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Study Guide: The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix
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60 pages, Paperback
Published November 26, 2021
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January 29, 2026
"I did not expect that I'd like this book nearly as much as I did. I threw a hold on it from the library because it filled a bunch of bingo slots and a few slots on other reading challenges I'm doing, but I didn't have particularly high expectations. The cover was nice, though, and I'm very glad I took the chance.
Added after the fact after thinking about the review for a bit: This is a novel about southern white lady internal politics, selfishness, bad husbands, and a vampire with great business sense.
This is a novel set in South Carolina in the 80s/90s, primarily in a wealthy-enough suburb. Our main character is a stay-at-home mom who likes to get together with some of the other wives in the area and talk about true-crime and suspense novels.
Then a new dude ends up moving into town, and weird stuff starts to happen. Rats get way more common and act quite un-rat-like, old people goa little nuts, and black children start killing themselves in terrible ways.
Our main character deals with feeling crazy herself, having her husband turn against her, and then having everyone tell her she's crazy, all because she expresses some moderate concern over the new guy.
The title and blurb give away quite a bit, and if you're reading reviews, you probably read both of those, but it's no secret this book has some paranormal elements. Not only are those elements why Patricia, our main character, gets called crazy, but they truly exist.
This book is weird. It uses some rather basic paranormal blocks in a truly odd setting, and it does so really well. The pacing shifts from what you'd expect from a book about a book club to a downright paranormal thriller and back and forth, and it's wonderful. Those standard paranormal blocks are also used to create a rather strong critique of what a wealthy suburb in South Carolina in the 90s might have valued, as well.
This isn't a very coherent review, and I understand that, but this book is a lot of things. Quirk Books, the publisher, puts out 25 'unconventional books per year', and I'll tell you what. This is definitely unconventional. I do have to say I'll be picking up more of their books after this one.
Anyway, if a group of southern ladies fighting a supernatural, very powerful vampire while risking their husbands' wrath and their lifestyle, all while doubting themselves, this is probably a good book. Well, particularly one lady, but her group comes and goes and comes as needed."
Added after the fact after thinking about the review for a bit: This is a novel about southern white lady internal politics, selfishness, bad husbands, and a vampire with great business sense.
This is a novel set in South Carolina in the 80s/90s, primarily in a wealthy-enough suburb. Our main character is a stay-at-home mom who likes to get together with some of the other wives in the area and talk about true-crime and suspense novels.
Then a new dude ends up moving into town, and weird stuff starts to happen. Rats get way more common and act quite un-rat-like, old people goa little nuts, and black children start killing themselves in terrible ways.
Our main character deals with feeling crazy herself, having her husband turn against her, and then having everyone tell her she's crazy, all because she expresses some moderate concern over the new guy.
The title and blurb give away quite a bit, and if you're reading reviews, you probably read both of those, but it's no secret this book has some paranormal elements. Not only are those elements why Patricia, our main character, gets called crazy, but they truly exist.
This book is weird. It uses some rather basic paranormal blocks in a truly odd setting, and it does so really well. The pacing shifts from what you'd expect from a book about a book club to a downright paranormal thriller and back and forth, and it's wonderful. Those standard paranormal blocks are also used to create a rather strong critique of what a wealthy suburb in South Carolina in the 90s might have valued, as well.
This isn't a very coherent review, and I understand that, but this book is a lot of things. Quirk Books, the publisher, puts out 25 'unconventional books per year', and I'll tell you what. This is definitely unconventional. I do have to say I'll be picking up more of their books after this one.
Anyway, if a group of southern ladies fighting a supernatural, very powerful vampire while risking their husbands' wrath and their lifestyle, all while doubting themselves, this is probably a good book. Well, particularly one lady, but her group comes and goes and comes as needed."
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