Stolen Tongues

I have a lot of mixed feelings on this one as I could give it 1-3 stars and I'm not sure yet what will win out.

I think it was a good scary story for the most part, but the more it went on the more gripes I managed to have against it.

Full spoilers on that under the cut, but basically, the ending sucked, the “reveal” for why the monster was tormenting this woman was real dumb and it's overall pretty tone deaf.

The rating immediately dropped when they killed the native father and then even more with the son. It just didn't sit right with me as I was reading it to begin with and it is sitting even worse when the ONLY people who die are two of the three native people. I do believe that he was trying to be mindful but there are such clear blind spots that it's pretty frustrating. He kind of did the exact thing he said in his essay that he didn't want to do. The ending was some bullshit too. I figured out the whole baby thing when they're all like “what makes five” and I'm like okay but what about it. And apparently nothing about it. Her baby brother was still born and she was so deeply traumatized by it and her family never told her all these years, like it was some weird closely guarded secret? I hate so many things about it. And then you're gonna kill off these two natives but then the creature just decides for the whites they've actually been bothering to completely torment this whole time “oh the secret of your trauma is your unborn brother, that's fine I'll just see myself out then.” Tell me how any of that even makes sense? Too straight and white man for me.

Another thing is that why the hell is the MC also Felix. Idk that alone gave me bad vibes.