The Angel of Indian Lake
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4.0 • 22 Ratings
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Publisher Description
The “riotously entertaining” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) and gruesome final installment in master of modern horror Stephen Graham Jones’s acclaimed Indian Lake trilogy—the most lauded series in the history of horror novels—picks up four years after Don’t Fear the Reaper as Jade returns to Proofrock, Idaho, to build a life after the years of sacrifice, only to find the Lake Witch is waiting for her.
It’s been four years in prison since Jade Daniels last saw her hometown of Proofrock, Idaho, the day she took the fall, protecting her friend Letha and her family from incrimination. Since then, her reputation, and the town, have changed dramatically. There’s a lot of unfinished business in Proofrock, from serial killer cultists to the rich trying to buy Western authenticity. But there’s one aspect of Proofrock no one wants to confront…until Jade comes back to town. The curse of the Lake Witch is waiting, and now is the time for the final stand.
New York Times bestselling author Stephen Graham Jones has crafted an epic horror trilogy of generational trauma from the Indigenous to the townies rooted in the mountains of Idaho. It is the story of the American west written in blood.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Horror fans, start your engines: Jade Daniel is back for a final encounter with the demons of Proofrock, Idaho, in this concluding volume of Stephen Graham Jones’ gripping trilogy. Four years after the blood-soaked events of My Heart Is a Chainsaw, Jade Daniel has left prison (again) and returned to Proofrock to take up a job in the most terrifying place of all: high school. The locals’ suspicious eyes fall on Jade when people disappear, mutilated bodies turn up, and a ghost is seen by the lake. Jade must put all of her survival skills and knowledge of slasher flicks to the test if she truly is to be the Final Girl who puts an end to the carnage once and for all. At the end of the book, we were left feeling satisfied.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Jones (Don't Fear the Reaper) brings his Jade Daniels trilogy to a bloody end in this riotously entertaining tale. It's 2023, eight years after 17-year-old slasher movie aficionado Jade was both unable to save her hometown of Proofrock, Idaho, from the gruesome events now remembered as the Independence Day Massacre and unjustly imprisoned as the perpetrator of the bloodbath. Older and wiser, Jade's working as a history teacher at her old high school in Proofrock when things start going to hell in a handbasket again: more local teenagers turn up slaughtered, a raging fire consumes the forest surrounding town, and a spectral figure dubbed "the Angel" haunts the shores of the lake that town fathers dammed up to submerge the original settlement on which Proofrock was founded. Jones weaves in plenty of clues and red herrings to keep the reader guessing just who is responsible for all the mayhem before igniting a climax that plays out like a horror film library exploding its holdings in a fiery spectacular. At the center of it all is Jade, a descendant of the Indigenous tribes displaced by Proofrock's settlers who embraces her outsider status and plays the perfect guide through this tale's weird terrain. This is a worthy finale to a series that has expanded the horizons of contemporary horror.
Customer Reviews
Alright.
The first two books in the series were great. This one had a good story but the inner monologue jade has is literally pages long at times. This probably won’t bother most but it just became hard for me to stay interested.
An ending that I did not like
The angel of Indian Lake by Stephen Graham Jones is my least favorite book of 2024 so far. The reason is because they were moments when it felt like a sure to read it. This book is a part of a trilogy. The first two books have a slow pace, but the payoff in the end is worth it. Unfortunately, this book starts off well and then drags on in the middle. Goal of reading this book was to see how it was going to end. Now that I read the ending I’m just disappointed. Jade Daniels is a character who grew on me, but it felt at times her narration rambled on and on and on. In the previous books, jades narration did not go off in tangents. I rated this book 3 stars out of five because I gave it a try, but unfortunately, the ending did not satisfy me because it felt anticlimactic.
From another Jennifer.
SGJnDoes it again. One of the best action writers I’ve ever read. Why aren’t ALL of his novels movies by now? Great to read an ending to the Proofrock Saga. Sad to see her go.
Loved to watch her stay.