marymourning 's review for:

My Best Friend's Exorcism by Grady Hendrix

4.0

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This story focuses on two teenage girls that are best friends in the 80s. It starts out a little slow but definitely picked up around the middle and didn’t slow down. There was a lot of body horror centred around the idea of a demonic possession. But the main focus was the friendship and what lengths you would go to save your best friend. My only complaint is that the reason that she was possessed in the first place is not really clear? Maybe I missed it? I haven’t watched the movie yet but I will definitely watch it now. The part I loved the most was how the author captured what high school was like in the 80s. It felt like a Time Machine for me. I enjoyed the exorcism story but the attention to detail about the time period was what stood out in this book.