Hi, my bookish people out there
I just read one of the most interesting, terrifying books that would give popular horror authors a run for their money. Grady Hendrix author of The Southern Book Guide to Slaying Vampires was out of this world amazing. The reviews had this mashed up with Steel Magnolias, Fried Green Tomatoes meets Dracula. This was more than that it was Stepford Wives meets True Blood.
When I first picked up my copy from the library let's be honest I had my doubts on this. One is that this was a male author writing from a woman's perspective. The second is that vampires have been done and redone thousands of times since Bram Stocker's Dracula. He nailed it especially if you were a young adult and lived through the early 1990s like I was. Hopefully, a good director reads this book and decides to do an adaptation for a movie. Some reviews thought that Grady Hendrix was being sexist in his book with the Southern housewife bit but honestly, he wasn't it was scarily accurate of how it was and in some places still is. I loved how he portrayed housewives to being more than what their husbands thought they were. They were mothers who shoulder the responsibilities of running their households, helping with their husband's careers, and so much more that has to get done like slaying vampires.
I gave this book 5 out of 5 stars. This book held my attention to the very end to see if the book club would be able to defeat the evil that hides in the night.
Trigger warnings: Suicide, rape, and abuse
Good Read's synopsis:
Patricia Campbell had always planned for a big life, but after giving up her career as a nurse to marry an ambitious doctor and become a mother, Patricia's life has never felt smaller. The days are long, her kids are ungrateful, her husband is distant, and her to-do list is never really done. The one thing she has to look forward to is her book club, a group of Charleston mothers united only by their love for true crime and suspenseful fiction. In these meetings, they're more likely to discuss the FBI's recent siege of Waco as much as the ups and downs of marriage and motherhood.
But when an artistic and sensitive stranger moves into the neighborhood, the book club's meetings turn into speculation about the newcomer. Patricia is initially attracted to him, but when some local children go missing, she starts to suspect the newcomer is involved. She begins her own investigation, assuming that he's a Jeffrey Dahmer or Ted Bundy. What she uncovers is far more terrifying, and soon she--and her book club--are the only people standing between the monster they've invited into their homes and their unsuspecting community.
Happy Reading,
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