The Buffalo Hunter Hunter
4.2 | 2,472 ratings
Price: 14.99
Last update: 12-20-2025
Product details
- ASIN : B0D6WL1XJ1
- Publisher : S&S/Saga Press
- Accessibility :
- Publication date : March 18, 2025
- Language : English
- File size : 2.7 MB
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Print length : 448 pages
- ISBN-13 : 978-1668075104
- Page Flip : Enabled
- Best Sellers Rank:#34 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
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- Customer Reviews:4.24.2 out of 5 stars(2,471)
Top reviews from the United States
- alex cordovaChallenging book, but pays offThis book is told in three narratives, each told in first person from a different POV. One narrative is a Lutheran Pastor named Arthur in a small town in Montana in 1912. The second POV is a mysterious Indian man named good stab who is an unexpected attendee of the Pastor's sermon. The third is a college professor in 2013 who happens to be a descended of the Pastor. Each narrator has a very unique voice, and the audiobook uses three different voices for each POV. It's amazing all POVs were written by the same author they are so different.
The story starts when someone finds the Pastor's diary in the walls of an old church in 2012. It must have been an awful thick diary because it sure contains a lot of story. In fact, the bulk of this book is the contents of the diary. The diary is written by the Pastor and it contains his POV starting the day Good Stab starts attending his sermon. It also contains Good Stabs POV as Good Stab starts telling a confession to The Pastor who decides to write it down in the diary.
This book starts in 2012 from the professors POV, then jumps to the Pastor's diary, then jumps back to the professors POV in the end. The professor's POV is told as diary entries as well.
Personally, I found the Pastor's POV a little hard to get through due to his immense vocabulary and archaic writing style. Good Stab's POV has a slow start but gets epic over time. His POV is hard to follow too because of the names he gives to animals and people. It would have been helpful if there were a glossary of Good Stab's terminology in the back, in my opinion. I still don't know what some of the animals he was referring to here. I like the professor's albeit brief POV, which switches to an audio transcription at one point.
Overall, a hard book to read and you may need a dictionary handy. Some chapters are long and there are no section breaks. The start is slow but the payoff is good. Includes a lot of true historical events and might include vampires too. - Phantom QueenA unique vampire revenge taleI really liked this unique vampire tale with a Native American slant. Set in the Old West, it’s the story of Good Stab, once a proud Blackfoot warrior who is turned into a vampire. It’s also about Arthur Beaucarne, a Lutheran pastor, who has a tragic history with Good Stab. His modern-day descendant also has a part in this revenge story.
The vampires are interesting. They aren’t like Dracula or Ann Rice creatures, but also not as grotesque as The Strain blood drinkers. One thing I found interesting is that if they drink too much of one thing, human or animal, they become that thing.
The distinctive first-person POVs for all these characters were spot-on, and the descriptions of the setting immersed me in the story, making me feel as though I was in the Old West.
That being said, the book slogged for most of the story for me. It took too long to get to the main event, and it seemed like the author was filling up space to reach a higher word count. Also, Etsy, Arthur’s ancestor, is introduced at the beginning, but we don’t hear from her again until the end. I forgot all about her. Despite the slow pace, I managed to finish this book. I was pleased, but not particularly surprised, by the ending. Revenge is sweeter when it’s cold, after all.
I recommend this book to readers looking for a different vampire tale. - Emily SimpsonThis book should be either in your hands or on your bookshelfAlright, look, it's only been two days since I finished this but it hasn't left my mind for a second. I didn't need that time to process what star rating to leave, I knew earlier than any other book I've ever read this would be five stars. How did I know? Let me just expose you to two of the most brilliant, poetic, subtle, vivid, made-me-feral depictions of characters/their auras:
"...my weight unaccountably on my heels, as if I were a young boy in the presence of my father, never mind that my age has to be at least twice this Dove's. Such is the authority some men introduce into social situations."
"But when you have his posture, can hitch the front of your pants up as he's wont to do, and can set the heel of your boot upon the very body we all came to view, then you hardly need vocabulary at all, do you?"
When I first found this book a year ago, somehow I missed the supernatural part (I'm convinced the blurb changed and my memory is fine), I knew I'd be reading it shortly after its release (I wanted to select it for a bookclub when it was my turn to pick). I've read longer books in considerably less time than it took to finish this (no, I'm not including the two breaks I needed to cry (spoiler hidden)).
"What I am is the Indian who can't die. I'm the worst dream America ever had."
It's easy for readers to become immersed in the book they're reading, to fall into a terrible place where atrocious things are happening, but then look up and immediately feel at ease with the recognition that setting, that event, is fiction. But such isn't always the case here (maybe the vampire bits did happen, I certainly don't know). I think that really impacts how some readers will progress through the book. This horrifying historical fiction is rife with trigger warnings and is a dense story because the Maria's Massacre actually happened. Anybody who's taken an American history course knows that "the humor of the west knows no bounds, respects no boundaries," and terrible things happened here. You're going to be on "the bad guy's" side for this one. For [almost] every dreadful, meaningful moment. At times confusing (learning the Pikuni and later some German words; to be clear, I loved this inclusion which added an air of authenticity), at others horrifying, challenging, compelling, devastating, and satisfying. This book is terrible. This book is incredible. This book should be either in your hands or on your bookshelf.
Oh, I'm sorry, those earlier quotes weren't goldenly inked into your very core? Here are a few of my other favorite snippets of pure perfection, without giving too much of the story away...
"I would like to be part of the secret totem beneath his shirt, held close and important to his chest forevermore."
"...until, like a mushroom, it sends fibrous tendrils out into the more vulnerable parts of a humble pastor."
Or even this which, really, encapsulates everything you need to know about the book if you somehow skipped the blurb...
"The depravity of man's heart knows no floor, and everyone in this hard country has a sordid chapter in the story of their life, that they're trying either to atone for, or stay ahead of. It's what binds us to the other."
My preorder was delivered on release day in a beautiful package. I am in love with the red sprayed edges that I didn't expect or know about until the book arrived. It was in perfect condition, and had the most pungent, beautiful new book smell of any of my new book purchases this year.
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