then went on with their lives. It happens every year; it's been happening forever; it's the way it's always been. But this time it's different. Ten years after that fateful hunt, these men are being stalked themselves. Soaked with a powerful gothic atmosphere, the endless expanses of the landscape press down on these men - and their children - as the ferocious spirit comes for them one at a time.
The Only Good Indians, charts Nature's revenge on a lost generation that maybe never had a chance. Cleaved to their heritage, these parents, husbands, sons and Indians, men live on the fringes of a society that has rejected them, refusing to challenge their exile to limbo.
A contemporary gothic thriller from one of the genre's most exciting voices, The Only Good Indians will delight fans of Adam Nevill's The Ritual and Liane Moriarty's Big Little Lies.
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[The headline for Richard Boss Ribs would be Indian Man Killed in Dispute Outside Bar]***
(@TitanBooks, 21 July 2020, 352 pages, e-book, #ARC from the publisher via # NetGalley and voluntarily reviewed)
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I had high hopes for this as I enjoyed the author's novel Mongrels so much. I enjoyed this book though the POV of switches about halfway through to being focused through a particular character to focusing on a group of characters. This switch took a few chapters to get used to. This is a horror novel but a bit different from the stuff I usually read, focusing more on Native American folklore and horror. The main drive of the story is dark repercussions from hunting a herd of ten years before the book starts. Jones combines personal horror with ancestral horror of Native American genocide which is something I haven't come across before. This is a very powerful novel but quite intense and I could only read it in small chunks. The title, as you probably know is taken from the famous phrase the only good Indian is a dead Indian. The supernatural force pursuing the characters is vividly written. This is very original and I enjoyed the time I spent with it.
