Reviews tagging 'Gore'

The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix

802 reviews

brandon_the_beldam2993's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

This was the first book I read by Grady Hendrix and I heard from nothing but endless praise for his writing style from friends..I’m in the camp now that believes that. 
There is some truly dark and sinister things that occur in this book. But it’s not totally hopeless there is a sense of uplifting with these women that just start a book club of mainly murder reads where they create a bond with each other. 
And eventually find themselves in a real life horror situation. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia, Gore, Cultural appropriation, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Sexual assault, Gaslighting, Classism, and Dementia

Moderate: Alcoholism and Animal death

This book has a lot of difficult moments to sit through because the writing and voices FEEL real..one scene in particular when Slick is by James Harris was really Raw and it didn’t feel like it was written into the story for a cheap shock, it hurt so much to read but i understand books show the harsher things in life.

galaxyelfjess's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

This book stressed me out especially in the last 150 pages

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Adult/minor relationship, Murder, Gore, and Pedophilia

Moderate: Sexual assault

The vampire has seemingly inappropriate relationships with children and him "feasting" is almost a sexual thing, with it describing the teenage daughter and the man in bed naked

lucasbrooks's review against another edition

dark sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

As an examination of sexism towards housewives and double work, it is a meaningful commentary. Do not be fooled by the title, description, or cover - this is not a fun romp with a vampire in suburbia. It is incredibly dark, with multiple needed content warnings. This is not a fun book - it is horror in the truest sense of the word. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Gore, Rape, and Self harm

rocio07's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Suicide attempt, Rape, Misogyny, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, Blood, Sexual assault, Gore, Sexism, and Gaslighting

staci_stasis's review

adventurous dark funny tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No

3.25

camp

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Body horror, Child death, Blood, Suicide attempt, and Child abuse

Moderate: Rape and Domestic abuse

lunaviolet's review

This was not written for me. It’s one of those crime/mystery books written for middle aged white American moms, if you know what I mean. I don’t mean that in a bad way at all, I just don’t enjoy those books.

Some things that were in this book that you may want to know about in advance: the main characters son has an obsession with Nazis (no idea where this sub plot goes since I didn’t finish the book, but it’s mentioned frequently), racism (it takes place in the south in the 90s in a white community. But also, there is a

moderately graphic description of a lynching of a black man

so proceed at your own risk), a woman

bites off the ear of the main character. Like explicitly. On page.

Those are the main things that stood out to me

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore and Violence

Moderate: Racism

grace_reads_sometimes's review against another edition

dark emotional funny mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Gore, Violence, and Sexism

Moderate: Sexual assault, Racism, Rape, Ableism, and Pedophilia

Minor: Domestic abuse and Injury/Injury detail

jordanereuer's review against another edition

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Gore, and Body horror

marswritesthings's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Gore, Violence, Murder, and Death

Moderate: Racism

cavernism's review against another edition

dark funny sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

Definitely the darkest of Grady Hendrix's books I've read, and maybe the most horrifying, and not in a fun romp sort of way. Read the content warning tags before you dive in- I really wish I had, because I was expecting a different tone based on Hendrix's other books. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Gaslighting, Child death, Suicide, Gore, and Violence

Moderate: Pedophilia, Sexual violence, Rape, Animal death, and Racism