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How to Sell a Haunted House
by Grady Hendrix
funny
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
3 / 5 ⭐️‘s
“How To Sell A Haunted House” by Grady Hendrix
“You’ve become such a grouch,” she said. “Having your arm sawed off will do that.”
Where do I even start… First of all *SPOILERS* ahead so stop reading now if you don’t want me to ruin anything for you other than I thought the book was… meh. I really struggled on rating this one.
I was invested for the first 51% of this book (through chapter 20). After that it was…well, it got weird.
I don’t even know what Chapter 21 and 22 was. They were utterly useless and could have just been left out in my opinion. At the very least the transition to them and back to chapter 23 could have been much better.
I listened to the audiobook and for chapters 21 & 22 they used a new narrator. It was weird. Especially since the whole time the other narrator had been doing the narration for all parties in the book. I was listening to it at 2x narration speed and when the new narrator started I had to bump it up to 2.55x narration speed.
Chapter 23 resumed back to normal and then… along came Spider. The imaginary dog that came to life? Huh? WTF? I mean I could buy into the puppets and dolls coming alive, at least they were tangible things but SPIDER the imaginary dog…?!?
If it wasn’t for chapters 21 & 22 and Spider, I probably would have rated this a 4.
Everyone is entitled to their own opinions and reviews of books but I will definitely be cautious of fellow reviewers future book reviews that gave this one 5 stars and said it was “scary”… LOL ❤️ you.
Also, yes I have read and really liked other books by this author which is why I wanted to read this one.