Reviews tagging 'Drug use'

How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix

9 reviews

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

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

therewillbelight's review against another edition

dark funny tense fast-paced

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

4.25

The creepy puppet book made me cry. How. 

I’m not a huge thriller book fan, but this is one of the best I’ve read. It was creepy but the smaller elements of humor and the depth in the exploration of grief and who we leave behind and the relationships we have in our families really got me. It actually made me cry towards the end

(“that’s how you know you’re real”)

and I’m a sucker for horror/thriller that uses the genre to reflect back on human experience. It’s dark and creepy and sinister but somehow without losing its grounding in what it means to be a human.

Such an interesting read, this wasn’t what I expected at all. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child death, Violence, Death of parent, and Alcohol

Minor: Animal death, Drug use, Mental illness, Self harm, Car accident, 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

gopackandstats's review against another edition

dark funny sad tense 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Violence, Grief, Medical trauma, Car accident, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child death, Vomit, Death of parent, Murder, and Gaslighting

Minor: Animal death, Drug use, and Alcohol

_readerfromtheblacklagoon_'s review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny reflective 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Violence, Blood, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

faduma's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Body shaming, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

theliteraryhooker's review against another edition

dark funny 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

This book was exactly what I needed to get me out of a slump. It moves fast, it's a little silly but also a lot creepy, and it's just fun from beginning to end! The characters are so well done, I found myself raging at Mark at the beginning but he did a total 180 by the end. There's a lot of exploration of grief and family here that manages to dig quite deep despite the absurdity of the plot. Hendrix also does gore so well, this is my second book by him and both have totally icked me out which isn't always easy to achieve in writing! Tons of fun, loved the family dynamics, definitely recommend!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Blood, Car accident, and Death of parent

Moderate: Child death

Minor: Drug use, Toxic relationship, and Vomit

juniper_reads_things's review against another edition

challenging dark funny medium-paced

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

2.5

Wow this book is a trip. I hope Netflix makes it into a B-rate horror movie, cause it’s real weird. 
Kakawewe, my dudes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Drug use, Gore, Grief, and Death of parent

Minor: Self harm