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Title: The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying VampiresAuthor: Grady Hendrix
Published: 2020
Language: English
Pages: 404
Rating: 4/5
Summary:
Set in the suburbs of Charleston in the 90's, a group of women gather for their book club where they love discussing true crime ends up having to protect the community when a mysterious stranger moves into the neighbourhood and turns out to be a blood-sucking creature.
Review:
This was a highly entertaining book and I flew through it.
I really love the time period this is set in and the setting is a combination of two of my favorite things; the South and the suburbs. I really love the backdrop of this community and I feel like it suits the story really well. I really enjoyed getting to know the characters in here, especially the women of the book club, even if they're not equally well developed.
I thought this was really easy to read and easy to get into. Although I'm not generally a huge reader of horror, I did really like the horror scenes in here; they were gruesome, dark and detailed and really creeped me out. There's also a bit of dark humor scattered in here that I very much enjoyed.
I do think, like I mentioned, some of the characters are a little one dimensional and I think there's a bit in the middle of the book where it starts to drag out a little bit. There are a lot of themes in this book that are touched on and we do get some family intrigue with the characters, but the main focus of the story really is the plot with the vampire (which isn't a bad thing necessarily).
Overall though, I just had a great time reading this; it was the perfect amount of scary and creepy and just incredibly entertaining.
You can read more about it on Goodreads
