This book really connected with me and I believe I'll be reading everything Stephen Graham Jones has to offer. When I was a child, I would always make a point to talk nicely in front of my Barbies, lest they gang up on me and murder me in my sleep for shit-talking them or treating them poorly. It helps that I am also terrified of mannequins. The pareidolia in the second quote is all too relatable and makes everything happening even more disturbing and scary. That the world is conspiring all around you to make it happen, like, not just giving you permission, but herding you the direction you need to go, giving you secret nods and obvious hand signals, and getting everything out of the way so you have the clearest path possible." "Sometimes you just know what you're doing is the only thing to be doing. Imagination with a little helping of guilt." "It takes real imagination to connect the dots the right way.
There were some fantastic lines that synced up beautifully with what's going on in the plot and I was often awestruck by them: I felt like I could relate to Sawyer, which became a slippery slope in and of itself, almost like a sinkhole pulling me in with no hope of getting out.
This is one of those books that you can't say too much about without spoiling the plot. Even the games they played together were things I'd forgotten I'd done with my own childhood friends, and I commend Stephen Graham Jones for recalling these things with vivid clarity. The writing is very well done, with the perspectives of these teenagers being presented in a very believable and nostalgic way.
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