Date Of Review: October 28, 2023
Review Left On GoodReads: Yes https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5847379608
How To Sell A Haunted House
Author: Grady Hendrix
Narrator: Jay & Mikhalia Aaseng
Started: October 16, 2023
Finished: October 21, 2023
Genre: horror, paranormal
Length: 13 hours
Part Of A Series: no
Type Of Book: audio
Goodreads Link: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59414094-how-to-sell-a-haunted-house
Review:
It took a bit for me to read this once I realized puppets (dolls) where included. I hate dolls as much as clowns. If I had been reading this instead of listening to it, I would have put this in the DNF pile because of the dolls. I should probably get over the doll thing, but I won't.
The writing was good. It took a bit to get going in my opinion, but there was a lot of good build up to the action of the story. About the last 25% of the book is where the action was & it was awesome. This book also made me realize I am so happy I have no known siblings as I am sure I would have this sort of relationship with them.
If this book ever gets turned into a movie, I hope that there isn't too much added to the movie to make up for the slow start & world building in the book. And I hope it's got good CGI.
Goodreads Description:
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…