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A review by l1ndz7
My Best Friend's Exorcism by Grady Hendrix
3.25
I guess I enjoyed this? Lmao. This turned realll silly. It’s really too bad the plot isn’t as good as this cover. I almost want to keep it just for the cover. It started off so incredibly slow… we don’t actually start to notice the possession signs until over a 100 pages in even though the event where it supposedly happened was at the start of the book. can we also talk about how lame the possession was? We didn’t even see anything!! I believe this book uses satire and I’m really not a fan of that. This isn’t your average possession story so if that’s what you’re looking for, don’t read this. The possession seemed very real during the second half until we get to the exorcism and meet the exorcist..where everything falls apart and becomes one big joke. I don’t understand the point of using demonic possession to prove how strong Gretchen and Abby’s friendship was. If that was the whole point, kudos to Grady because he did prove that.
I’m also wondering if reading two books about possession back to back affected my enjoyment of this. I had just finished Come Closer by Sara Gran before this and thought it was such a fab possession story. Then coming to this where everything felt like a joke in the last half left a bad taste in my mouth.
This is such a weird book!!! It has some really graphic horror scenes but I wouldn’t classify this entirely as horror.. there was a lot of humor and i just didn’t vibe with it. It made the whole story corny and not as dark as I wanted. The blurb on the cover says this book resembles Tina Fey’s version of The Exorcist and I couldn’t agree more. That’s my problem with it. Super disappointed in this. Grady definitely took an L with this one but redeemed himself with The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires. I read Horrorstör before this and though I didn’t like the ending of that one, it was a better book and that was actual horror. Grady is a pretty average author in my eyes after reading three of his books. I will still read his work but I’ll lower my expectations going forward.
I’m also wondering if reading two books about possession back to back affected my enjoyment of this. I had just finished Come Closer by Sara Gran before this and thought it was such a fab possession story. Then coming to this where everything felt like a joke in the last half left a bad taste in my mouth.
This is such a weird book!!! It has some really graphic horror scenes but I wouldn’t classify this entirely as horror.. there was a lot of humor and i just didn’t vibe with it. It made the whole story corny and not as dark as I wanted. The blurb on the cover says this book resembles Tina Fey’s version of The Exorcist and I couldn’t agree more. That’s my problem with it. Super disappointed in this. Grady definitely took an L with this one but redeemed himself with The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires. I read Horrorstör before this and though I didn’t like the ending of that one, it was a better book and that was actual horror. Grady is a pretty average author in my eyes after reading three of his books. I will still read his work but I’ll lower my expectations going forward.