A review by natreviews
Stolen Tongues by Felix Blackwell

Did not finish book. Stopped at 4%.

5.0

This book is a great example of how you write horror.

It’s amazing to see what came from the r/nosleep story. I’ve only read the first couple of chapters of the online version, and after hearing about this from the Jenna and Julien Podcast, I thought fuck it and ordered it.

This book is grounded in reality, with a supernatural twist. It balances this very well, making you actually terrified because you feel this could happen to you. You become half-way through the book where you feel that it should end, but it keeps on going. For a good reason. It kind of answers the question of “What happens to the characters after they escape the monster?”

Now I will say, I found the ending to be a little weak. I like the ending, don’t get me wrong. The epilogue though felt a little too good feeling for me.

This will not deter me from giving it 5/5 though. Honeslty, if you can read this book. I will also give credit to the little piece at the end about having non-Indigenous peoples writing a out Indigenous peoples. He didn’t need to add that, but I love how he felt he needed to. Wish more authors would do this.