The Only Good Indians

I really enjoyed the bulk of this novel, but the final section was a bit much for me personally. The same way that Stephen King can drag a story out, can take something scary and make it absurdly funny, Jones does here. Maybe that's just horror. I don't need the scary antagonist who has been very meticulous in their brutality up to this point, to reach the climax of the story and start offering up monologues, or performing a song and dance, or playing a game of basketball. It doesn't work for me, and I felt like that whole final section could've been done differently and this would've been a much scarier, much more effective, and much better book. But it definitely works for King, and I'm not typically a reader of horror, so I'm far from an expert. That's just my personal take.

That said, there's a lot of great writing in this novel, and the same way I return to King every once in a while to satiate that need for a good scary story (always accompanied with a heavy dose of eye rolling), I imagine I'll be returning to the work of Stephen Graham Jones.