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A review by vaguely_pink
Horrorstör by Grady Hendrix
dark
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? Yes
3.75
Damn, maybe the horror really was capitalism all along.
I found it a bit hard to get into in the beginning. Hendrix's character exposition for our main narrator Amy is giving "I read a book about poor people once," or maybe I'm just jaded. However, once you get into the spooky stuff, I found it incredibly difficult to put down. I love the way Horrorstör flips the haunted house andindigenous burial ground tropes on their heads into an anti-capitalist "good for her" story. Truly grotesque. We love to see it.
I found it a bit hard to get into in the beginning. Hendrix's character exposition for our main narrator Amy is giving "I read a book about poor people once," or maybe I'm just jaded. However, once you get into the spooky stuff, I found it incredibly difficult to put down. I love the way Horrorstör flips the haunted house and
Content Warnings
Graphic: Blood, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Torture, Gore, Violence, and Body horror
Moderate: Confinement and Classism
Minor: Grief, Animal death, Suicidal thoughts, Abandonment, Excrement, and Forced institutionalization
floods, drowning, working retail