Night of the Mannequins by Stephen Graham Jones
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

Honestly, I was pretty down with this in the first half. Total B-Movie feature creature style. But then it had the twist that will become abundantly clear almost immediately and I was like, Hey, that's unusual in the usual way, but just how far can it be taken?

Yes, I know, it can be taken very, very far. And in this one? It is.

I WANT to like that fact. But almost immediately, my reaction settles in and it just says... "This is tedious".

But why? Probably because the MC simply doesn't have many redeeming features. His rationale aside. And even that is extremely iffy.

So while this IS pretty short, it's also pretty un-fun. Which is sad because I've liked just about everything else Mr. Jones has written.

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