Reviews with content warning for Blood - The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires

Lots of gross details you can tell it’s a man writing women. Lots of unnecessary naked women with WAY too many details and the sexualization of a minor

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ladychubb's review against another edition

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dark mysterious 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

3.0

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mel_e_reads's review

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dark sad tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix

Strong character development? No

Loveable characters? No

Diverse cast of characters? No

Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.5

Dark and violent, goes to places I was not expecting. It wasn’t the most provocative of reads but it was interesting. I think it did a good job showing what happens when people ignore bad in favor of the good things happening and what the fear of consequence does to people. It just happens to do this under a very bloody veil.

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Graphic: Blood, Sexual assault, Body horror, and Violence

ohheyash's review

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

georgiabee's review

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

Minor: Animal death and Kidnapping

ahyshia's review against another edition

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dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot

Strong character development? No

Diverse cast of characters? Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Injury/Injury detail, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Blood, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, Gore, Physical abuse, Self harm, and Suicide

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