Reviews with content warning for Body horror - Horrorstor

This was so fun!!

1000% recommend to anyone who has thought about what would happen if they had a sleepover at Ikea.

This was scarier than I thought it was gonna be (pleasant surprise). I assumed it would just be a ghost haunting Faux-kea but it was much more involved than that and I was TENSE for the second half of the book.

Definitely read this physical!! If you do audio you’ll miss a lot of the cool design. The book looks like an Ikea catalogue and the beginning of each chapter shows a different piece of furniture on offer. I laughed out loud at some many of these.

The only thing keeping me from a 5⭐️ is some of the characters being a bit lackluster. Every character was important to setting the stage for maximum creepiness but Trinity and Matt? Never cared what happened to them. Loved the FMC Amy she was delightful and Basil had a soft spot in my heart but the others were fine and made everything more spooky but as humans? Meh.

Such a unique experience and I recommend everyone go read it if you like to be spooked!

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bookedbymadeline's review against another edition

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dark funny mysterious fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
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

I loved the attention to detail and

It really looks like an IKEA catalogue!!

Took a bit to really get into because it was repetitive and info dumping the first chapter or two. But by about 40 pages I was sucked in. Horrorstör is a unique story and format. It was scary, creepy, but more like a haunted funhouse which is perfect for anyone (like me) who scare easily 👻

I would’ve liked to get to know the characters a bit more but overall an entertaining read which I really enjoyed! I’m looking forward to reading more from Hendrix 😍

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mightyjenn's review against another edition

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fast-paced

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

2.0

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kickitupanotch7's review against another edition

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dark emotional funny mysterious reflective tense 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? It's complicated

4.0

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toastrats's review against another edition

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dark funny hopeful mysterious sad 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? Yes

4.25

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kmiff's review against another edition

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dark mysterious 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

5.0

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courtneyfalling's review against another edition

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dark mysterious fast-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? Yes

2.5

This was an annoyingly forgettable book. The character development was bad, Grady Hendrix can’t write women, the body horror was pointless… the concept could’ve been cool and instead it sucked.

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butle2em's review against another edition

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dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

1.25

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