How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix on January 2, 2024
Genres: Fiction / Horror, Fiction / Thrillers / Psychological, Fiction / Thrillers / Suspense
Pages: 448
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If your looking for a horror with scary puppets look no further.
Something had happened right before her mom and dad had left their house for the last time. Something bad.
I’m not a huge fan of horror so I almost DNF’d this one, but I just had to continue on and know what happened. But this is a mix of creepy, family trauma, violence, a splash of humor, and crazy descriptive puppets!!! (What made me want to read this one???)
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…
This did have some great sibling character development. I was always on the edge of my seat and highly anxious during this book. If this was a movie, I would have had one eye closed the whole time!