It’s gory, it’s obsessed with trash—and it’s brilliant.
Jade spends most of the novel trying to figure out whose revenge is about to kick into spectacularly gory effect and attempting to coach the baffled Letha on the role that Jade believes will soon be thrust upon her. She sees herself not as the main character but as a peripheral figure, less a supporting role than the representative of a horror film’s invisible audience, shouting out advice that the heroine can neither hear nor heed. “There’s no camera on her, she knows,” Jones writes of Jade.
”Jones is the author of more than two dozen books, but his fame accelerated with the publication last year ofa novel about four friends, members of the Blackfeet tribe, haunted by their role in a long-ago massacre of a forbidden herd of elk. A similar wildlife slaughter occurs inbecause this novel is nothing if not a web of allusions to other works.
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