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 The Jacket Open in new Window. [18+]
Sam needed a new winter coat.
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Rated: 18+ | (5.0)
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Review of The Jacket by spidey Author Icon

Absolutely delicious ending! It's a perfect crescendo to a piece that starts slowly, gradually increases in pace and is rattling along nicely toward the end. And then that final sentence puts a last blood-curdling lid on it. It's excellent.

I must admit that I wasn't convinced at first. The pace is really slow to begin with and then we're confronted with a shopping expedition (not my idea of fun). But this turns quite quickly into an intriguing try-on session with a leather jacket. The reader sits up and takes a lot more notice. Just how nasty can this jacket get? one asks. The answer is, a lot. The incident with the protestors is a bit contrived but I suppose it could happen. We had to find out more about the jacket and this was as good a way as any.

And so the final phone call. By that time, the reader feels pretty much the same about the girlfriend as does Sam. There he is, just about to get rid of the thing and GF phones. Well, that's just asking for it, isn't it? *Laugh*

It's a fun story that makes a lot out of not very promising material (The Amityville Jacket!) and ends by being well above the common run of horror story. Brilliantly done and so well written too.

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