Firelands

This was an exciting horror novel featuring a gay protagonist and a wendigo set in the American Frontier in 1799. In fact, it was so exciting I stayed up most of the night to finish it. It's the second book of a series called "The Savage Land" though I didn't realize it until I read up a little more on it afterwards. The main character of the first book is a supporting character in this book and the Firelands reads as a standalone novel very well. The prose is sumptuous without interfering with the movement of the plot. I don't know if the gay experience is authentic for the time and place, as I doubt if there is any real record of it from that time period, but I found it believable. It also gives us some perspective of the Native Americans living near the white settlements, as well as that of a gay Native American. This book was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award for Sci Fi/Fantasy/Horror in 2005.

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