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My Best Friend's Exorcism: A Novel
Soon to be a major motion picture. From the New York Times best-selling author of The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying
Vampires, this unholy hybrid of Beaches and The Exorcist blends teen angst and unspeakable horrors into a pulse-pounding supernatural thriller. The year is 1988. High school sophomores Abby and Gretchen have been best friends since fourth grade. But after an evening of skinny-dipping goes disastrously wrong, Gretchen begins to act...different. She's moody. She's irritable. And bizarre incidents keep happening whenever she's nearby. Abby's investigation leads her to some startling discoveries--and by the time their story reaches its terrifying conclusion, the fate of Abby and Gretchen will be determined by a single question: Is their friendship powerful enough to beat the devil?
Vampires, this unholy hybrid of Beaches and The Exorcist blends teen angst and unspeakable horrors into a pulse-pounding supernatural thriller. The year is 1988. High school sophomores Abby and Gretchen have been best friends since fourth grade. But after an evening of skinny-dipping goes disastrously wrong, Gretchen begins to act...different. She's moody. She's irritable. And bizarre incidents keep happening whenever she's nearby. Abby's investigation leads her to some startling discoveries--and by the time their story reaches its terrifying conclusion, the fate of Abby and Gretchen will be determined by a single question: Is their friendship powerful enough to beat the devil?
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This book reads like YA. Grady does a great job of taking the reader back to the 80’s from movie posters, to roller skates, to friends writing letters and sneaking out to talk about boys.
The horror aspect of this book was very lackluster to me. The beginning was a good opener to the exorcism that takes over Gretchen but after that, it’s just kind of friend vs friend and trying to take over her school. Abby threw everything away to save her which made me like Abby a lot as a strong female character but the Exorcist at the end was very poorly written in my opinion. He shows up in a white van with equipment to drug and tie up teenage girls and Abby’s thought is…. SURE WHY NOT, HE’LL WORK! Made me really uncomfortable and kind of upset at the ending of the book. She went to a Catholic school and you’re going to tell me there wasn’t anyone she could talk to about demons?
I do appreciate the epilogue of friendships never really dying off but fading away, was very sweet but not enough for me to give this more than 5/10 stars.
Congratulations Grady Hendrix, never before have I read a novel capture the likeness of female friendships so perfectly. I felt so much for Abby and Gretchen, and I simply couldn't put the novel down. I just had to finish it! And the horror is done so well, I was genuinely sickened and terrified (Margret's scene...that's all I'll say). A fantastic story in every sense! Should work great as a movie... Oh. Never mind.
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