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My Best Friend's Exorcism

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My Best Friend's Exorcism

By: Grady Hendrix
Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
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A heartwarming story of friendship and demonic possession.

The year is 1988. High school sophomores Abby and Gretchen have been best friends since the 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?

Like an unholy hybrid of Beaches and The Exorcist, My Best Friend's Exorcism blends teen angst, adolescent drama, unspeakable horrors, and a mix of '80s pop songs into a pulse-pounding supernatural thriller.

©2016 Grady Hendrix (P)2016 Blackstone Audio, Inc. Coming of Age Exorcism Fantasy Fiction Genre Fiction Horror Supernatural Thriller & Suspense Scary Paranormal Exciting Heartfelt Young Adult

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The exorcism story came only close to the end. There was no need to go through the childhood elongated story, it only made it boring. The performance got exaggerated sometimes.

Too long story

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If you love 80s nostalgia, you’ll love this.
Easy listening and nothing too scary until the actual exorcism.
The same as most exorcism stories but with high school and 80s vibes.

The exorcist set in the 80s

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The Goonies meets The Breakfast Club meets The Exorcist and Exorcism of Emily Rose.
Loved it!

One sitting listen, a brilliant genre mish mash 5*

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story is a bit of a slow burner, you only hear about the exorcism in like the last hour
the narrator was a bit cringe in parts and ruined it a bit for me
if i was a teen i probably would of liked this more

uhhh

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Draws you in and lets you get to know the characters, then turns surprisingly dark.

Great story and a great reading

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Don't go into this with The Exorcist in your mind. Comparing the two wouldn't be fair because demonic possession is where the similarities begin and end. The tale of friendship and found family and love is one that bolsters the horror. Characters are richly drawn and grow on you easily. I laughed out loud, gasped in terror, and winced in agony. So much fun.

Fun Ride

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If I were to tell you that this book made me laugh and made me cry, providing a fun ride with emotional gravity and a really fleshed-out friendship, you might wonder why I'm not rating it top marks. Here's my problem: It wasn't scary or frightening at all. I'm more than happy for horror novels to be light on scares and focus more on dark humour and/or emotional weight, but when a horror novel doesn't even have one moment that gets under your skin, it's impossible to call it great. That being said, I breezed through the story quickly and loved the way things were tied up at the end. The audiobook narration was also a pitch-perfect performance.

A really fun, worthwhile story about friendship

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If you like dark humour, creepy set ups and lots of retro kitsch then this is the book for you! The only thing letting it down is the very poor narrator. I think it needed a much smarter, savvier and subtle reader.

Fun story, terrible narrator

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absolutely loved this book and the reading it had me gripped from the start and reminiscing about childhood and reminded me of heather's but more romantic

fantastic old style horror and coming of age

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This will greatly appeal to 80's nostalgia freaks but will have less to offer hardcore horror fans. The story is very well told by Emily Woo Zeller.

Superb narration for a so so story

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