Reviews tagging 'Death'

How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix

220 reviews

dev921's review

dark funny mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Toxic relationship, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

iloponis's review

3.5

oh grady hendrix how i love your campy horror stories with profoundly emotional endings 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Gore, Grief, and Death of parent

omg_pear's review against another edition

dark emotional funny reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

This book was really good and I was supposed because I hated Final Girl Support Group. Puppets are super creepy and this book creeped me out. Lost one star because this book felt a little too long. There came a point where I was confused as to why there were so many pages left.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and Death of parent

leastrawberryfields's review

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Blood, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child death, Emotional abuse, and Gaslighting

robin_reads's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious slow-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

kermittuesday's review

dark funny tense fast-paced

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

3.0

It was well done but just not my thing. I rate books based on how much I personally liked them. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child death, Gun violence, Blood, Grief, Car accident, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol

Minor: Vomit

nakutski's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Grief, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

funeraldancer's review

dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.5

I did not expect this to get as dark as it did, but it was a thrilling read throughout and boy howdy that familial trauma

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Violence, Grief, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcoholism, Cursing, Mental illness, and Self harm

jenn_amanda's review

dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Cursing, Death, Violence, Blood, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Alcohol

chireadsandchill's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative mysterious sad 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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Deadnaming, Death, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail