Reviews

How To Sell A Haunted House, by Grady Hendrix

imstephtacular's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/injury detail, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Violence, Medical content, and Car accident

Moderate: Gore, Mental illness, Fire/Fire injury, Child death, Blood, Gaslighting, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Alcohol, Vomit, and Medical trauma

Minor: Sexual content, War, and Pregnancy

stuckinthestacks's review

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

lizdbooks's review

4.0

3 1/2 rounded up

rach_the_reader's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.75

The plot reads like a 10 year old had a go at writing a ‘horror’ novel. Awful. 

leen_machine89's review

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

This was more than I expected!! Grady Hendrix always delivers. If I could give this a 10 star I would!!

Haunted house meets Annabelle and Child’s Play!! Mix in some family drama and what a story. Half was through it took a sharp right turn into crazy town and I loved it!!

Highly recommend! And what a great book to finish 2022 on. Thanks Berkley for sending me my Uncorrected Proof.

alexathenaeum's review against another edition

emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

bakerhi's review

dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

Holy shit. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Grief, Gore, Blood, Death of parent, Injury/injury detail, Torture, Death, Child death, and Medical trauma

jmmoore2003's review

5.0

If you like horror, if you like a good Gothic tale, if you’ve ever read anything by Grady Hendrix and enjoyed it even a little bit – please read this book. Read it all. Read the dedication, the dear reader, every single word. Grady’s books sometimes get hard for me, because they’re unexpectedly dark; this one made me sob when I finished it, because I’ve had that dream and it hurts to wake up.

Thank you, NetGalley, for the ARC. I’m so glad I read this book.

casey_h's review

5.0

4.5/5 rounded up!

This was my first Grady Hendrix novel and it was as much of a wild ride as I thought it would be! Louise and her estranged brother Mark deal with the unexpected death of their parents, but they find a lot more than they expected when they begin cleaning out their parents house. Many twists(some I guessed, but I don't think it's particularly predictable) and many shocks(I can't tell you the amount of time I spent reading this book with this face

natverse's review

dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5