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A review by goblingirlreads
Night of the Mannequins by Stephen Graham Jones
dark
medium-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
5.0
What can I say? I guess I fucking love Stephen Graham Jones. This book is NOT for everyone in fact i absolutely understand why for many people this is a 1-star book. It's dark. It strays from its title in quite a spectacular way and the narrator is a teenager and therefore writes like one. None of these things disrupted my amazing reading experience.
Something about me is I love horror books but I hate thriller books. The constant cliffhangers and forced twists in thrillers feel so tropey and annoying to me but other people love this shit. You won't find that here. There are no twists. A tried and true slasher. The surprises are in the way the narrator tells the story. We know it's a slasher and now we get to sit back, enjoy the sick, twisted narrative, the gruesome kills, and the first person perspective that goes more haywire as the story continues. SGJ knows exactly what he's doing and I'm living for it. He's my favorite Stephen writing horror and I said it.
Something about me is I love horror books but I hate thriller books. The constant cliffhangers and forced twists in thrillers feel so tropey and annoying to me but other people love this shit. You won't find that here. There are no twists. A tried and true slasher. The surprises are in the way the narrator tells the story. We know it's a slasher and now we get to sit back, enjoy the sick, twisted narrative, the gruesome kills, and the first person perspective that goes more haywire as the story continues. SGJ knows exactly what he's doing and I'm living for it. He's my favorite Stephen writing horror and I said it.