Horrorstor: A Novel
From the New York Times best-selling author of The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires comes a hilarious and terrifying haunted house story in a thoroughly contemporary setting: a furniture superstore.
Something strange is happening at the Orsk furniture superstore in Cleveland, Ohio. Every morning, employees arrive to find broken Kjerring bookshelves, shattered Glans water goblets, and smashed Liripip wardrobes. Sales are down, security cameras reveal nothing, and store managers are panicking.
To unravel the mystery, three employees volunteer to work a nine-hour dusk-till-dawn shift. In the dead of the night, they’ll patrol the empty showroom floor, investigate strange sights and sounds, and encounter horrors that defy the imagination.
Something strange is happening at the Orsk furniture superstore in Cleveland, Ohio. Every morning, employees arrive to find broken Kjerring bookshelves, shattered Glans water goblets, and smashed Liripip wardrobes. Sales are down, security cameras reveal nothing, and store managers are panicking.
To unravel the mystery, three employees volunteer to work a nine-hour dusk-till-dawn shift. In the dead of the night, they’ll patrol the empty showroom floor, investigate strange sights and sounds, and encounter horrors that defy the imagination.
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This was a super fun book. Interesting and relevant to anybody who has worked in retail before. However the ending- though it was good- I need more! I feel like every book review I write, I'm always unsatisfied with the ending. But this one leaves it too open. Are Matt and Trinity ever found? All in all, it was a great book, but I wish we knew what happened after Amy and Basil go back in after hours!
This was a super fun book. Interesting and relevant to anybody who has worked in retail before. However the ending- though it was good- I need more! I feel like every book review I write, I'm always unsatisfied with the ending. But this one leaves it too open. Are Matt and Trinity ever found? All in all, it was a great book, but I wish we knew what happened after Amy and Basil go back in after hours!
This book completely redeemed Grady Hendrix as an author to me. I read his most recent book as my first read by him, The Final Group Support Group - which I found a bit disappointing for two reasons: I had heard so much hype about the author regarding his previous works and there was almost zero originality to the story, in my SUBJECTIVE opinion as a reader who is a huge fan of the slashers he wrote about, word for word from their respective movies.
Okay, enough about that - let's talk Horrorstor. This book was a page turner...I couldn't put it down once I started, which meant I read the whole thing in a day. The attention to detail for how this whole book looks, read and was written was just excellent. I loved the layout - it looked like a store catalog, each chapter featured different furniture...later other types of devices(spoilers!) It started off so funny in regards to that retail rat race and then turned into a completely different ride once things started getting dark. I went from laughing to putting a hand over my heart in suspense of what was about to happen next.
The story really played on how creepy a large store feels after closing when everyone has gone home and everything is quiet, with only security lights placed here and there. Absolutely loved it and can't wait to jump into another one of Hendrix's books!
Okay, enough about that - let's talk Horrorstor. This book was a page turner...I couldn't put it down once I started, which meant I read the whole thing in a day. The attention to detail for how this whole book looks, read and was written was just excellent. I loved the layout - it looked like a store catalog, each chapter featured different furniture...later other types of devices(spoilers!) It started off so funny in regards to that retail rat race and then turned into a completely different ride once things started getting dark. I went from laughing to putting a hand over my heart in suspense of what was about to happen next.
The story really played on how creepy a large store feels after closing when everyone has gone home and everything is quiet, with only security lights placed here and there. Absolutely loved it and can't wait to jump into another one of Hendrix's books!
I was expecting the catalogue idea to be utilized more. I do like that the chapter starters change the further along in the story.
I did enjoy it, just was expecting something different.
I did enjoy it, just was expecting something different.
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