It's October! Time for some Halloween-themed books!
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires
By Grady Hendrix
This week's book was suggested by another person on a Facebook group devoted to reading. She said she liked it quite a bit, while another lady said it was too scary/gory for her taste. I don't normally go for the overly gory horror films; I like my Halloween movies more on the cheesy/campy side. But I'm a sucker for a book involving a book group, and some reviews compared it to Steel Magnolias (it totally is nothing like Steel Magnolias and that was a terrible comparison).
As you would assume, a group of ladies meet to discuss books once a month that are on the true crime side. When some shady stuff starts happening with one of their next door neighbors, one lady thinks he might be a monster of some sort.
I'm not going to lie, there is definitely an ick factor, and if I had watched this as a film instead of reading it, I would have probably turned it off. I was also super annoyed with all of the husbands in the novel; admittedly this is based in the early 1990's south, so all of the ladies are a little too "stand by your man", but still.
If you are in the mood for a scary book with some blood and guts, I would suggest it.
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