Reviews tagging 'Child death'

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

537 reviews

gaylelabreche's review

4.75

Genuinely terrifying. Delightfully creepy as hell. I loved all the characters SO MUCH. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dementia, Racism, Sexual assault, Blood, Domestic abuse, Pedophilia, Rape, Suicide attempt, Gore, Murder, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Child death, and Death

sweetsouthwest's review

mysterious slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

Very clearly women written by a man, especially with the gratuitous inclusion of rape.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, and Death

Moderate: Child death, Suicide, and Child abuse

Minor: Misogyny and Pregnancy

spikytortoise's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual violence, Animal cruelty, Child abuse, Child death, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, Rape, Sexual content, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, and Death

muffycantread's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

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

1.5

I enjoyed this book a little until about halfway through the book. Not the vampire slasher you want. Reading this made me feel like I was slowly drowning and not in a suspenseful, enduring way. Most of the "thrills" are pretty predictable anyway. Would rate 1 star if I wasn't truly enjoying the first 200 or so pages. It had so much potential... I will not be reading another Grady Hendrix and I think he'll be fine. >:( 
 

the amount of graphic sexual assault and domestic abuse of women and children ultimately seemed completely unnecessary for telling the story!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Sexual violence, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, Rape, Child death, Gore, Sexism, and Suicide

mxbadger's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.75

So hard to put down. As a huge fan of true crime myself it was so easy to wrap myself up in the "what would you do?" Of it all. A little jaw dropping at times, but would definitely reccomend to modern horror fans

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Self harm, Gaslighting, Violence, and Body horror

Moderate: Self harm, Addiction, Child death, and Death of parent

gspear's review

dark emotional inspiring reflective fast-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: Blood, Body horror, Torture, and Murder

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship and Child death

urnee's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny sad tense medium-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Religious bigotry, Child death, Sexual assault, Animal death, Blood, Domestic abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, and Gore

kayteaface's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death

Moderate: Rape and Animal death

ohheyash's review

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.5

This book did take me a min. to get through. I was neither good nor bad. I think the mid to end of the book picked up for me. I can say that how housewives were treated by their husbands in this book had me ready to go through the book and help them out!! I like how a group of women, especially one in particular, came together to save the day. It’s messed up what happens along the way though.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Sexual assault, Blood, Misogyny, Suicide attempt, Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Death, and Rape

georgiabee's review

challenging dark tense fast-paced

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

4.5

I flew through this book. I liked the writing style a lot — I was worried as I DNFed The Final Girls Support Group because I’m not a horror movie fan, but was pleasantly surprised by this one. Don’t let the pretty cover fool you, this shit gets daaaark. Like, def check out the trigger warnings for this one. 

This is a supernatural horror, so there was obviously some suspension of disbelief involved. That said,

why did no one question the rats??? Like, I know they didn’t publicize Ms Mary’s rat death a bunch because it was weird and gross, but was no one like WTF?? Where’d all those rats come from?

. I also wish we’d gotten to know more about this particular brand of vampire lore as it clearly departed from Dracula/Edward Cullen standard vamp rules.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Death, Dementia, Gore, Rape, Sexism, Suicide attempt, Violence, and Child death

Minor: Animal death and Kidnapping