#The Southern Book Clubs Guide To Slaying Vampires
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“A reader lives many lives,” James Harris said. “The person who doesn’t read lives but one. But if you’re happy just doing what you’re told and reading what other people think you should read, then don’t let me stop you. I just find it sad.”
—James Harris in The Southern Book Club's Guide To Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix
Because vampires are the original serial killers, stripped of everything that makes us human—they have no friends, no family, no roots, no children. All they have is hunger. They eat and eat but they’re never full. With this book, I wanted to pit a man freed from all responsibilities but his appetites against women whose lives are shaped by their endless responsibilities. I wanted to pit Dracula against my mom. As you’ll see, it’s not a fair fight.
— Grady Hendrix, author's note on The Southern Book Club's Guide To Slaying Vampires
#hes a villain btw i hate james harris all my homies hate james harris#james harris#the southern book club's guide to slaying vampires#The Southern Book Clubs Guide To Slaying Vampires#grady hendrix#glen powell
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Book Review: The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires
by 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 blood-sucking fiend.
Patricia Campbell had always planned for a big life, but after giving up her career as a nurse to marry an ambitious doctor and become a mother, Patricia's life has never felt smaller. The days are long, her kids are ungrateful, her husband is distant, and her to-do list is never really done. The one thing she has to look forward to is her book club, a group of Charleston mothers united only by their love for true-crime and suspenseful fiction. In these meetings, they're more likely to discuss the FBI's recent siege of Waco as much as the ups and downs of marriage and motherhood.
But when an artistic and sensitive stranger moves into the neighborhood, the book club's meetings turn into speculation about the newcomer. Patricia is initially attracted to him, but when some local children go missing, she starts to suspect the newcomer is involved. She begins her own investigation, assuming that he's a Jeffrey Dahmer or Ted Bundy. What she uncovers is far more terrifying, and soon she--and her book club--are the only people standing between the monster they've invited into their homes and their unsuspecting community.
ISBN: 9781683691457 (2020) | Source: Goodreads
Maybe Slightly Interesting but Most Part Boring
This book confused me so much and I am not referring to the content. I was reading page after page after page because I wanted to find out what was James Harris's deal and what the ending would be like, but oh my goodness, I was bored majority of the time. As a horror thriller, this was disappointing because The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires was neither horrifying nor thrilling...
James was the worst villain in this book, you know who made better villains here? The husbands. At least those useless husbands got a rise out of me, especially Carter and the abusive one whom I have forgotten the name of now.
Okay, so I have a lot of issues with The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires but none of that can beat my hatred for the feeding process. Do the victims need to be completely naked? What was the point of them being completely naked? I don't know Hendrix's works (this was my first) but I seriously hope he does not over-sexualise things that don't need to be over-sexualised in his other books. Seriously, what does being completely naked have to do with the plot of this book?
Someone who shares similar reading preferences to me loved this book so naturally, I expected to love this book. Unfortunately, it was disappointment after disappointment. Now thinking back, I think I only liked one character and that's Mrs Greene. I do not hate the book but there is no love for it either.
Rating: ★★★☆☆
#book review#the southern book club's guide to slaying vampires#the southern book clubs guide to slaying vampires#grady hendrix#james harris
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I'm listening to the Southern book clubs guide to slaying vampires again and (slight spoilers) like the scariest parts aren't even the bugs or rats or vampire it's the way the husbands band together to infantilise, gaslight, divide, and shut down Patricia and the titular book club like I can listen to the while attic scene on one go but not anything with all the husbands
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Currently reading The southern book club’s guide to slaying vampires…. And I’ve never wanted to beat down a man the way I want to beat tf out of Carter. He bout to catch all these hands
#the southern book club's guide to slaying vampires#grady hendrix#vampires#horror book recommendation#horror books#the way I want to fight him#Fr got me f up
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ME LISTENING TO THESE WOMEN DISMEMBER THIS MAN LIKE
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“A reader lives many lives,” James Harris said. “The person who doesn’t read lives but one.”
Grady Hendrix, The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires
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#polls#book: the southern book club's guide to slaying vampires#author: grady hendrix#genre: horror#year: 2020s
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Round 1
The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it, no paper notices on downtown posts and billboards, no mentions or advertisements in local newspapers. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not.
-The Night Circus, Erin Morgenstern
It is said - and it is true - that just before we are born, a cavern angel holds his finger to our mouths and whispers, "Hush! Don't tell what you know." That is why we have a cleft on our upper lips and remember nothing of where we came from.
