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

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

59 reviews

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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tiudragonfly's review against another edition

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Extremely gory, sexist and racist.

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Graphic: Sexism, Murder, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Suicide attempt, Toxic friendship, Classism, Gore, Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Infidelity, Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Blood, Toxic relationship, Racism, Rape, Sexual violence, Animal cruelty, Child abuse, and Kidnapping

levanthium's review against another edition

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dark emotional hopeful sad medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix

Strong character development? Yes

Loveable characters? It's complicated

Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus? No

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Graphic: Sexual assault, Kidnapping, Adult/minor relationship, Rape, Hate crime, Racism, Animal death, and Misogyny

Moderate: Toxic friendship and Classism

Minor: Domestic abuse and Ableism

economydreams's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character

Strong character development? Yes

Loveable characters? Yes

Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Graphic: Rape, Suicide attempt, and Murder

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, and Toxic friendship

emilywemily6's review against another edition

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dark funny lighthearted 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? No

4.25

I really enjoyed this book and found it to have many more layers than I originally expected. It started off campy and hilarious, but turned more dark and serious. There is definitely both paranormal and more domestic-style horror elements and it felt like I read two different books between the first half and the second. I really appreciated the messaging about how no one listens to POC (specifically black people in this book), women, or children. And no one cares what happens to the black people in this book, many characters turn a blind eye and just say “oh well, that’s too bad” without giving it more thought. I feel like this book could have been a 5 star if it had been written by a black person and seen from Mrs. Greenie’s perspective. She was my favorite character!! I felt like the author did a pretty good job portraying Patricia in this book, but a lot of the other characters were more superficial. This book inspired a lot of unsettled feelings, both related to the paranormal and the relationships between the characters. It felt a little long and drawn out though, especially with Patricia getting back into the James Harris issue. I wish there had been more actual book club time throughout the book and that the friends could have been better friends to each other.

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Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Classism, Gaslighting, Pedophilia, Animal death, Cursing, Death, Mental illness, Toxic friendship, Kidnapping, Misogyny, Blood, Body horror, Child death, Dementia, Sexual assault, Rape, Self harm, Racism, Religious bigotry, Violence, Physical abuse, Child abuse, Murder, Sexual content, Gore, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Pregnancy, Terminal illness, Domestic abuse, Medical content, and Infidelity

urmotherrr's review

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dark emotional mysterious 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

4.25

This review is going to be filled with spoilers

So, honestly the title is kinda misleading. The book club fell apart halfway through, there was absolutely no guide for slaying vampires and there was only one vampire not vampires. And they only killed him in like the last few pages and no one even believed he was a vampire for most of the book.

The way the characters all didn’t believe Patricia was honestly super annoying and I hated her husband, I wish he died.

But the writing was very emotion provoking and it kept me hooked. Grady has an amazing talent of making you feel anxious for the characters. Yet, he does go off the deep end usually in the last view chapters

Overall it’s a good read and if you’re chill with paranormal stuff and gore then you’d enjoy it.

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Graphic: Gore, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Rape, Suicide attempt, Racism, Suicide, Death of parent, Sexual assault, Death, and Murder

Minor: Child death, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, and Vomit

torismazarine's review against another edition

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dark mysterious 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

3.75

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Graphic: Addiction, Child abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Chronic illness, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Domestic abuse, Gore, Animal death, Blood, Car accident, Dementia, Toxic relationship, Body horror, Death, Death of parent, Medical content, Sexual content, Suicide attempt, Child death, Forced institutionalization, Classism, Gaslighting, Pedophilia, Rape, Grief, Infidelity, Murder, Stalking, Misogyny, Racism, Religious bigotry, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Sexism, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Terminal illness, Toxic friendship, Violence, and Vomit

gg_reads41189's review against another edition

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challenging dark sad tense slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character

Strong character development? No

Loveable characters? No

Diverse cast of characters? No

Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.0

Content Warnings

Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Racism, Sexual violence, Misogyny, Toxic friendship, Suicide attempt, Torture, Religious bigotry, Infidelity, Rape, Toxic relationship, Pedophilia, and Physical abuse

kk_gotit_goinon's review against another edition

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challenging dark funny mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot

Strong character development? It's complicated

Loveable characters? It's complicated

Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

This was a really intense book! Oh my goodness. I was in the edge of my seat the whole time. I was angry, I was sad, I wanted to shake some things in the characters. I loved the way the author drew things out. It's a crazy book.

Content Warnings

Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Dementia, Medical content, Terminal illness, Rape, Sexual violence, Death, Blood, Body horror, Child death, Excrement, Forced institutionalization, Gore, Sexism, Suicide attempt, Grief, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Violence, Cursing, Mental illness, and Misogyny

maegenll's review against another edition

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dark tense slow-paced

Loveable characters? No

0.25

Should have DNF it

Content Warnings

Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Adult/minor relationship

Moderate: Toxic friendship, Rape, Violence, Suicide attempt, and Terminal illness

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