#I did start reading ‘my best friend’s exorcist’ which was def more compelling and intriguing than how to sell a haunted house but I haven’t | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

viridescent-vinca · 7 months ago

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absolutely HATE when a book has an interesting title and concept, enough that it compels me to read it, only for the story to not live up to my expectations and be just an okay book and then be disappointed that I wasted my time reading

#last fall I read ‘how to sell a haunted house’ and was very disappointed with the plot #this particularly sucks when a book is super new or not popular and I can’t find a plot summary #the writing is great but the plot was kinda silly and trying to be serious with a bonkers idea #vinca.txt #I did start reading ‘my best friend’s exorcist’ which was def more compelling and intriguing than how to sell a haunted house but I haven’t #haven’t finished that book yet #books #not to give out spoilers for how to sell a haunted house #but it only slightly follows the plot excerpt on the back of the book #like yeah two estranged siblings have to deal with the sudden death of their parents #but the bad guy of the story comes out of left field #but is also kinda predictable #like someone in the first few chapters makes a comment about the moms early life #and I was like oh I bet this happened and I was right #the other book where something like this happened was werewolf cop #which had a premise that was slightly different from I was looking for but it worked well #the main thing I didn’t like about that book was some of the stereotypes the author used #like they were too cliche #esp for a cop story set in NYC

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