I'm going to have to read another of this author's books since the writing in this is so chaotic and messy (in a bad way) that I don't know if it's just because we're in the main character's head, or if it's the author's writing style. The story is just so fragmented and jumpy, leaping around the place to different points constantly. Rambling on and on and on every page about something random. I get the unreliable narrator trope, but there's that and then there's just this jumbled mess.

Some people might see this as a spoiler, but I've seen a ton of DNFs and "I wouldn't have picked this up if I'd have known" about this, so I think it's important to say that this isn't a book about a killer mannequin, it's about a teen that (suddenly, randomly?) gets a psychotic breakdown and goes on a murder spree. There's not really much rhyme or reason as to why? It's just oops, he's a killer now.

The characters as a whole are really flat as well. There's a group of friends but you kinda just don't get to know any of them, and the main characters thoughts are so jumbled and messy that you don't even learn much about him either. I think the character you end up learning most about is the father and his traumatic background, which he has for... Some reason.

Plot is just a bit too wild, while yeah it was kinda fun in a b-movie kinda way, it was also just all over the place, had little reasons, and just seemed to be gratuitous for the sake of it - even for a slasher! There are some elements that are just never explained, and other parts where the explanation is even more insane than a kid suddenly killing all his mates. Why miracle-gro?????? I am so entirely confused by the whole miracle-gro thing even after the ending.