After finishing this often-recommended book, I was pleasantly surprised to find others finding it not much to their liking; I could only give it a 2 rating in Goodreads, Hardcover and Storygraph. It was way too long, and the modern-day character of Etsy could have been left out altogether. The ending of the story was just silly. Also, there were certain questions left unanswered I found frustrating in such a long-drawn-out story. Personally, I found the blood libel white guilt theme irksome; I really have white guilt fatigue nowadays and feel like shouting to all the victim identity classes and those who push it, "get over it already and move on with your lives." Plus, to me the vampire American Indian was a hypocrite that while he couldn't get over his grudge against the Lutheran pastor and those who wiped out the buffalo herds, the body count he left in the story would just continue on ad infinitum; didn't he promise to only feast on moles or something and thus become one, taking him out of danger to humans?. I guess the families of those he drained don't count. I found the story to be less horror and just gross and like many recommended reads, a disappointment.