A review by lauren610
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix

1.0

 The author steps out of his lane a bit too much in this book and it was very much not enjoyable for me. The son's interest in Nazis is not treated with appropriate concern from the parent, which was red flag #1 to me. The women are all catty and one-dimensional. Every victim is Black. It's like he picked all the weird gross parts of the 90s to include, but not to provide any meaningful commentary on them, just to have racism, antisemitism, and abuse present. As another reviewer stated so well, if the book is going to have a vampire in it, we don't need to stick to historical accuracy here. We could have a successful Black character at least? But no. 
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