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A review by mboard
Horrorstör by Grady Hendrix
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.5
This was so fun!!
1000% recommend to anyone who has thought about what would happen if they had a sleepover at Ikea.
This was scarier than I thought it was gonna be (pleasant surprise). I assumed it would just be a ghost haunting Faux-kea but it was much more involved than that and I was TENSE for the second half of the book.
Definitely read this physical!! If you do audio you’ll miss a lot of the cool design. The book looks like an Ikea catalogue and the beginning of each chapter shows a different piece of furniture on offer. I laughed out loud at some many of these.
The only thing keeping me from a 5⭐️ is some of the characters being a bit lackluster. Every character was important to setting the stage for maximum creepiness but Trinity and Matt? Never cared what happened to them. Loved the FMC Amy she was delightful and Basil had a soft spot in my heart but the others were fine and made everything more spooky but as humans? Meh.
Such a unique experience and I recommend everyone go read it if you like to be spooked!
1000% recommend to anyone who has thought about what would happen if they had a sleepover at Ikea.
This was scarier than I thought it was gonna be (pleasant surprise). I assumed it would just be a ghost haunting Faux-kea but it was much more involved than that and I was TENSE for the second half of the book.
Definitely read this physical!! If you do audio you’ll miss a lot of the cool design. The book looks like an Ikea catalogue and the beginning of each chapter shows a different piece of furniture on offer. I laughed out loud at some many of these.
The only thing keeping me from a 5⭐️ is some of the characters being a bit lackluster. Every character was important to setting the stage for maximum creepiness but Trinity and Matt? Never cared what happened to them. Loved the FMC Amy she was delightful and Basil had a soft spot in my heart but the others were fine and made everything more spooky but as humans? Meh.
Such a unique experience and I recommend everyone go read it if you like to be spooked!
Content Warnings
Moderate: Body horror and Gore