The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires
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Grady Hendrix
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Fried Green Tomatoes and Steel Magnolias meet Dracula in this Southern-flavored supernatural thriller set in the '90s about a women's book club that must protect its suburban community from a mysterious and handsome stranger who turns out to be a real monster.
Patricia Campbell's life has never felt smaller. Her ambitious husband is too busy to give her a goodbye kiss in the morning, her kids have their own lives, her senile mother-in-law needs constant care, and she's always a step behind on thank-you notes and her endless list of chores. The one thing she has to look forward to is her book club, a close-knit group of Charleston women united by their love of true crime and paperback fiction. At these meetings they're as likely to talk about the Manson family as they are marriage, motherhood, and neighborhood gossip.
This predictable pattern is upended when Patricia meets James Harris, a handsome stranger who moves into the neighborhood to take care of his elderly aunt and ends up joining the book club. James is sensitive and well-read, and he makes Patricia feel things she hasn't felt in 20 years. But there's something off about him. He doesn't have a bank account, he doesn't like going out during the day, and Patricia's mother-in-law insists that she knew him when she was a girl, an impossibility.
When local children go missing, Patricia and the book club members start to suspect James is more of a Bundy than a Beatnik, but no one outside of the book club believes them. Have they read too many true crime books, or have they invited a real monster into their homes?
©2020 Grady Hendrix (P)2020 Blackstone Publishing
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Interessantes Setting für eine Vampirgeschichte
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ausgezeichnete Sprecherin
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Smart, bloody fun
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Lovely book!
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Speaking about tone, I feel that the author captured the setting well. While the story unfolds in the 1990s, the way everyone behaves is reminiscent of the 1950s, and I have it on good authority (as in, people who had to grow up like that) that that's a pretty accurate scenario in a small town/suburb in the South. And that behavior is aggravating, but it is meant to be. It is the general way of life of these white Southerners that makes the villain's scheme so successful.
I was shocked to read a review that accuses the author of being both racist and misogynist, as if his depiction of the problem meant that he was a problem. The setting is plenty misogynist and racist, and, again, that is the point. The villain thrives, because:
1) Women are not taken seriously.
And men will always come together to defend another man, even a stranger, over women they know intimately. You would have to live under a rock to be unaware of how much women are not believed by men, be they law enforcement, medical professionals, or Joe Shmoe next door, who cannot tell his butt from a hole in the ground. Men will not believe that a man they've had a beer with could possibly do that, whether "that" is beating his wife (and if he did, she probably deserved it), being a drug dealer, or sexually assaulting a woman (again, she probably asked for it).
The men in this story are the absolute worst, and before you hashtag notallmen me, it should be clear from criminal statistics alone, that maybe not all, but really plenty. Writing these men as the more or less casual misogynists they are does not make the author one. Quite the contrary, I might argue.
I would also like to point to several reviews where women who grew up like this comment how seen they feel. Maybe take their word for it? Unless you... have trouble believing women?
2) What happens to black people doesn't count.
Yes, the black characters are marginalized in this story, and again, that's the bloody point. Law enforcement is absolutely notorious for not caring about communities of color. Black children that go missing don't make the news. White people in the US have polled many times as severely deficient in empathy when it comes to non-white people. Ursula Green, whom the white women know because she "the help", lets them have it in the end, when they come back to her because the monster has now turned to their own children. They didn't care when it was black children, because black people are expendable to white society in the south of the United States.
I feel like a broken record, but yet again, pointing out the problem doesn't make the author the problem. If anything, the author drives "the moral of the story" home in an extremely obvious, even heavy-handed way.
This was a heavy read, and I felt real despair at times. I had to see it through to the end, though, and once a plan comes together, it is actually glorious. In a very gory way, of course. I enjoyed this book, but maybe not 100% of the time. But horror is not my core genre, to be fair.
This Made My Skin Crawl. As It Should.
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Genius Voice Actor
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This book sounds like it might be a campy pulp horror, but in actuality it's more of a social drama with one or two gory scenes.
All in all just disappointing from a horror standpoint.
Title somewhat misleading
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Superficial, a lust for sensation and violence - foreseeable
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