Talk:The Stalking Mimic/@comment-25021327-20150709130529

I thought this one was okay. The haunted or evil doll is a concept that has been explored quite a bit in writing and film over the years, but that doesn't mean that it can't still be effective. I felt like the setup here was pretty well done, if a little derivative of the standard doll-interacts-with-child-but-adults-see-nothing story, but it felt pretty natural.

It would be tough not to draw comparisons here between the Child's Play series, what with the talk of using voodoo to switch consciousness with a doll. Luckily, that's pretty much where the similarities ended. I guess that I personally would have liked a little more of a balance between the time spent on the setup and the payoff.

The ending seems a little abrupt to me, with Kayla suddenly becoming a full on demon creature who (we can imagine) kills her family. For the most part the story felt like it flowed naturally, it was only at the end that it seemed to jump a bit. Also, just one little nitpick here, It seems like the narrator's wife's name changes in this. It looks like she's initially referred to as Maria, and later as Nicole. But, I might have isread something

In any case, this one was a fairly enjoyable read. Nothing too amazingly groundbreaking, but not bad for a haunted doll story. There seems to have been some effort put into the setup which is nice, and the ending isn;t really bad, it just felt a little rushed to me. Not a bad read :)