Stolen Tongues

This can be looked at as either an impressively good creepypasta or an OK novel. I think the author has a lot of talent, but this book does show the importance of a good editor.

I highly recommend reading the prologue regardless - it's a little capsule creepy tale of its own, that I found incredibly effective.

The rest of the story has some truly scary, well-written horror as well, but it gets bogged down in repetition and some nonsensical character motivations. Also, I found it doubly wearing to read the cycle of Faye's nighttime woes and Felix's reactions, because it made the female character seem less and less capable and three-dimensional as it repeated.

I do appreciate the author's note about his decision to include indigenous American people as characters. Some might criticize it as the same old “mystical native understands magic,” but I think he succeeded in his effort to depict these characters as normal, multidimensional, modern humans who don't have mystical answers, and along with that he gives a good reminder that native peoples are many and varied - not a monolith by any stretch of the imagination.

All in all, this is well worth checking out. I just won't blame you if you wind up skimming some of the mid-to-late chapters.