In this story, author Grady Hendrix pits middle-aged housewives, who share a passion for true crime books, against a vampire. At these meetings they’re as likely to talk about the Manson family as they are about their own families.One evening after book club, Patricia is viciously attacked by an elderly neighbor, bringing the neighbor’s handsome nephew, James Harris, into her life. ( Log Out / I won’t say too much, but wow – suburban moms are tough, and I loved the ending of this one! This is a book about a book club slaying vampires, as the title suggests. The only thing keeping her sane is her book club, a close-knit group of Charleston women united by their love of true crime. 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. I found The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires to be an addictive read from the very start. I've enjoyed the hell out of every Grady Hendrix book I've read, so I was very excited about this one too. But when children on the other side of town go missing, their deaths written off by local police, Patricia has reason to believe James Harris is more of a Bundy than a Brad Pitt. Another big part of what I enjoyed about the book was the social commentary it seemed to have, relevant to things today even alongside the gore, vampires, and book club meetings – present, but without being too heavy handed or overbearing. The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires PDF/EPUB Book Club's ePUB ´ Book Club's Guide to PDF or The Southern PDF/EPUB or Southern Book Club's PDF/EPUB æ 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 han. Keep it on your radar & pre-order, it’ll be out everywhere on April 7th! You need to sign up to download
cleverly sprinkles in nods to well-established vampire lore, and the fact that he’s a master at conjuring heady 1990s nostalgia is just the icing on what is his best book yet. Rating 8: An original, eerie, and deeply funny vampire story from the master of quirky and cheeky horror, “The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Vampire Slaying” is both scary and amusing! They lead different lives, have different husbands and houses, worry about different things – but they’re all mothers, they’re all members of a community, they’re all book lovers. In this story, author Grady Hendrix pits middle-aged housewives, who share a passion for true crime books, against a vampire. Even those not within the core circle of characters are fleshed out and well-written, whether that fleshing out makes them characters that I empathized with and ached for, or hated due to their absolute condescending BS (I won’t name names and spoil anything for you, but if you’ve read it, I’m sure you know who I mean!). ( Log Out / Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account.