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How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix

321 reviews

ctobs23's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Gore, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, Medical trauma, Car accident, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

rready's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

mairi99's review against another edition

dark funny tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Violence and Death of parent

Minor: Death and Fire/Fire injury

annieisawesome's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

Very good. Parts of it were predictable, but there were enough surprises that it was still interesting. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cursing, Death, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Animal cruelty, Body shaming, Child death, Death, Drug use, Torture, Car accident, Murder, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Abandonment, and Alcohol

readingwithmycats's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Gore, Panic attacks/disorders, Violence, Medical trauma, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

chezler24's review against another edition

dark funny tense fast-paced

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

4.5

Possessed puppets, family secrets, and motherhood! OH MY! 

Really enjoyed this Grady Hendrix novel. Going in I was not expecting the sheer amount of puppets involved but enjoyed the creepy yet familial feel they provided for the plot. Structuring the book around the stages of grief was a nice way of framing the family dealing with the death that opens the book along with the family secrets presented throughout. I almost wish the title reflected this aspect more than the real estate angle since selling the house seems secondary compared to other elements present. While I don't need to read another book about puppets anytime soon, reading about Mark's horrors during college with the Pupkin brigade was a totally unexpected, wild backstory and helped me understand this seemingly evil little puppet a bit better. Throughout the novel, I was constantly rooting for Louise and Poppy. I was also not expecting this book to deal with generational trauma to protect the next generation but hey that's what makes opening a book so interesting! Overall, Hendrix met my expectations for the book and I can't wait to add another of his books to my handselling rotation at the bookstore.   

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Child death, Death, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Car accident

mburnsides's review against another edition

dark emotional funny mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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: Body horror and Blood

Moderate: Violence, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Child death, Self harm, Car accident, Death of parent, and Fire/Fire injury

hopesux's review against another edition

dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

Wonderful book. Gripping and exciting. Made me cry in the end.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Mental illness, Violence, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

memecomey's review

dark slow-paced

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

1.5

Almost DNF but kept going (skipped a few paragraphs in the process because the description of the 'fighting' scenes were too hard for me to imagine) just so I cld tick this off. Felt a bit duped as I was hoping the story will truly be about a haunted house. But no, it was actually about

haunted puppets and it was too 'Chucky' for me

. Plot was slow and sometimes it felt illogical e.g.

Mark putting on the puppet, Mark and spider dynamics, Lulu-Spider love-hate relationship

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Gore, Toxic relationship, and Injury/Injury detail

n0vel_ideas's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gore, Violence, Blood, and Murder

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

Minor: Alcohol