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"My Best Friend's Exorcism," and "Horrorstor" contain conflicts beyond believe, yet New York Times Best-Selling author, Grady Hendrix weaves Satanic rituals and ghost hunting into a blissfully bizarre barrage of horror and laughter.
These are two of five Hendrix books I've read, gifted to me from my sister Linda.
"My Best Friend's Exorcism" details the friendship of Abby and Gretchen who were high school besties in the late 1980s. In 1988, while the two were still in high school, one of the two is possessed by the Devil, or is she? Image if the only way to save the life of your best friend is steal a baby so the infant can be sacrificed in a Satanic ritual. Hendrix knows how to create conflict in his stories, and this is just one of many in this book.
Hendrix tinges on the goriness of Stephen King, yet manages to keep his books at a PG-13 rating, at least in my mind.
Hendrix suggests that some women in the 1980s breed babies for the sole purpose of sacrificing them to Satan and said the Health Department writes the term 'Irregular Procedures' on their medical charts when documenting demonic possession.
Young best friends, barely old enough to legally drive and on the cusp of finishing high school to enter the realms of adulthood are both thrust into an insane reality, complete with murder and genuine friendship.
She slid out a broad gleaming butcher's knife and looked directly at her friend who was turned the other way in the dark living room...Hendrix has a writing flare that suits me, and I sincerely thank Linda for introducing me to this amazing writer.
Male and females have a slightly different clock ticking in our minds which omit an infinite array of actions and feelings, and "My Best Friend's Exorcism" gave me an enlightening understanding of the female mind. Three stars easy for this book.
Mark Izzy Schurr
Work manufactures lunatics who lose their minds in the numbing grind of repetitive labor, Grady Hendrix said in his book "Horrorstor."
Upon reading the above words, I automatically gave this book a solid four-star rating.
This novel is about a group of co-workers who sell high-end furniture and decide to become ghost hunters because of strange activities after hours in the workplace.
In a nutshell, this is the story of four co-workers, three women and one man who decide to make their own TV show about ghost hunters. Trinity names the show "Ghost Bomb," because the show is about ghost's and according to her, the show is the bomb.
Trinity sincerely Believe's in ghosts and her co-worker Matt agrees to be a part of the show in hopes of parting her thighs.
Bloody handprints are seen on the walls of the store by the ghost hunters, and when one of their own disappears, they begin to believe she is alive in the walls of the store, and the quest to save her begins.
The basic storyline seems lame and silly maybe, but Hendrix has great character development and this reader found himself pulling for the quote-unquote hero of the story and rooting against its villains.
Mark Izzy Schurr
