3.5
My Best Friend's Exorcism
ByPublisher Description
Soon to be a major motion picture.
This ENHANCED DIGITAL EDITION features TONS of TOTALLY AWESOME ’80s bonus materials—including Satanic Panic educational pamphlets, a do-it-yourself exorcism cheat sheet, a Spotify playlist of awesome ’80s tunes, animated cover artwork, and much more!
From the New York Times best-selling author of The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires, this unholy hybrid of Beaches and The Exorcist blends teen angst and unspeakable horrors into a pulse-pounding supernatural thriller.
The year is 1988. High school sophomores Abby and Gretchen have been best friends since fourth grade. But after an evening of skinny-dipping goes disastrously wrong, Gretchen begins to act…different. She’s moody. She’s irritable. And bizarre incidents keep happening whenever she’s nearby. Abby’s investigation leads her to some startling discoveries—and by the time their story reaches its terrifying conclusion, the fate of Abby and Gretchen will be determined by a single question: Is their friendship powerful enough to beat the devil?
This ENHANCED DIGITAL EDITION features TONS of TOTALLY AWESOME ’80s bonus materials—including Satanic Panic educational pamphlets, a do-it-yourself exorcism cheat sheet, a Spotify playlist of awesome ’80s tunes, animated cover artwork, and much more!
From the New York Times best-selling author of The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires, this unholy hybrid of Beaches and The Exorcist blends teen angst and unspeakable horrors into a pulse-pounding supernatural thriller.
The year is 1988. High school sophomores Abby and Gretchen have been best friends since fourth grade. But after an evening of skinny-dipping goes disastrously wrong, Gretchen begins to act…different. She’s moody. She’s irritable. And bizarre incidents keep happening whenever she’s nearby. Abby’s investigation leads her to some startling discoveries—and by the time their story reaches its terrifying conclusion, the fate of Abby and Gretchen will be determined by a single question: Is their friendship powerful enough to beat the devil?
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3.5
“Truly beautiful in the most human, mundane, heartfelt way. Must have taken me twice as long as normal to finish the last chapter because I cried through basically the whole thing and couldn't see.”
“What a wild ride!! Not as mind-blowing as I hoped. There were a few plot threads that never came up again. The animal horror was more than I wanted. But this is a book you can really pick apart and think about the layers of some of the themes (religious intolerance, homophobia, toxic friendships) so in that way it was really compelling. The pacing was excellent. The movie seemed to be a huge let down (bummer). A really great “summer horror” read. Really captured the 80s vibes so well.”
BelievableLack of diversityMorally ambiguousAddictiveDisjointedFast-pacedGripping/excitingSatisfying conclusionSteady pacingSuspensefulBland/genericNostalgicEasy to readWittyAnimal abuseChild abuseDeathEating disordersFat phobiaGriefHomophobiaMurderReligious intoleranceSelf-harmSexual assaultViolence
“This book was slow to start at first and I didn’t immediately mesh with the characters. About half way through it really picks up and some of the scenes were incredibly gross. If you’re sensitive to animal abuse maybe don’t read this book. The ending was really well done, this was such a good story about true friendship!”
About Grady Hendrix
Grady Hendrix is an award-winning novelist and screenwriter living in New York City. He is the author of Horrorstör, My Best Friend’s Exorcism, We Sold Our Souls, and the New York Times bestselling The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires, which is being adapted into a series by Amazon Studios. Grady also authored the Bram Stoker Award-winning nonfiction book, Paperbacks from Hell, a history of the horror paperback boom of the ’70s and ’80s.
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