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The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives in Your Home by Jeffrey Cranor, Joseph Fink

22 reviews

mariakureads's review

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adventurous dark funny 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? It's complicated

4.0

This was an interesting listen.
I knew Mara Wilson was the voice of the faceless old woman on the podcast so I loved that I got right back into the character because of her narration.
I loved that this book gave me her story told through the span of lifetimes, hers and many others, in such a vivid detail that I'm glad it was done in a book be an episode on the podcast.

Craner and Fink really went and provided an origin story that I never could have expected for this particular character, everand I love that surprise!
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theresugar's review against another edition

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adventurous dark funny medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character

3.5

It was interesting to learn more about the Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives In Your Home, and to hear all of the little sneaky references to Welcome to Night Vale and see a bit of the Nightvale before Cecil and Carlos. However, I felt that the story sort of dragged in spots and by the end I was really ready for it to be over, I feel like it could have been wrapped up a bit sooner. All in all, quite intriguing and I learned some new and interesting lore for WTNV
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mylobrikis's review against another edition

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

5.0

A deeper dive into the origins and motivations of the faceless old woman from the nightvale universe.
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navyredrose's review

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adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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fox_at_the_circus's review against another edition

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

4.25

I enjoyed this book immensly! I always love a good heist and found family plot and this book really gives us great characters with great relationships. I loved the character development of the faceless old woman who secretly lives in your home and seeing how she became the person we know and love from WTNV. She has a really interesting character arc and seeing her revenge story unfold is very interesting and tragic. 
This book is full of mystery and plot twists and intrigue and it is so fun to theorise while reading. And sometimes I saw things coming, but never the whole twist, never all of it; great foreshadowing with great pay-off!
It also has some amazing prose in it, in the earlier flashbacks especially with the "what X smells like" paragraphs, those really hit hard for me
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toopunkrockforshul's review

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dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Absolutely loved this book! The first two novels where good and very night vale vibes but this one was just absolutely stellar, both in the plot and the execution. The prose was absolutely beautiful, and there were so many good motifs and foreshadowing and pay offs. Also Mara Wilson's narration is fantastic. Wonderful book. 

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littleredwinter's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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nat20charisma's review

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adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

The story follows a long, long life of revenge with lots of friendship, but also lots of backstabbing. 
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onemamareads's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious reflective sad tense 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

4.0

Read my full review here: https://onemamassummer.weebly.com/book-reviews/the-faceless-old-woman-who-secretly-lives-in-your-home-a-welcome-to-night-vale-novel
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hexe_19's review

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

4.0

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