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My Best Friend’s Exorcism-by Grady Hendrix — An Audiobook Review.
The horrors of high school take a macabre turn, and it’s an 80s thrill ride all the way through.
This book is my third read in Paul Combs’s “Thanks for the Nightmares” option from his Seven Summer Reading Challenges, and as a bibliophile and former bookstore owner, Paul knows his stuff. I’ve enjoyed his recommendations so much that I’ve already finished a fourth selection and may squeeze in a fifth. Still, as a break from the skin-crawling chills, my current read is the autobiography of hockey legend Brian Burke-”Burke’s Law.”
With each book review, I try my best not to give away any spoilers, but for this one, the author, Grady Hendrix, has saved me the trouble with the title. The plot revolves around a group of high school girls, a friendly foursome somewhere between Mean Girls and Heathers. Abby Rivers and Gretchen Lang are besties of the quad squad, and as the title says, one of them (Gretchen) becomes possessed by a demon.
The setting is South Carolina in 1988, and Hendrix’s chapter titles are either famous 80s Pop-Rock hits or song lyrics from the best decade in music history. I haven’t researched Hendrix, but I’m assuming he’s an ’80s…
