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The Exorcist's House by Nick Roberts

28 reviews

brandonwriteshorror's review

5.0

dark emotional reflective tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

This book was a wild ride from start to finish. Right from the prologue, you realize that you will need to buckle in for this one. If possession books trigger you, then you definitely need to skip this one.

Just a quick summary with no spoilers: a family buys a farm in rural West Virginia in hopes of flipping it to make a profit. They fall in love with the place at first, until things quickly go awry. They encounter forces they didn't believe were real, but when they come face-to-face with it, they realized they were in deep trouble.

Nick did an excellent job with the story development and background. I noticed that he left plenty of room for a prequel and maybe even a sequel (I would gladly buy both, or more!). The characters were all sound and relatable. He also did a great job making you feel as if you had time-traveled back to the early 90s. Each character had their own developments, their own private demons, and their own perspectives, which I very much appreciated as a reader and a writer.

I highly recommend this to all the horror fans out there, and if for some reason you haven't already bought this, DO IT NOW.

5 stars!!!

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kyra_joy's review against another edition

4.5

dark funny hopeful tense medium-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

This was an awesome book! Felt like watching an exorcism movie, and yet had some pretty unique elements to it that made it different to the typical story one might expect. Had some weird lines here and there, and near the end the story felt a little bit longer than needed but still overall was great!

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amaranth_wytch's review against another edition

4.0

dark tense fast-paced

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shae125's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

Loved every moment of this book I truly did!!!

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loandbeholdx's review against another edition

5.0

dark funny mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

I've always been a big fan of anything to do with demonic possession, and I'm always in the mood to read some paranormal horror. This did not disappoint. From the first chapter I was already hooked, and found myself flying through this one. The descriptions were disgustingly terrifying, and the plot hit every great possession trope while still remaining unique and unpredictable. I'd definitely recommend you pick this one up if you enjoyed books like The Exorcist, or Stolen Tongues.

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connorjdaley's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense 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

I knew as soon as this book opened with an exorcist putting bullets in a mason jar of holy water, it was going to be a good one.

I’ll start with the height of this book…this book spooked me legitimately! Which hasn’t happened since I read Home Before Dark by Riley Sager. Again, just a good mixture a things going on and the book got me. Was I looking over my shoulder in the dark? Yes, I was. Damn basement laundry rooms…

When the Hill family moves into their recently renovated country home, they expected some peaceful time off before flipping the house for a profit. What they got instead, was demonic presences, evil spirits, and possession. Oh and evil fog, humidity, and funky smells. Body horror and disfigurement.

The author does some cool references/Easter eggs. For the new family he kept saying the Hill’s house, which I took as a possible ‘The Haunting of Hill House’ nod. There’s also the obvious name for the exorcist, Merle Blatty, which is a nod to the author of ‘The Exorcist’ William Peter Blatty.

My favorite part of the novel was the way it was narrated. The production did some really cool things the narrators voice. They changed the octaves lower and higher for some of the demonic stuff and it was really good.

Personally a 5/5*.

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