I really struggled understanding the writing (style). It felt like not much is happening, even though I got to 58% before giving up. I kept having to go back like 10 pages and reread constantly.
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This book should be either in your hands or on your bookshelf
Alright, look, it's only been two days since I finished this but it hasn't left my mind for a second. I didn't need that time to process what star rating to leave, I knew earlier than any other book I've ever read this would be five stars. How did I know? Let me just expose you to two of the most brilliant, poetic, subtle, vivid, made-me-feral depictions of characters/their auras:Emily SimpsonThis book should be either in your hands or on your bookshelf
Beoordeeld in de Verenigde Staten op 24 april 2025
"...my weight unaccountably on my heels, as if I were a young boy in the presence of my father, never mind that my age has to be at least twice this Dove's. Such is the authority some men introduce into social situations."
"But when you have his posture, can hitch the front of your pants up as he's wont to do, and can set the heel of your boot upon the very body we all came to view, then you hardly need vocabulary at all, do you?"
When I first found this book a year ago, somehow I missed the supernatural part (I'm convinced the blurb changed and my memory is fine), I knew I'd be reading it shortly after its release (I wanted to select it for a bookclub when it was my turn to pick). I've read longer books in considerably less time than it took to finish this (no, I'm not including the two breaks I needed to cry (spoiler hidden)).
"What I am is the Indian who can't die. I'm the worst dream America ever had."
It's easy for readers to become immersed in the book they're reading, to fall into a terrible place where atrocious things are happening, but then look up and immediately feel at ease with the recognition that setting, that event, is fiction. But such isn't always the case here (maybe the vampire bits did happen, I certainly don't know). I think that really impacts how some readers will progress through the book. This horrifying historical fiction is rife with trigger warnings and is a dense story because the Maria's Massacre actually happened. Anybody who's taken an American history course knows that "the humor of the west knows no bounds, respects no boundaries," and terrible things happened here. You're going to be on "the bad guy's" side for this one. For [almost] every dreadful, meaningful moment. At times confusing (learning the Pikuni and later some German words; to be clear, I loved this inclusion which added an air of authenticity), at others horrifying, challenging, compelling, devastating, and satisfying. This book is terrible. This book is incredible. This book should be either in your hands or on your bookshelf.
Oh, I'm sorry, those earlier quotes weren't goldenly inked into your very core? Here are a few of my other favorite snippets of pure perfection, without giving too much of the story away...
"I would like to be part of the secret totem beneath his shirt, held close and important to his chest forevermore."
"...until, like a mushroom, it sends fibrous tendrils out into the more vulnerable parts of a humble pastor."
Or even this which, really, encapsulates everything you need to know about the book if you somehow skipped the blurb...
"The depravity of man's heart knows no floor, and everyone in this hard country has a sordid chapter in the story of their life, that they're trying either to atone for, or stay ahead of. It's what binds us to the other."
My preorder was delivered on release day in a beautiful package. I am in love with the red sprayed edges that I didn't expect or know about until the book arrived. It was in perfect condition, and had the most pungent, beautiful new book smell of any of my new book purchases this year.
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