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El exorcismo de mi mejor amiga by Grady Hendrix

415 reviews

lancemama's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful tense fast-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body shaming, Blood, Self harm, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic friendship, Vomit, Addiction, Grief, Body horror, Bullying, Confinement, Fatphobia, Gaslighting, Gore, and Kidnapping

laurenstravels's review against another edition

dark slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Vomit

wolslaur's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Vomit, Gore, Torture, Emotional abuse, and Excrement

Minor: Death of parent

cloud_of_eden's review against another edition

dark sad tense slow-paced

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

3.5

meh. it was ok. Abby as a character didn’t have practically any characterization and the plot happened all in the last 10% of the book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Animal death, Body horror, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Drug use, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Child abuse, Alcohol, and Bullying

Minor: Vomit, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Adult/minor relationship, and Self harm

romy_f's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful medium-paced

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

4.5

This is my second  Grady Hendrix book. while the book is labeled as horror, it's not really. there are some scary elements, maybe because of our expectations and previous experiences with Hollywood movies, but the story is more suspense than scary. It's not even a story of exorcism as much as it's a story about friendship and the glorious 80s.  

I am not a big fan of exorcisms but I have seen a few movies here and there. 
The exorcism in the novel might as well be the best exorcism scene ever.  Never thought I'd tear up during an exorcism but here I was with tears in my eyes and it got more and more towards the end of the book. 

 I Can't decide if this scene was better or the one from The Chilling Adventure of Sabrina Spellman. Oh and the one from Practical Magic! 

bear in mind this is a book about exorcism so some gore should be expected 

The audiobook is amazing !! The narrator did a good job being serious when the role required it and being funny and lighthearted when the scene called for it. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Self harm, Eating disorder, Sexual assault, Rape, Child death, Animal death, Suicide attempt, Vomit, and Drug use

writewithapendragon's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

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

4.0

I love Grady Hendrix’s writing and stories but I wish he could complete a book without including sexual assault. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Toxic friendship, Gaslighting, Medical content, Toxic relationship, Animal death, Bullying, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Body horror, Cursing, and Eating disorder

Moderate: Blood, Sexual content, Animal death, Car accident, Drug use, Sexual assault, Suicide attempt, Torture, Child abuse, Alcohol, and Bullying

Minor: Alcohol, Sexual content, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Adult/minor relationship, Gun violence, Toxic friendship, Violence, Child death, Emotional abuse, Mass/school shootings, Rape, Death, Body horror, and Forced institutionalization

Genre-typical content for a horror book, hits a lot of 80s slasher tropes and some gore.

teaselkie's review against another edition

dark emotional funny tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, and Child abuse

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Child abuse, Classism, Gaslighting, and Eating disorder

Minor: Alcohol and Drug use

ralibbey13's review against another edition

dark emotional funny 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Sexual assault, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Gaslighting, Vomit, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Child death, Death, Eating disorder, Bullying, Fatphobia, Gore, Homophobia, Rape, and Self harm

thatsssorachael's review against another edition

dark emotional 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Vomit, and Gore

Moderate: Drug abuse, Rape, and Child abuse

Minor: Alcohol

reading_binosaur's review against another edition

4.0

Prime movie was almost exactly like the book, and JUST as good!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Vomit and Animal death