The Only Good Indians is a novel about four friends who break with honor and illegally poach and slaughter a mass of elk. Their kills are wasted when they are caught by the law. Flash forward into the future. The friends have mostly drifted away and they are one by one, hunted down by something dark and angry. Each of them is killed in a horrible and gruesome way. This does not stop whatever it is that has been hunting the men down. It wants the ultimate revenge.
This novel was written in three parts which allows the reader to seamlessly move between time, place and the characters involved. At times it is the mysterious spirit that is narrating the story and other times it is told from the perspective of the character. I felt like there was another narrator who was unseen, almost like the whole tale is being told as a single story, like a shaman is telling the story to his tribe to impart a history and/or a moral. I enjoyed this novel and read it very quickly.
This novel was written in three parts which allows the reader to seamlessly move between time, place and the characters involved. At times it is the mysterious spirit that is narrating the story and other times it is told from the perspective of the character. I felt like there was another narrator who was unseen, almost like the whole tale is being told as a single story, like a shaman is telling the story to his tribe to impart a history and/or a moral. I enjoyed this novel and read it very quickly.