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How to Sell a Haunted House

Grady Hendrix

Start date: July 1, 2023

Finish date: July 31, 2023

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Mar 11, 2023 Andrea rated it liked it

I didn’t enjoy this as much as some of the author’s other work. The final 1/3 made it worth sticking with, but I thought it might be a DNF for a bit.

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Feb 04, 2023 Lori Wilen rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: 2023-read, 2023-book-hoarders-challenge

This is my second Grady Hendrix book and while I enjoyed it I wasn't blown away and it ended up being 4 stars for me. There times when I was reading that I really thought I was being taken back to the days of The Exorcist. There were some pretty, for me anyway, scary parts but that is what made this such a good read. I found myself getting wrapped in the plot and I ended up liking characters I started off not liking and disliking some that I had started out liking. I am sure this was a very comp ...more

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Feb 06, 2023 Natalie [genreneutralreader] rated it it was amazing

4.5 stars. I have read several Grady Hendrix and have enjoyed them all. I love how he delivers truly funny humor into what is generally a horror novel. In How To Sell A Haunted House, he added an element of true emotional depth and resonance that was by far the best of the ones of his I have read so far. I was describing to a friend what the book's title meant when I first started reading it, and I had the epiphany then. The "haunted house" was not just the literal haunted house, but the familia ...more

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Jul 26, 2023 Denise rated it really liked it

Shelves: 2023-reads, tower-teams-2023

This reminded me so much of Goosebumps for adults! Please note: I did say adults. It was legitimately scary and a little disturbing at times. I liked it.

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Oct 24, 2023 Nanci rated it liked it

Shelves: fiction, mystery, thriller, contemporary, suspense, horror, turf-wars-in-space-fall-2023

I read this as part of a GR challenge. I do not read horror. I do not like violence just to make a plot work, which is usually true of horror genre. I was surprised that I liked this book. If I liked horror, I think it would have gotten 4 stars. It was well-written and a real page turner. About midway through the book, I had no idea how the book would end. Everything was such a mess in the story and I couldn't imagine how there could be an ending that would work. Hendrix did it. (view spoiler) ...more

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