For all it’s originality, dark humor, and captivating story, The Last Final Girl by Stephen Graham Jones does not flow well at all. The innovative, cinematic style the author employs in this book serves to be more distracting and jarring than I suspect he intended…but it’s different, and that makes it worthy in its own right.
It’s less experimental than House Of Leaves or other books I’ve had the pleasure of reading, but the experimental nature of the narrative doesn’t work as well as in some of those other novels. This is not to say it isn’t a good book, because it absolutely is…but it could have taken a few hours to read vs. a few days, if only it had the same natural flow and cadence I’ve seen with other writing from Jones.
Domus Necrophagous 
I loved ‘Mapping the Interior’ and ‘Mongrels,’ but this didn’t do it for me. I think it was too satiric, to the point where I couldn’t take any of it seriously at all.
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I felt the same way. It was a little too on-the-nose and meta, compared to his other work.
I wasn’t a huge fan of the writing style he applied to the narrative, but I’d gotten used to it by about the halfway point.
If you haven’t read The Only Good Indians yet, I highly recommend it. It’s arguably the best horror novel released in 2020.
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I’m definitely looking forward to that one! 🙂
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Yeah, I’ll look for it.
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Thanks 🙂
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