Reviews tagging 'Blood'

Night of the Mannequins by Stephen Graham Jones

19 reviews

dertwolf's review

dark mysterious 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? Yes

3.0

I picked this up because the library didn't have the SJG book I was looking for, and it was short. I guess I liked it? I read it really fast, which isn't something I do lately. It kept me strangely engaged. I didn't hate it, but didn't love it, and wouldn't recommend it to someone else if asked.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Murder

Moderate: Mental illness

moonylovesstars's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Death, Violence, Blood, Child death, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Gore, Mental illness, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

killmoore_'s review

dark fast-paced

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

3.75

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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Injury/Injury detail, Body horror, Child death, Murder, Blood, Death, Mental illness, and Suicidal thoughts

directorpurry's review

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Violence, Murder, and Blood

Moderate: Animal death

traa's review

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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Car accident, Child death, Death, Murder, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Gore, Stalking, Grief, Mental illness, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Gun violence

Minor: Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Bullying, Mass/school shootings, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Death of parent

diadoodle's review

challenging mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

1.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Mental illness, Death, and Murder

jillaay_h's review

challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Blood

daniellekat's review against another edition

slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot

2.0

This started out good but I found the storytelling too long winded, I had lost interest by the second half. I really liked the writing style though. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Car accident

chloseencounter's review

medium-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

1.0

Night of the Mannequins was one of the shortest stories on my TBR so I decided to throw it in to my Halloween reads and this was probably the worst book I’ve read in awhile. I actually really wanted to DNF it but I hate to do that especially to a novel that’s only roughly 140 pages, so I stuck it out and it was all pretty lackluster. 

The description of the book sounds so fun and interesting, I think this could have been a fun teen romp slasher style

but truthfully it was only a psychotic boy’s ramblings. I disliked the main character so much that just having him narrate the book was sort of irritating. Also for a book seemingly advertised as a slasher, every kill was the exact same which isn’t very interesting or fun. I feel like if you’re gonna do it, take it all the way and make it way more gory and ridiculous. If the author did that, I think this could’ve been more enjoyable but mostly it was just boring and for such a short novel, felt repetitive.

 

I wouldn’t recommend this one unless you’re super desperate for a short story, it was mostly unexciting and unremarkable. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Violence, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Cursing and Stalking

Minor: Suicidal thoughts

bookishbutch's review against another edition

dark sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Stalking, Grief, Death, Toxic friendship, Blood, Mental illness, and Child death

Moderate: Schizophrenia/Psychosis and Cursing