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stephsbooktalk 's review for:
How to Sell a Haunted House
by Grady Hendrix
Thank you so much to PRH Audio for a gifted copy of this title!
This will be published on January 17th.
I was super excited to get an advance copy of the newest book from Grady! I do not have too many repeated thriller/horror authors but I really enjoyed 2021's The Final Girl Support Group. I still need to go through his back list as I have heard good things!
This story was different compared to other thrillers I have read. I would even go to say that maybe the first 50% is more of a brother & sister relationship with the fall out of their parents death and remembering bad things that had once happened in the house. Laurie and Mark have to work together to sell their parent's house but things aren't what they seemed. The house is *potentially* haunted as they arrive at their home to some weird shananigians. Their mother collected puppets but one of them stood out the most - Punkin. Pupkin played a roll in some life changing moments in both Laurie and Mark's life.
I am not sure if my experience with this book would have been different had I read it vs listening to it. This was no fault of the narrator - she was great but the context was sometimes was hard to take serious. And I find myself thinking it was comical (was I supposed to giggle?)? It could be just my own horrors don't include small dolls or puppets (could be because I never saw movies with dolls or puppets - unless you count Saw) so my imagination of it was lacking. But I am sure if I were in their position I would be scared out of my mind.
I thought the relationship between Mark and Laurie was very believable. You could feel the tension and the complex feelings each had towards one another. No matter what happened and despite how they felt about one another, they were there for their sibling. I did like that the narration switched from Laurie's point of view to Mark's to hear his story and relationship with puppets (which was WILD).
I also want to mention the title of this book is fantastic and the cover is even better.
I feel both of these are important with getting a reader's attention.
I really did enjoy this and was intrigued to keep going to see how it all played out!
I would recommend this if you love dysfunctional families and possessed dolls/puppets especially ones that talk.
This will be published on January 17th.
I was super excited to get an advance copy of the newest book from Grady! I do not have too many repeated thriller/horror authors but I really enjoyed 2021's The Final Girl Support Group. I still need to go through his back list as I have heard good things!
This story was different compared to other thrillers I have read. I would even go to say that maybe the first 50% is more of a brother & sister relationship with the fall out of their parents death and remembering bad things that had once happened in the house. Laurie and Mark have to work together to sell their parent's house but things aren't what they seemed. The house is *potentially* haunted as they arrive at their home to some weird shananigians. Their mother collected puppets but one of them stood out the most - Punkin. Pupkin played a roll in some life changing moments in both Laurie and Mark's life.
I am not sure if my experience with this book would have been different had I read it vs listening to it. This was no fault of the narrator - she was great but the context was sometimes was hard to take serious. And I find myself thinking it was comical (was I supposed to giggle?)? It could be just my own horrors don't include small dolls or puppets (could be because I never saw movies with dolls or puppets - unless you count Saw) so my imagination of it was lacking. But I am sure if I were in their position I would be scared out of my mind.
I thought the relationship between Mark and Laurie was very believable. You could feel the tension and the complex feelings each had towards one another. No matter what happened and despite how they felt about one another, they were there for their sibling. I did like that the narration switched from Laurie's point of view to Mark's to hear his story and relationship with puppets (which was WILD).
I also want to mention the title of this book is fantastic and the cover is even better.
I feel both of these are important with getting a reader's attention.
I really did enjoy this and was intrigued to keep going to see how it all played out!
I would recommend this if you love dysfunctional families and possessed dolls/puppets especially ones that talk.