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The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix
4.0
“Her one job was to protect her children from monsters. The ones under the bed, the ones in the closet, the ones hiding in the dark. Instead, she’d invited the monster into her home and been too weak to stop it from taking whatever it wanted.”
I had two most anticipated reads this year and this one was tied for top spot with Home Before Dark! This was my first Hendrix novel and it was SO good; methinks I have fallen in love at first novel.
I loved how this book was one big dissection of misogyny and marriage and how undervalued most wives are by their husbands, regardless of what they’ve sacrificed to raise their families. I stayed mad this whole book because of the way these men treated their wives, from domestic abuse, gaslighting, emotional neglect, and over-medication. These women are very nuanced characters and so well-written as they struggle to face the reality of getting older, raising teenagers, and realizing that their picture-perfect lives aren’t as wonderful as they once thought. The antagonist in this book was FANTASTIC. He reminded me so much of Pennywise from IT (my fav villain) and the gore and horror aspects of this were very well-balanced and not overdone in the slightest.
This was such a fun and creepy read with wonderful insights into the realities of motherhood and unhealthy marriages. Highly recommend!
Quote: “He thinks we’re what we look like on the outside: nice Southern ladies. Let me tell you something...there’s nothing nice about Southern ladies.”
I had two most anticipated reads this year and this one was tied for top spot with Home Before Dark! This was my first Hendrix novel and it was SO good; methinks I have fallen in love at first novel.
I loved how this book was one big dissection of misogyny and marriage and how undervalued most wives are by their husbands, regardless of what they’ve sacrificed to raise their families. I stayed mad this whole book because of the way these men treated their wives, from domestic abuse, gaslighting, emotional neglect, and over-medication. These women are very nuanced characters and so well-written as they struggle to face the reality of getting older, raising teenagers, and realizing that their picture-perfect lives aren’t as wonderful as they once thought. The antagonist in this book was FANTASTIC. He reminded me so much of Pennywise from IT (my fav villain) and the gore and horror aspects of this were very well-balanced and not overdone in the slightest.
This was such a fun and creepy read with wonderful insights into the realities of motherhood and unhealthy marriages. Highly recommend!
Quote: “He thinks we’re what we look like on the outside: nice Southern ladies. Let me tell you something...there’s nothing nice about Southern ladies.”