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The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix
461 reviews
kk_gotit_goinon's review against another edition
- 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
Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Gore, Mental illness, Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Excrement, Medical content, Dementia, Grief, Suicide attempt, and Toxic friendship
codyboteler's review against another edition
- 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? Yes
2.5
Graphic: Body horror, Sexual violence, Violence, Blood, and Suicide attempt
Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Rape, and Suicide attempt
Minor: Alcoholism
sim97's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.0
In fact, all the husbands are stupid. I hate them all.
It takes so long to get to the actual point of the book but i got into it a lot more in the second half.
He didn’t hit an eleven year old boy that hard but the boy lost his hearing in one ear?!
I didn’t enjoy the vivid detail about some of the gore. And it took too long for what it was.
This could easily have worked if they had kept it to white neighbourhoods. Maybe if this was written by a black author the inclusion of race and the subsequent plot lines related to it wouldn’t have me in two minds.
I didn’t hate it but I didn’t love it. I think more than anything I was just committed to finishing a book because I have been in a year long reading slump.
When I don’t have much in way of thoughts I just default to a three. Maybe that’s generous? I don’t know.
Minor: Child death, Death, Rape, Sexual violence, and Murder
slippyhead's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.0
Graphic: Sexual violence
xeniba's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
2.0
It felt very “white women’s tears” and of course the person who ended up taking charge and doing the dirty work was the one Black character.
I get that it’s probably supposed to be about the patriarchy and racism and gentrification, but I really don’t need to read about that from a white dude. I definitely will not be reading anymore of his books.
This was my first fiction audiobook and I did enjoy the narrator, so that’s something.
Graphic: Gore, Misogyny, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Blood, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Death and Alcohol
Minor: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Infidelity, and Forced institutionalization
bookphilos's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A
3.75
Graphic: Domestic abuse, Drug use, Hate crime, Misogyny, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Murder
Minor: Pedophilia
shirleonelsie's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
2.0
The beginning was good.
The ending was great.
But the middle, the majority of the book, slogged. I think I sped read through 40+ pages.
There were moments where I felt like the explaining or the moments during characters disbelief were going on for way too long and I just felt myself prodding the author to just get to rhe point. I was also extremely annoyed that the husband's reacted the way they did. I get disbelief, but they were outright disrespectful and unkind. Not okay.
I did go into this book thinking it was going to be a group of vamps that the book club needed to take down. And the synopsis gives me a little more like a dramatic bloody fight where we got more of an attack and destruction. (I really don't want to give too much away.)
I think, overall, I was very disappointed. The way it was written and the plot gives off a "could have been way shorter" book. What we were given, in my opinion, was way too few short little moments that were dragged on unnecessarily long. I needed more meat to full in those gaps. Or - make it a shorter book.
(I use other book tracking apps so you might see this verbatim elsewhere!)
Graphic: Death, Rape, Sexual violence, Blood, and Classism
lmszalay's review against another edition
3.5
Graphic: Death, Rape, Sexual violence, and Suicide attempt
degitzlibrary's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Graphic: Gaslighting
Moderate: Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide, and Suicide attempt
Minor: Infidelity and Physical abuse
transkidjulian's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.5
Graphic: Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence