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How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix

3.5

When Louise finds out her parents have died, she dreads going home. She doesn't want to leave her daughter with her ex and fly to Charleston. She doesn't want to deal with her family home, stuffed to the rafters with her father's academic papers and her mother's puppets and dolls. Most of all, she doesn't want to deal with her brother, Mark, who never left their hometown, gets fired from one job after another, and resents her success. Unfortunately, she'll need his help to get the house ready for sale because it'll take more than some new paint on the walls to get this place on the market. But some houses don't want to be sold, and their home has other plans for both of them... 

 Liked:
-creepy puppets
-some over-the-top violent fights against the bad guys
-unreliable narrators
-PERFECT creepy puppet voice, critical for making "KAKAWEWE!" scary!
-The "reappearance of bad guy scene" actually gave me goosebumps

Didn't like:
-pronunciation of "Louise" like "Luis"
-grouping chapters by stages of grief — good idea but not executed super well within the chapters
-took way too long to get scary
-I usually prefer deep dives into stories, but I felt this could have been maybe two hours shorter