That was like watching an 80’s possession-horror-movie, but better! When a book manages to give me crawling skin and can’t-sit-with-my-back-to-an-open-space-anymore, then I know it’s a good horror book! It was a captivating read, for sure, but for the people looking for info about the content I’m adding some CW in the next lines. Apart from expected toxic behaviour since it’s a book about a demon-possession and it’s set in the 80s: Physical and especially emotional child abuse, rape-mention and accusation (but no rape happens “on-screen”), a dog gets killed, some graphic stuff (don’t read while eating something, you’ll know when you’ve reached the part), suicidal behaviour a couple times I recommend this to people that like old-fashioned horror movies, books with playlists and the 80s (there’s a cool playlist on Spotify to listen to while reading, but it’s out of order so I made my own: Dust Bunny ’88 Mix (book appearance order) !)

After „Horrorstör“ this is the second book I‘ve read by Grady Hendrix. I really enjoyed „Horrorstör“, it was interesting, the characters worked and it built up a few tense scenes. Over all it felt like reading a mediocre horror film. But this novel lacked the thrill. The true horror in this book were the adults and society in general. And to me it seemed like the author tried to point that out in an interesting way but it didn‘t really work and felt forced. And I just got mad. Not what I want to be when reading a horror novel. In other reviews I read that the exorcism part is a pretty typical one. Good to know I don‘t enjoy books with exorcisms. And another thing: at the end of pretty much every chapter were those „deep, something just has changed and it gets underlined by this sentence“ kind of sentences like: „She didn‘t know it was the beginning of the end“ I don‘t know if those were style choices based on how horror novels were written in the 80‘s (the time the novel plays in) or if I just didn‘t like the style.