-Prince Ombra, Roderic MacLeish
This story ends in blood. Every story begins in blood: a squalling baby yanked from the womb, bathed in mucus and half a quart of their mother's blood. But not many stories end in blood these days.
-The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires, Grady Hendrix
#books#polls#reading#round 1#tournament poll#the night circus#erin morgenstern#prince ombra#roderic macleish#The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires#grady hendrix
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September TBR
Bring on the gothic, dark academia, mystery, and vampires! Starting with The Cartographers 😊
#books#september tbr#the path of thorns#white is for witching#gentleman and players#the cartographers#the cherry robbers#the southern book club's guide to slaying vampires
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Book haul from today!
There were so many books that I wanted to pick up but, of course, I had to stick to a budget. Thrilled that there were sales going on.
#the sunbearer trials#hell followed with us#the only good indians#gideon the ninth#the southern book club's guide to slaying vampires#book haul
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Grady Hendrix (My Best Friend's Exorcism, The Final Girl Support Group) will publish How to Sell a Haunted House on January 17, 2023 via Berkley Publishing.
The 400-page horror novel will be available in hardcover, e-book, and audio book. Read the synopsis below.
Every childhood home is haunted, and each of us are possessed by our parents.
When their parents die at the tail end of the coronavirus pandemic, Louise and Mark Joyner are devastated but nothing can prepare them for how bad things are about to get. The two siblings are almost totally estranged, and couldn’t be more different. Now, however, they don’t have a choice but to get along. The virus has passed, and both of them are facing bank accounts ravaged by the economic meltdown. Their one asset? Their childhood home. They need to get it on the market as soon as possible because they need the money. Yet before her parents died they taped newspaper over the mirrors and nailed shut the attic door.
Sometimes we feel like puppets, controlled by our upbringing and our genes. Sometimes we feel like our parents treat us like toys, or playthings, or even dolls. The past can ground us, teach us, and keep us safe. It can also trap us, and bind us, and suffocate the life out of us. As disturbing events stack up in the house, Louise and Mark have to learn that sometimes the only way to break away from the past, sometimes the only way to sell a haunted house, is to burn it all down.
Pre-order How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix.
#grady hendrix#how to sell a haunted house#horror#horror books#horror novels#berkley publishing#book#gift#my best friend's exorcism#the final girl support group#horrorstor#paperbacks from hell#the southern book club's guide to slaying vampires
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#the southern book club’s guide to slaying vampires#grady hendrix#books#creepy reads#hello halloween#book journal#horror
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Reading/watching basically any book or show that takes place in the suburbs like ma’am divorce him immediately
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I need to shake Carter very hard and then slap him like, twice at least
#the southern book club’s guide to slaying vampires#nothing important#I'm only 43% into the book#perhaps I'll add more slaps later on
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hey what are ur thots on the southern book club's guide? i was thinking of getting it so curious if it's worth a read
well im a bit conflicted about it. honestly i really enjoyed about the first 75-ish% of the book, it was super interesting and funny and dark and intriguing. theres a few moments where the horror is truly so fucking gross in a way that i really enjoyed, and i wanted to talk to everyone about this book. then as it was starting to get close to the climax, there's like a dramatic tone shift, and i really could not enjoy the rest of the book after that. what was supposed to be the biggest and most exciting chapter kinda fell flat for me, and the ending didnt feel, idk, earned?
i'm curious if anyone else who read it feels the same way cause it was such a surprising letdown for me. there are things i like about the ending in theory but even the delivery suddenly felt bored to me, like the author was tired of writing it. it kept making me think that the author had decided the book needed a moral of the story but hadn't done much to take the steps to even set that moral up in a way that felt natural. i was surprised at how so much of the book had felt so introspective and self-aware only to wind up preachy and trite.
none of this is to say don't buy it and read it - you may enjoy the end more than i did. the book brings up a lot of interesting subjects, namely about misogyny and racism and their place within horror, and again i thought the majority of the book handled it pretty well. i've seen other tumblr horror girlies recommend this book though so maybe it just really wasnt my cup of tea at the end.
#i rlly do need to talk to someone else who's read it too to see what other people thought of it cause i was just#i was just so shocked i went from being so interested in it to so bored. within the course of like a few bad chapters.#and it sucks that thats what the book ends on#you could have a few bad chapters in the middle and it would be whatever#dickwheelie#answered#the southern book club's guide to slaying vampires
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