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I also read Lee Mandelo's novella earlier this month, Feed Them Silence, and I still don't know what my thoughts are on that book - I just know that it made me want to write like a10-page essay on the relationship dynamic and I feel that way about Summer Sons as well.

Crazy enough, that one's also about a messed up deal and it was inspired by Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, which is one of my favorite classics, so kind of makes sense that's how it panned out.

It's funny, it's sharp, it's genuinely tragic. I think I wound up giving it four stars, maybe 4 and a half. Still thoughts to come, but I thought it was beautiful and I think it might be my favorite of Stephen Graham Jones books that I've read.

To be fair, the first book I ever read by Stephen Graham Jones was his novella Mapping the Interior which is a ghost story that's also about a boy mourning his father, so I'm familiar with Stephen Graham Jones and his ability to make the horrific very emotional and I'm anticipating that continuing.

Night of the Mannequins, which I loved. Unreliable narrator, creepy.

Did I enjoy the process of reading the book? Yes. Was it beautifully written? Yes. Did it, like, capture an atmosphere and a mystery? Absolutely. I think it's that it felt so meandering that I just couldn't get into the flow of the story, and I know a lot of that is because Andrew as a main character is extremely lost in his grief.

If that appeals to you, and that is one of my favorite scenes in the history of anything, then Summer Sons is definitely the one for you.

At one point I read about half of The Only Good Indians and I haven't finished that yet, but it was deeply unsettling.

I think I made it to about like 28% of the way through but I'm done. I don't like how This Wretched Valley is written. The characters are horrible and not in, like, a fun way or an interesting way.