Reviews tagging 'Rape'

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

1262 reviews

katenovah's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense slow-paced

• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicide, Blood, Dementia, and Death of parent

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicide, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Medical content, Dementia, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, and Alcohol

fkshg8465's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted mysterious sad 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

4.25

Much better than I thought it was going to be, mostly because I found the title so ridiculous. Turns out that the book was a lot of fun to read and that the title is very apropos. It was a little longer than I would’ve liked - I would’ve removed some of the events, maybe even whole chapters, because the first third of the book had me rolling my eyes. But I had enjoyed How to Sell a Haunted House, so I stuck with it, and I’m so glad I did.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Medical content, Dementia, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

themdash's review against another edition

dark mysterious 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? Yes

4.0

Dear god please check the content warnings.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Medical content, Dementia, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

dinma_reads's review against another edition

dark mysterious fast-paced

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

2.5

2.5 stars. Overall, it was okay. Such descriptive writing (for better or worse)! I don’t see myself reading anything by this author again though. Lacked relational depth, but it had its moments. I didn’t think enough care was given to how disturbing, horrific scenes were depicted and so add these trigger warnings: r*pe, child abuse, child death, su*cide, racism, predation, s*xual manipulation(?) of minors

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Rape, and Death of parent

Such descriptive writing! Lacked relational depth but it had it’s moments. Some things were never circled back to that really should've been. Lots of casual racism to the point that I couldn’t parse out whether it was meant to be a larger commentary on those types of communities and the women in them or….. But they did make some points regarding only being kicked into action when certain kinds of people were in danger vs others.

rocketdea's review against another edition

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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Misogyny, Sexism, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Animal cruelty and Racism

Minor: Animal death, Child death, Domestic abuse, Rape, Suicide, Vomit, Suicide attempt, and Classism

brooksca12's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny lighthearted tense fast-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Rape, Violence, and Suicide attempt

jesserbessers's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Gore, Rape, Violence, and Blood

kelsosmithe's review against another edition

mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes

3.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape, Self harm, and Suicide attempt

hellsbails_98's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Blood, and Murder

rubiecore's review against another edition

dark emotional funny mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.0

i honestly almost completely gave up on this in the first 30-40% but then i had to ask myself, am i annoyed bc it's genuinely bad or bc that's how the author wants you to feel? there were so many moments where i was annoyed, mostly with the male characters but also with the book club. i didn't love them as much as everyone else did. like, i understand them and their struggles sure, but they're still white women and the only reason the vampire was slayed was bc a black woman and her community suffered first. that is mentioned and acknowledged by them in the story but it bothered me to no end. this was something i had to sit with for a little bit to really reel in my thoughts on because, yes although they are white women and they allowed a black community to suffer in their place, they still experienced misogyny at the hands of their husbands and the expectations set forth for them, they are not the villains here, obviously, but it still annoyed me a little bit.

the men were all horrible, obviously, but carter's specific insistence to medicate everyone in his family the second anything is actually wrong with them is so goddamn annoying.

i started enjoying this a lot more after the time skip once everything came together and there was more actual "horror" involved lmao. and maybe this is me being petty, but i'm shaving a little off the rating and making it a 3.75 bc there was something that i think should have happened at the end that Didn't.

overall though, i enjoyed hendrix's writing and tandem read this along with the audiobook and enjoyed the way the narrator really brought all of the characters to life. i think reading the author's note beforehand is especially important to understand why the characters are written the way they are. and i would also reccommend checking the trigger warnings bc i did Not and had to take a break after That happened to one of the characters.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Rape, and Suicide attempt