Reviews tagging 'Child death'

How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix

334 reviews

sehenry20's review against another edition

dark emotional funny mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Violence, Death of parent, Child death, and Injury/Injury detail

queersubtext's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• 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: Gaslighting, Child death, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Abandonment and Car accident

Minor: Fire/Fire injury

urmotherrr's review against another edition

dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

3.75

The book was pretty good in the beginning but towards the end it got a little too paranormal for me.

Like when she was attacked by an imaginary dog. Or a giant monster made up of puppets

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Gore, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child death, Car accident, and Death of parent

Minor: Alcohol

kaylasbewks's review against another edition

slow-paced

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

2.0

stars ,, 2.0
cawpile ,, 4.0

super disappointed. the only enjoyable factor in this book was the authors writing style, which i already knew i liked because of my last read, another of his books (which was actually super good). even though i wasn't necessarily bored or angry, i wasn't interested in the plot at all - the horror aspect didn't even truly begin until about ,, 250 pages in? even though you spend so long with the characters & their backstories, they still felt underwhelming and i had trouble feeling bad/scared for them, which then ruined the atmosphere. overall, didn't hate it, but certainly didn't love or like it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Violence, and Gore

Moderate: Body horror and Mental illness

Minor: Self harm, Alcohol, and Child death

thegayestghost's review against another edition

dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Vomit, Death, Grief, Blood, Child abuse, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Child death, Violence, and Medical content

othersociologist's review against another edition

funny mysterious slow-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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror

Minor: Child death, Car accident, and Death of parent

abbymcmurray's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Child death

enc3336's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

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

4.0

Almost felt like the tone of the last 13 chapters were different than the beginning of the book. There were things I didn’t see coming that had me yelling at the book though. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Gore, Car accident, Violence, Death of parent, Grief, and Death

Moderate: Car accident, Blood, Body horror, Child death, Violence, Gore, Grief, Death, and Death of parent

actuallytoop's review against another edition

dark funny mysterious

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore

Moderate: Child death and Death of parent

cuppasunshine's review against another edition

dark funny mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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: Blood and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child death and Child abuse