How to Sell a Haunted House
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
"Wildly entertaining."-The New York Times
"Ingenious."-The Washington Post
New York Times bestselling author Grady Hendrix takes on the haunted house in a thrilling new novel that explores the way your past—and your family—can haunt you like nothing else.
When Louise finds out her parents have died, she dreads going home. She doesn’t want to leave her daughter with her ex and fly to Charleston. She doesn’t want to deal with her family home, stuffed to the rafters with the remnants of her father’s academic career and her mother’s lifelong obsession with puppets and dolls. She doesn’t want to learn how to live without the two people who knew and loved her best in the world.
Most of all, she doesn’t want to deal with her brother, Mark, who never left their hometown, gets fired from one job after another, and resents her success. Unfortunately, she’ll need his help to get the house ready for sale because it’ll take more than some new paint on the walls and clearing out a lifetime of memories to get this place on the market.
But some houses don’t want to be sold, and their home has other plans for both of them…
Like his novels The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires and The Final Girl Support Group, How to Sell a Haunted House is classic Hendrix: equal parts heartfelt and terrifying—a gripping new read from “the horror master” (USA Today).
"Wildly entertaining."-The New York Times
"Ingenious."-The Washington Post
New York Times bestselling author Grady Hendrix takes on the haunted house in a thrilling new novel that explores the way your past—and your family—can haunt you like nothing else.
When Louise finds out her parents have died, she dreads going home. She doesn’t want to leave her daughter with her ex and fly to Charleston. She doesn’t want to deal with her family home, stuffed to the rafters with the remnants of her father’s academic career and her mother’s lifelong obsession with puppets and dolls. She doesn’t want to learn how to live without the two people who knew and loved her best in the world.
Most of all, she doesn’t want to deal with her brother, Mark, who never left their hometown, gets fired from one job after another, and resents her success. Unfortunately, she’ll need his help to get the house ready for sale because it’ll take more than some new paint on the walls and clearing out a lifetime of memories to get this place on the market.
But some houses don’t want to be sold, and their home has other plans for both of them…
Like his novels The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires and The Final Girl Support Group, How to Sell a Haunted House is classic Hendrix: equal parts heartfelt and terrifying—a gripping new read from “the horror master” (USA Today).
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I forgot that this author wrote, "The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires." While this book was better... I still had a hard time with the following:
1) If a puppet pokes you in the eye with a needle, you go to the ER. You don't eat waffles with your brother at a diner instead. Just because he says that doctors poke eye balls all the time for medicinal purposes doesn't mean that you listen to him. A deranged evil puppet I'm sure didn't have the forethought to sterilize the needle before he poked you in the eye with a sewing needle... especially if he's trying to kill you. Insanity! LOL.
2) How many times are you going to go back to a house where a) a nativity scene dead squirrel tried to get in your pants, b) large dolls that look like you and your brother move around house and write notes, c) said puppet tried to kill you? Then you saw off your brothers arm... And you still go back? OMG. Seriously.
3) God stuff. But, that the least of this books issues.
OK why did I give the book 2 stars and not 1? Grady is a good writer. He sucked me in. I finished the book. The family dynamics between mother and kids, between the son and daughter- all was delightful.
1) If a puppet pokes you in the eye with a needle, you go to the ER. You don't eat waffles with your brother at a diner instead. Just because he says that doctors poke eye balls all the time for medicinal purposes doesn't mean that you listen to him. A deranged evil puppet I'm sure didn't have the forethought to sterilize the needle before he poked you in the eye with a sewing needle... especially if he's trying to kill you. Insanity! LOL.
2) How many times are you going to go back to a house where a) a nativity scene dead squirrel tried to get in your pants, b) large dolls that look like you and your brother move around house and write notes, c) said puppet tried to kill you? Then you saw off your brothers arm... And you still go back? OMG. Seriously.
3) God stuff. But, that the least of this books issues.
OK why did I give the book 2 stars and not 1? Grady is a good writer. He sucked me in. I finished the book. The family dynamics between mother and kids, between the son and daughter- all was delightful.
This one was a miss for me. I couldn’t bring myself to root for any of the characters. There was no depth to the story/legend/myth behind the possessed puppet. It dragged on for me after about 25% into the story. I wish I had skipped it and focused on something with more entertainment value + decent plot + likeable characters.
2 stars because I liked the audiobook narrators.
2 stars because I liked the audiobook narrators.
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