Reviews tagging 'Gore'

How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix

281 reviews

_lish_'s review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious medium-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Gun violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Injury/Injury detail

meganmoisant's review against another edition

dark tense

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Mental illness, Violence, Blood, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Vomit, Medical content, Car accident, Death of parent, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Alcoholism, Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use, Forced institutionalization, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Alcohol, and War

shubka's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark 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

3.75

This book definitely makes me never want to be around puppets or dolls ever again! Full of twists & turns I never could have guessed. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Emotional abuse, Gore, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal death, Bullying, Torture, Grief, Gaslighting, and Toxic friendship

clrouse's review against another edition

dark funny mysterious tense fast-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: Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Bullying, Child death, Medical content, and Car accident

Minor: Cursing, Drug use, Mental illness, Fire/Fire injury, and Alcohol

amy14's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Loveable characters? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Cursing, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Self harm, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Car accident, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

riawd's review against another edition

dark emotional funny 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore

Minor: Car accident

iloponis's review against another edition

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

kaneebli's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense slow-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

3.0

weird

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Ableism, Mental illness, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Fire/Fire injury and Abandonment

drewanslee's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body horror, and Gore

liahopkins's review against another edition

dark emotional tense medium-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

5.0

Grady Hendrix you are a fucking genius. It's my third book of his that I have read, and it was so good, just a smidge behind my best friends excorcism. At first, I was a bit put off by the puppets, because they kept creating this image of a low budget horror movie in my head, with mediocre acting, shaky cameras and excessively dramatic music. But that's just the charm of Grady Hendrix's writing: it's bizarre and wild and full of blood and gore, and you're jaw keeps dropping because you can't believe the crazy shit that's happening, and then he hits you with the most heartbreaking, raw family conflicts and feelings, that feel so honest and human. The way the characters process their grief in this book is so well-done and real, and the last chapter just pulls at your heartstrings in the most perfect way. Finishing this book definitely was my last straw on my route to becoming a full-blown Grady Hendrix fangirl.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Gore, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal death, Self harm, and Car accident

Minor: Vomit and Gaslighting