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A review by magellen
How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix
emotional
sad
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.0
Boring. So so slow and so boring. Like it feels as if he wanted to build a book off the way we all feel regarding the scary clown in Poltergeist mixed with generational trauma but it all went flat in the bake. Grady tells tells tells with zero show (honestly does no one ctrl+f for FEELS FEELING FELT with his work?) And even the highest points of emotion are BORING as wallpaper paste.
If you think you've guessed the situation in the early chapters, after a couple mentions of Pumpkin, welp. You're right. It is as straightforward as it seems and never builds tension so much as trips over attempts. It isn't funny either, despite many attempts. It feels like a half assed attempt frankly, cause as awful as SBCGKV w/e was, it was slightly more creative.
That said again with buring people out back shit? Again?even the *edgy* bits of *scary* are boring repeats.
I was gonna give it 3.5 originally but no. I thought I was half way at 33%, and almost done when there was another 4+ hours of audio book.
It is SLOW and without substance, try literally anything else in his body of work and you'll be at least slightly less disappointed.
If you think you've guessed the situation in the early chapters, after a couple mentions of Pumpkin, welp. You're right. It is as straightforward as it seems and never builds tension so much as trips over attempts. It isn't funny either, despite many attempts. It feels like a half assed attempt frankly, cause as awful as SBCGKV w/e was, it was slightly more creative.
That said
I was gonna give it 3.5 originally but no. I thought I was half way at 33%, and almost done when there was another 4+ hours of audio book.
It is SLOW and without substance, try literally anything else in his body of work and you'll be at least slightly less disappointed.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Car accident, Death of parent, Gaslighting, and Death