HuckleBuck411
I found this often-recommended vampire horror story to be way too long. It would have been better just to tell the story of the two main characters, the American Indian vampire and the German pastor and leave out the front and end parts dealing with the modern-day cat-lady ancestor of the pastor. The ending just got silly. Even with those changes the story could have been pared down quite a bit. The blood libel premise of a vampire seeking revenge on the family of a man who caused an American Indian massacre is just another of those white guilt tropes that have been over-hyped. Add to that the ever-present pushed white guilt over the killing off of the buffalo herds. It just seems hypocritical that while the vampire can't let go of his grudge, at the same time the death toll from his feeding to survive will continue ad infinitum. Maybe I'm missing something and that is the author's point, but it didn't come across to me that way. So, like in so many cases, a praised and recommended book I found to be a personal disappointment.
I found this often-recommended vampire horror story to be way too long. It would have been better just to tell the story of the two main characters, the American Indian vampire and the German pastor and leave out the front and end parts dealing with the modern-day cat-lady ancestor of the pastor. The ending just got silly. Even with those changes the story could have been pared down quite a bit. The blood libel premise of a vampire seeking revenge on the family of a man who caused an American Indian massacre is just another of those white guilt tropes that have been over-hyped. Add to that the ever-present pushed white guilt over the killing off of the buffalo herds. It just seems hypocritical that while the vampire can't let go of his grudge, at the same time the death toll from his feeding to survive will continue ad infinitum. Maybe I'm missing something and that is the author's point, but it didn't come across to me that way. So, like in so many cases, a praised and recommended book I found to be a personal disappointment.