People's refusal to see sexism and harmful representation when it looks them straight in the face is what led this book to have such great reviews. Some even applaud the (male) author for being so good at writing female characters and I sit here flabbergasted, trying make my brain comprehend how they came to that conclusion.Let's get the obvious out of the way: I'm a white man - and so is the author. Pick your fighter. I'm stating how I perceived the book and as someone who is super keen to read...

Patricia Campbell has a full life, but that doesn't necessarily mean it's fulfilling. With the majority of her time being dedicated to her family, the one thing she has for herself are the evenings she spends with her friends, the ladies of the Murderinos Book Club.The Club consists of like-minded Southern housewives, who discuss True Crime and other socially unsavory topics.Cleverly, different sections of the book are titled after real-life True Crime books. These are based upon what the Club i...

But more like 4.5 stars. I LOVED THIS.

oooh, goodreads choice awards finalist for best horror 2020! what will happen?"I am not sure what the appropriate gesture is to make toward the family of the woman who bit off your ear, but if you felt absolutely compelled, I certainly wouldn’t take food.”the thing that i am always forgetting about grady hendrix is that although his books have these zany and hilarious premises and are all decked out in wink-nudgey cover design: haunted ikea!teengirl exorcism!—like Beaches meets The Exorcist, onl...

no!!!! i think the fuck not!!! (shoutout to zac for journeying through the madness w me tho!)

Reread with a change to 5 stars! You don’t mess with the house wives! They will just snap and get even! It was so sweet 😉I love these ladies!! Boo Daddy, Boo DaddyIn the woods Grabbed a little boy'Cause he taste so good Boo Daddy, Boo DaddyIn the sheets Sucking all your blood 'Cause it taste so sweet Boo Daddy, Boo DaddyOne, two, threesSneaking in my window And sucking on me ***********first read 4 stars **************I wanted to smack everyone in this damn book! But that ending was 5 star cr...

"The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires" by Grady Hendrix is a creative mix of Horror and Southern Fiction! Well, yes, please and thank you! I love Horror, Y'all! Give it to me! And, then give me some more!Patricia Campbell is an ex-nurse who is now married to a doctor, who is never home and when he is, he ignores and stifles her. Her two kids are ungrateful complainers. She is mostly lonely and bored. Yep, she's living the dream!Patricia does love her book club friends though. They

My vote for Goodreads choice awards for horror genre! I truly deeply madly in love with this book! More than five gazillion stars! Somebody has to stop my fingers adding entire books of the author to my nearly collapsing Mount TBR! But I cannot stop with only one book. Can I? They defined this book as mash up of Steel Magnolias-Fried Green Tomatoes and Dracula! No, sir: this is Stepford Wives and Southern Desperate Housewives meet True Blood! This book is not easy, entertaining reading! It is so...

I really think that Grady Hendrix has written his best book yet, and he did it all while dressed as a penguin. Not a lot of people know this, but in the two years it took him to write SOUTHERN BOOK CLUB he wore the exact same penguin costume every day while he wrote. By the time this book was finished that costume was a rancid, disgusting mess and he had to have it pulled from his body by hooks and burned because it was a biohazard.

I struggled with the rating of this book between three and four stars (so 3.5). I loved the opening, the voice of the character. The story was light and engaging. The characters are unique and the repartee real and enjoyable. I knew the premise of this book going in. I have always said that I will read anything-any genre as long as it is written well. Having said that I am not a big fan of vampire stories (although I truly loved The Passage and that was a vampire book of sorts). This author is g...

A stylistic and fun horror book with lots of gnarly scenes. I like that we get to focus on housewives, especially since they are often underestimated and would definitely be experts in cleaning up blood and other messes. The antagonist is the most deplorable villain I’ve read all year with extremely repulsive and heinous actions. The men in this book are infuriatingly condescending, and I was surprised that the author did such an accurate job at portraying such disrespect through a woman’s POV.

4.5 starsYaHoo!! Hot Diggity Dang! This is one brilliantly done story!!! So how does what seems like a stereotyped, sexist story about southern woman in a book club turn into a skin-crawling, blood soaking story? Then turn into a refreshing, powering, brilliantly houmous story with meaningful character development. Well, Grady Hendrix does some mightly fine footwork here, and I couldn't help but analyze this story. This one is not my normal story and one that was not on my radar to read, but aft...

Instagram || Twitter || Facebook || Amazon || PinterestMy favorite work of Grady Hendrix's is actually his nonfiction collection of essays, PAPERBACKS FROM HELL, which is a loving homage to the horror genre that covers everything from Gothics to ghouls. As someone who reads pulps on the reg, I was excited to see someone else who appreciated trash as much as I do-- there's something about finding an out-of-print gem that nobody has heard of and getting everyone excited about reading it... it'

Then she got in her Volvo and hoped Grace was right and this was all just a product of the overactive imagination of a stupid little housewife with too much free time on her hands. If it was, she promised herself, tomorrow she would vacuum her curtains. I FREAKIN' LOVED THIS. I loved every single dark, funny, gory minute of this book. I'm in no way qualified to talk about best and worst books, but I can say with absolute certainty that this is my favourite book so far this year.For the first

DNF @ 63%Go ahead, call me a quitter. I can take it. In fact, I own it.Touted as Fried Green Tomatoes and Steel Magnolias meet Dracula—unfounded comparisons in my opinion—this novel at times felt like too much, yet somehow not enough. Much like the bored housewives within these pages who find themselves bogged down with daily chores, family obligations, child-rearing, and their sexist and controlling husbands, I yearned for more. The author loosely connects these women with a book club that take...

Patricia Campbell remembers what life was like before she gave into motherhood - she was an amazing nurse and strong-willed.But marriage changed all that. She's now a stay-at-home mom and with the way her husband treats her...it is a sobering thought, the life that's ahead of her.But at least she has book club.Every meeting they go over the latest true-crime or grisly detective book. It is the one time that Patricia feels like herself.And then...HE moved in. The new neighbor.At first it was

I liked the writing of The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires very much except for the extreme, over the top, way too much (for me) gory and gross passages describing, in too much detail, rats, roaches (the worst!), spiders, blood sucking, like I never imagined it, horribleness. Picture a small, well to do community where no one locks their doors, the kids are safe playing outside until dark or even after dark, the men earn the income, and their high achieving housewives iron socks a...

“Sometimes she craved a little danger. And that was why she had book club.”FINALLY. I have found my first five star book of the year that wasn’t a reread or non-fiction! This book is basically Desperate Housewives set in the late 80s/early 90s and the housewives started a true crime book club, only for a vampire to move in down the street... sounds awesome, right?!It’s a hell of a lot of fun, simply unputdownable, but it also tackles some more hefty issues that were relevant at the time, like th...

I know I shouldn't judge a book by its title, but The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires got me real good. It sounds like a fun, lighthearted take on slaying vampires, mixed in with some Southern hospitality and book club joviality. And it started out that way. But then it went somewhere else altogether.If I were to sum up this book with one word, it would be gross. Every time I picked it up, I would read some passages on rats eating people alive, or cockroaches wiggling into ears, o...

Yes, there were some gruesome moments, but the shiny appeal that this book brought was the portrayal of the resilience and underestimated power of the "common" housewife. *Many thanks to the publisher for providing my review copy.