The Buffalo Hunter Hunter
Ratings16
Average rating3.6
Vague spoilers included: Stephen Graham Jones creates an absorbing new vampire mythology but in the last play misses the basket/TD/goal/run. The final scene was "meh" with vague motivation and reasoning, and includes a discrepancy with something established earlier in the book. Would the ultimate act accomplish the intended result? Prior incidents in the book suggest perhaps not. The author's afterward suggests 'why' this happened, but the rewritten frame story feels like a rush to publication. 95% great and 5% flat. Unfortunately, the 5% was the ending.
Vague spoilers included: Stephen Graham Jones creates an absorbing new vampire mythology but in the last play misses the basket/TD/goal/run. The final scene was "meh" with vague motivation and reasoning, and includes a discrepancy with something established earlier in the book. Would the ultimate act accomplish the intended result? Prior incidents in the book suggest perhaps not. The author's afterward suggests 'why' this happened, but the rewritten frame story feels like a rush to publication. 95% great and 5% flat. Unfortunately, the 5% was the ending.
I’m not sure that this book really knew what it wanted to be. While theoretically horror, there was very little suspense or tension. The pacing was off, the prose was hard to handle, and the whole ending was just plain tough to read. It felt like a story that could have been so much better if written by a different author who understood horror better.
I’m not sure that this book really knew what it wanted to be. While theoretically horror, there was very little suspense or tension. The pacing was off, the prose was hard to handle, and the whole ending was just plain tough to read. It felt like a story that could have been so much better if written by a different author who understood horror better.
