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

43 reviews

monarchbooks'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

This book finally taught me never to read a book without checking content warnings

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia, Suicidal thoughts, Murder, Animal death, Gaslighting, Death, Body horror, Violence, Suicide attempt, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Rape, Religious bigotry, Addiction, and Child death

ecn's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad fast-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

You know what’s going to happen the whole way but it was a fun story to sit with for a while.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Gaslighting, Gore, Medical content, Body horror, Emotional abuse, and Blood

Moderate: Classism, Death, Death of parent, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Sexism, Sexual assault, Suicide attempt, Violence, Dementia, Racism, Religious bigotry, Misogyny, Rape, and Suicide

sunsetcity's review against another edition

challenging dark funny lighthearted mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cancer, Dementia, Toxic friendship, Violence, Cannibalism, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Misogyny, Murder, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicide attempt, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Blood, Child death, Classism, Gaslighting, Gore, Infidelity, Medical content, Pedophilia, Racism, Sexism, Emotional abuse, Grief, Religious bigotry, and Sexual assault

kaceyjoy's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

1.0

This book was not for me. I should have just stopped reading it, but i struggle to ever do that, always hopeful it'll get better. There was just too much misogyny, too much white guilt, too many gorey details, and not enough interest for me. I appreciate the idea, but the execution was just not what I wanted out of the book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child abuse, Child death, Classism, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Dementia, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Sexism, Toxic friendship, Misogyny, Murder, Sexual assault, Gaslighting, Pedophilia, Suicide attempt, Animal cruelty, Colonisation, Gore, Religious bigotry, Toxic relationship, Violence, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Forced institutionalization, Suicidal thoughts, Racism, and Sexual violence

madsforbooks's review against another edition

0.25

explain to me why this book spoke about misogyny in fictional books and then used all the same misogynistic tropes it was trying to call out ???  also the racism that got maybe 2 or 3 lines of referencing despite how virulent it was throughout the whole book ???  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Murder, Gore, and Religious bigotry

ka_ke's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires is a new favourite! The beginning was a little slow, but absolutely necessary! Once you get to the middle you won’t be able to put it down! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Child death, Death, Dementia, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Murder, and Misogyny

Moderate: Rape, Religious bigotry, Self harm, Sexual violence, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, and Vomit

hannahandrea's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious slow-paced

• 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? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Blood, Death, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Murder, Religious bigotry, and Forced institutionalization

lorinew1's review against another edition

dark lighthearted tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Blood, Cannibalism, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Bullying, Child death, Chronic illness, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Gore, Grief, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Rape, Religious bigotry, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Vomit

barefootamy's review against another edition

dark emotional funny tense medium-paced

• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism

Moderate: Alcoholism, Blood, Death, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Gore, Infidelity, Pedophilia, Racism, Rape, Religious bigotry, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Vomit

falchionm's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Violence, Sexism, Blood, Gore, Misogyny, and Racism

Moderate: Religious bigotry, Torture, Vomit, Dementia, Animal death, and Sexual assault

Minor: Suicide

I thought this would be a fun book. It is clever and references other works of literature along the way that wink to the reader. It features a true crime book club of moms, the main character starts noticing odd behavior of a newcomer that might be suspicious. There is pushback and gaslighting, and the book is sometimes stressful, though very skillfully written as a thrilling narrative.