One of my favorite things about his writing is the way that women often listen better to the lessons of nature and life and therefore get rewarded for that in the end. He’s one of my favorite horror authors anyway but the way he does “final girls” by giving them true autonomy and smart approaches to their problems just makes that even more true for me!

Okay, accidentally started this one and Off the Reservation by Stephen Graham Jones at the same time, and let me tell you: reading about the disgusting and horrific treatment of minorities by colonizer white people and seeing how similarly they debased people of color is both enlightening and terrifying. In the current climate, I’m trying to read all I can from groups I am AND groups I’m not a part of because the more we acknowledge history both in its horror and (kinda) good aspects, the better prepared we are to be empathetic and empowered for change in the future. Along side reading horror books from Black American authors and Native authors, I’ve read horror from Latinx community authors, Asian American authors, Hawaiian authors, and one thing they all have in common is the fact that part of the horror comes from the people in power - the white people. It’s time for a look inside the mirror people. We need to read these stories and stop allowing crimes against humanity to be perpetrated against our sisters and brothers of color even today. Long rant aside, this book is already so freaking good. But we cannot and should not separate the art from the artist on this and I believe horror as a genre being used to show the atrocities committed against Black people and other POCs is a wonderful and clever use of traditional storytelling.