Archetypes & Anecdotes

“Books, Briefly” is featuring a spooky book today…

Title: How to Sell a Haunted House

Author: Grady Hendrix

READ IF YOU LIKE: scary stories about hauntings, Halloween-vibes, unrealistic characters mixed with realistic ones, reading about sibling relationships

MOOD: creepy, morbidly goofy

Likes	Dislikes
How the author inserted comedic relief to offset things that were creepy or uncomfortable (like the death of family members)	The conflict took too long to resolve; the resolution wrapped up too quickly in comparison (I want to know more about how the situation affected her relationship with her brother in the future!)
The audiobook for the overall storytelling	The high-pitched, squeaky voice for the doll on the audiobook irked me after awhile
	The violent altercations between the doll and the main characters, as well as the back story, became almost too weird and unrealistic in a cringey way

FINAL THOUGHTS:

If you are a fan of hauntings and creepy dolls, How to Sell a Haunted House is for you. Grady Hendrix is a strong storyteller that hooks his readers into spooky situations. Although I was not a fan of the weird directions the novel’s plot went (as well as the one-too-many twists), I can see the right reader enjoying this for the creative story this is.