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A review by therivingtonreader
How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix
4.0
Louise and Mark are siblings that don't speak to each other, but when their parents end up in a deadly car crash, they're forced to work together to rid their childhood home of what their mother left behind.
Grady Hendrix does ridiculous and horror equally well. I don't think anything I could say about this book would do justice to just how absolutely absurd it is at times, and horrifying at others. It's laugh-out-loud funny on one page, and has you gasping in shock by the next.
I was so invested in this story from the beginning. The characters were realistic, and I found myself wanting to shout at Mark and Louise every time they had a fight. The only part that bummed me out was in the last 20 pages it did seem to drag a little. But overall, I think this is one of my favorites by Hendrix that I've read so far.
What I liked:
- divided into sections that were the stages of grief
- equally funny and scary
- characters were realistic
- lots of action that kept the story moving
- ending wrapped up nicely
What I didn't like:
- some of the very end got a little too over the top
- the last 20 pages or so started to drag
- Mark got mad at Louise a couple of times for seemingly no reason
Grady Hendrix does ridiculous and horror equally well. I don't think anything I could say about this book would do justice to just how absolutely absurd it is at times, and horrifying at others. It's laugh-out-loud funny on one page, and has you gasping in shock by the next.
I was so invested in this story from the beginning. The characters were realistic, and I found myself wanting to shout at Mark and Louise every time they had a fight. The only part that bummed me out was in the last 20 pages it did seem to drag a little. But overall, I think this is one of my favorites by Hendrix that I've read so far.
What I liked:
- divided into sections that were the stages of grief
- equally funny and scary
- characters were realistic
- lots of action that kept the story moving
- ending wrapped up nicely
What I didn't like:
- some of the very end got a little too over the top
- the last 20 pages or so started to drag
- Mark got mad at Louise a couple of times for seemingly no reason