Reviews tagging 'Cannibalism'

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

64 reviews

jcpreads's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

4.25

I saw a lot of mixed reviews on this book so it made me a little apprehensive when I started reading but I can honestly say that I don’t know why this had several low ratings. I enjoyed it from start to finish. 

The writing was well done and beautifully versed at times while still managing to portray a dark, questionable plot. Hendrix was also able to sneak in bits and pieces of plot points that made our MC seem unreliable when it seemed to matter most. 

THE RATS. I was not prepared for the rats. I’m usually really good with gross/dark/detailed scenes but this one had me crawling out of my own skin. The detailed descriptions were so well done I felt like I was experiencing this first hand. Same thing with the attic scene. If you know, you know. 

A little over halfway through I found myself feeling frustrated that things weren’t playing out how I wanted them too. A lot of the roadblocks and issues at hand had a huge amount to do with the time period of the plot, which I tried to be understanding and cognizant of but that didn’t make it any less irritating. I’ll just say this: I could not have ever been a housewife in the 90s. No. Thank. You. 

Overall, this book had me captivated from start to finish - there was significantly unexpected character development with different plot lines that all circled back to the one main plot point. Hendrix did a great job bringing this idea to life and executed it in a manner that was wholesome, yet still incredibly dark and sometimes scary. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Animal cruelty, Cannibalism, and Blood

mehills's review

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

4.0

Bloody hell (Literally). 

Hard to say if I actually enjoyed this, But I certainly couldn’t put it down!  So much more suspenseful than I thought it would be. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Cannibalism, Child death, Death, and Gore

Moderate: Gaslighting

cate_with_a_c's review against another edition

It was good until it wasn’t. I didn’t like that all the men didn’t believe their wives when they were concerned for their children. Lots of sexism and fat phobia. I got bored about the half way point and couldn’t justify finishing it. Seemed like the women start out strong and the obvious abuse from some of the husbands was unnecessary and upsetting.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cannibalism, Dementia, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Antisemitism, Fatphobia, and Domestic abuse

bookswithbri's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Body horror, Sexism, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Rape, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Child abuse

Minor: Pedophilia and Cannibalism

howl's review against another edition

dark tense

• Strong character development? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated

3.0

This entire book felt like the scenes near the beginning of a horror movie in which the husband doesn’t believe his wife when she tells him their house is haunted 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism, Body horror, Cannibalism, Gaslighting, Gore, Racism, Rape, and Suicide attempt

nadia_opalek's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Cannibalism, Child abuse, Child death, Death of parent, Dementia, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Gore, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Murder, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide attempt, and Toxic relationship

emma_123's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Cannibalism, Child abuse, Child death, Murder, Rape, Self harm, Sexual harassment, and Suicide

annir's review against another edition

challenging dark tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Dementia, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Misogyny, Self harm, and Sexism

Moderate: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Forced institutionalization, Gore, Grief, Infidelity, Kidnapping, Murder, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Violence

Minor: Addiction, Animal death, Animal cruelty, Cancer, Cannibalism, Medical content, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Stalking, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Trafficking, and Vomit

gnomepartay's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Cannibalism, Chronic illness, Death, Death of parent, Dementia, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Gore, Infidelity, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Misogyny, Murder, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, and Violence

jasminewright's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

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

3.25

This book was definitely not something I would usually read but it was entertaining. I liked the characters and really felt sympathy for their situation. It was really creepy and some of the scarier scenes really creeped me out 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Blood, Cannibalism, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide, and Suicide attempt