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The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives in Your Home by Joseph Fink, Jeffrey Cranor

24 reviews

onemamareads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

Read my full review here: https://onemamassummer.weebly.com/book-reviews/the-faceless-old-woman-who-secretly-lives-in-your-home-a-welcome-to-night-vale-novel

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

hexe_19's review against another edition

adventurous dark sad medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Cancer, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Antisemitism, and Car accident

Minor: Child death and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

millionsofmax's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Grief, Stalking, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

sherlockstan98's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Murder

Moderate: Abandonment

aimnorth's review against another edition

adventurous dark medium-paced

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

5.0

I loved this book. The adventure has a lot of twists and turns you don't always see coming. There are funny and sad moments, and in the end you end up feeling a million different ways about the things that unfold.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Blood, and Murder

voilajean's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional reflective medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Violence, Stalking, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, Suicide, and Antisemitism

Minor: Slavery, Acephobia/Arophobia, and Colonisation

isaaclist's review against another edition

adventurous funny mysterious medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gore, Violence, and Stalking

stradivarii's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny inspiring mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

When the authors said it's a story about revenge, they really meant it. It seems so at first, but throughout the novel more and more things are revealed to lead back to the theme of revenge and redemption. I loved this book, I've read it multiple times, and would recommend it to anyone. It starts off with a comedic first chapter, but by the second chapter you'll know that it isn't as slow and playful as it at first seems, in a great way.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death and Violence

cherryrose's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious reflective sad 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

4.0

The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives In Your Home tells a story about a woman who's life is consumed by vengeance. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Car accident, and Death of parent

Minor: Animal death, Violence, and Death of parent

jupanuma's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

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

3.0

I'm giving this a flat 3 stars, and the only reason I'm doing that is that it doesn't really fit into the Night Vale series. If it was just a story on its own and not connected to Night Vale, that I would give it a solid 4.5 stars. Yes, it is a story about The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives In Your House, but more than 50% of the book is outside of Night Vale, and just going through her life. I want to say closer to 80 to 85% of the book is outside of Night Vale. And you wouldn't even need to know about Night Vale to pick up this book. You could have made it any town and it would have fit into the book just fine. 

What I did not like was

how nothing was really solved by the end of the book. I was really hoping that she would kill Edmond herself too.</spoler> I also did not like how she pretty much <spoilers> forces each male of Edmond's line to have a family just so she can kill them off once they have a son to start the process all over again.

Like I understand that's your revenge, but it felt more like a mother who is

despret for grandchildren and will do anything to make it happen</spoilers> than anything. And it just made me squeamish and kind of makes me not want to read the book ever again. 

What I did like was most of the side characters that she was friends with. I really like the characters that

can look like anyone

and to find out that she is in a

lesbian relationship

was just perfect. Breaking the law for love. Just great. But not just her, I really liked

Vlad.

I thought his character was built well and you really got a sense of who he was, and why he was doing what he was doing. 

So overall, if this book wasn't part of the Night Vale series, I would have liked it. I wouldn't have gone in with a hope of more randomness that you get from Night Vale and would have just read a book about this random Old Woman and her crazy and creepy life. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship

Moderate: Animal death, Death, Emotional abuse, Violence, Death of parent, and Murder

Minor: Torture, Trafficking, and Car accident