Reviews with content warning for Death - Night of the Mannequins

I loved this - the writing style was perfect for our MC, and led me to imagine an ending that was far better than the one we were given. Fantastic, fast paced and easy to read up until the last chapter.

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hanyaya's review

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challenging dark emotional tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

The Only Good Indians' monstrous-in-a-different-way little brother

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mfrisk's review

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dark sad tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

As a few other negative reviewers have mentioned I’m perplexed that this has been hyped up the way it has as a slasher or even a creature feature. It is not that.

What we get instead is the delusions of a teenage boy with plenty of creepy comments about women too.

I don’t recommend this read and the only reason it’s getting 2 stars instead of 1 is because of the beginning and when there was a sense of mystery was interesting but it just goes downhill from there.

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sarah_shelf's review against another edition

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dark tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

2.0

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ruthypoo2's review against another edition

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adventurous dark tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

A fun book to read with an excellent first person narrative that just moves along at a pace continuously ramping up like a tornado gaining speed on its path of destruction. This story full-on owns the quirkiness frequently found in Stephen Graham Jones books like Mongrels. I think this author has a very pure voice through his teen protagonists, and in this case, it’s a boy named Sawyer who’s paying a steep price for a movie theatre prank gone awry.

This book can easily be devoured in one sitting. And most readers will feel compelled to stay with it as the story keeps you off kilter and dying to get further into the story to see where it’s actually going and what Sawyer’s fate will be. I listened to the audiobook and feel the narrator, Gary Tiedemann, was excellent in voicing Sawyer’s inner monologue and interactions with the world around him.

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_fallinglight_'s review against another edition

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dark mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

I was getting very 80s vibes from this book and it definitely works better to set it then seeing how the MC is having a psychotic break and he's the murderer after all and that's the spooky factor is a reveal that's from that time period, being real. Yeah, being inside Sawyer's mind is creepy and sad bc at no point in the story is the living mannequin a real possibility so it's just delusions and atrophied logic all the time. But the whole premise is kinda insensitive at the same time? Like idk if it's right to use psychosis like this for scares? I also feel slightly bamboozled bc I thought there was gonna be an actual living killer mannequin on the loose but no. This book was kinda ass but I didn't loathe it and the writing was all right for the most part but I still wasted my time.

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cneighbors36's review

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dark fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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traa's review

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dark funny tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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