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3.92 AVERAGE
3.92 AVERAGE
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
The main character is insufferable and the female characters feel inauthentic. Uhg.
dark
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A
I quite enjoyed this book. A lot of the scenes in the book made me cry out ‘Don’t go there’ / ‘You are hallucinating’ / ‘ Wake up!!!!!!’ So it was quite fun. There was good climax build up, teary moments, grief over losing loved ones, last moments twists etc etc. Overall a good fun read.
dark
emotional
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
The Exorcist’s House started off strong with the prologue featuring Merle Blatty, previous owner of the house, and you guessed it - an exorcist. Then we introduced the Hill family, Daniel, his pregnant wife, Nora, and their teenage daughter, Alice, who purchase the property to use as a flip investment to make some extra coin for their upcoming bundle of joy. Of course, they have no backstory on the house and the evil that remains.
I cannot tell you how badly I wanted to like this book. I actually thoroughly enjoyed it until the Hill family moved in. I loved Merle’s story with Luke & Buck, and even loved the construction crew that started the project before the family moved in. Unfortunately, I didn’t like a single member of the Hill family with huge lack of character development and truly just found them annoying through their dialogue and actions. Speaking of the dialogue… ouch. The dad jokes from Daniel were not it, things that Alice and Nora said while their supposedly experiencing the most horrifying moments of their life were not accurate for women (in my opinion), and a lot of it was really just so cheesy and so silly. The pacing of this book did not leave room for the reader to have a sense of dread leading up to when the actual horrors of this book took place. It felt like we went from la-de-da, normal life things, to immediately “oh now I’m in the basement and a fiery eyed demon is going to kill me”, and that really took me out of what was supposed to be the scare factor. I craved that ‘oh god something is about to happen’ adrenaline rush, but it never came after the first chapter or two.
My husband and I read this one together and had mirroring thoughts and opinions about this book. I needed more descriptors, more nods to the Appalachia setting and early 90’s timeframe, more character development, a more thought out plot to fill in a lot of holes, and better pacing. For us, this book felt like an unfinished thought and a skeleton of a story that could have been really good had the execution been more thorough. It unfortunately wasn’t for us, but it might be for you!
I cannot tell you how badly I wanted to like this book. I actually thoroughly enjoyed it until the Hill family moved in. I loved Merle’s story with Luke & Buck, and even loved the construction crew that started the project before the family moved in. Unfortunately, I didn’t like a single member of the Hill family with huge lack of character development and truly just found them annoying through their dialogue and actions. Speaking of the dialogue… ouch. The dad jokes from Daniel were not it, things that Alice and Nora said while their supposedly experiencing the most horrifying moments of their life were not accurate for women (in my opinion), and a lot of it was really just so cheesy and so silly. The pacing of this book did not leave room for the reader to have a sense of dread leading up to when the actual horrors of this book took place. It felt like we went from la-de-da, normal life things, to immediately “oh now I’m in the basement and a fiery eyed demon is going to kill me”, and that really took me out of what was supposed to be the scare factor. I craved that ‘oh god something is about to happen’ adrenaline rush, but it never came after the first chapter or two.
My husband and I read this one together and had mirroring thoughts and opinions about this book. I needed more descriptors, more nods to the Appalachia setting and early 90’s timeframe, more character development, a more thought out plot to fill in a lot of holes, and better pacing. For us, this book felt like an unfinished thought and a skeleton of a story that could have been really good had the execution been more thorough. It unfortunately wasn’t for us, but it might be for you!
well written enough but absolutely paint-by-numbers exorcism fare. naming one of the characters after William Peter Blatty and another after Father Merrin only serves to highlight its derivative plot
I wedged this book into my already-bulging Spooky Season reading list based on all the positive reviews I saw my Goodreads friends had posted...and I was not disappointed! The Exorcist's House is just a pure unadulterated scary-fun good time. Writing that reads like Stephen King-meets-Grady Hendrix and a story that could weirdly sit as comfortably in either the Evil Dead or Supernatural fictional universes as it does in its own little corner of the horror world. I would give this book 6 stars if could.