A review by ahopper7
My Best Friend's Exorcism by Grady Hendrix

dark funny medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

This book was overall a disappointment for me. I was really hoping for 80s horror like Strangers Things, but you can really tell this was written in current times, in a bad way.

Here is what I loved:
- the main theme of besties for life, especially the way it ended
- the 80s references (caveat for the unnecessary slang that is now problematic, see below for dislike)
- the exorcism was hilarious for me, top notch 80s horror comedy scene 

Here is what didn’t work for me:
- overall the characters weren’t really likeable, like any of them, I feel like I can tell that a middle aged man wrote these teen girls 
- the wholly unnecessary problematic language (e.g. DBNQ, the ‘r’ word, comparing someone that to an Ethiopian child, “slave” day, etc.); I get it, the story is set in the 80s, it was a different time, etc. but the book was still written in 2016 and those references do NOTHING to advance the story or add to it, so I found it off-putting and unnecessary
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