l1ndz7's reviews
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This book is definitely one of the weirdest books I’ve read this year but in the best way possible. Kerolyn’s messages reminded me soooo much of my toxic manager at my last job it was scary. 

The whole concept of Gerald’s consciousness to Slack while trying to uploading a document oddly made a lot of sense 🤣😂  the one part I didn’t care for and didn’t even make sense was

when slack body-snatched Gerald and was him for a bit.

The romance that developed was unexpected but very cute and a nice way to end the book 

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. 

Cozy fantasy with a dash of dark in there? I 👏🏼 Am 👏🏼 Here 👏🏼 For 👏🏼 It 👏🏼 Emily is everything I want to read about in a scholar. Her entries feel like we are reading her faerie encyclopedia and the fact that the author could pull that off is outstanding. I was captivated from the first line where we are introduced to her lovely companion, Shadow, before anything else 🥰 

Wendell Brambleby, is the other brooding scholarly companion that was a wonderful member of this cozy crew. He is also Irish and missing his homeland. I really hope maybe we get to see him return in the next installment. 

 This is definitely a friends-to-lovers romance and I thought it was perfect. Mind you, the romance is a very minor subplot that’s sprinkled in here and there in entries. Just the way I like it. Something you can pick up on along the way and are delighted to see where it goes. I am pre-ordering the B&N special edition paperback for the next book right now!!! 

Very creepy and insidious possession novella. This gave me the chills. Watching your life fall apart and not being ask to do anything about it is incredibly scary. I loved the audiobook and highly recommend reading it that way to avoid the repetition that might annoy you reading the physical book. I loved the way Nama (the demon) interacted with our MC. I just wish it was a bit darker. 

This book is so special 🥹 It’s just as good as the movie (if not alittle better with that ending!). Can’t wait to read this and watch it with my future fam! What a great middle grade read

This was fun! Basically about  a poltergeist haunting an IKEA knock-off store! This was a better version of the novella Finna honestly (not by Grady but that book reminded me of this one) but I didn’t really care for the ending. I’m just so happy to have read Grady’s debut! 

The repetitiveness of this killed my enjoyment. It was wayyyy too long. 
 Working in the oil sands sounds like a miserable place. At least the author made enough money there to pay off her student loans in two years. I think I would have liked this better as a proper (non graphic novel) memoir 

I was interested when Addie got kidnapped and her experience in the skin trade but that was only one third of the book…the rest of it just wasn’t as interesting to me. I skimmed through most of this book. The ending wasn’t good either.. Z giving her

anal and then a ring???

ugh. Read this for a friend and though Zade is a character I’m very happy I met and won’t forget, this duology is completely forgettable. 

Cute fantasy story with some indigenous folklore. I didn’t really understand how the two POVs, one a spirit animal, and another, a girl named Nina connected until the very end. I wish the connection was made earlier in the book because it really started to drag starting from the middle to end. I had no idea this was the same author who wrote Elatsoe. Very excited to get to that after reading this! 

The writing is very hard for me to understand. I also don’t know if it’s just the way the e-book is formatted on hoopla but the chapters were odd and I just wasn’t vibing with it. I tried to read this for a prompt on one of the reading challenges I’m in but I just can’t. This is the second book I’ve tried for a prompt and I might give it one more go with another book (if I find one). Otherwise ✌🏼✌🏼✌🏼