The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires

This was my first Grady Hendrix, and my first "vampire book" since Anne Rice’s. It’s the story of what a genteel housewife in a proper suburb does when a man she considers dangerous moves to town.

Forget convincing her husband if she can’t even convince her best buds: the women with wildly varied personalities and wildly varied backgrounds in her book club. This book is by turns poignant, heartbreaking, terrifying, and laugh-out-loud hilarious. 

I am a Southern woman, and I have been a part of many a book club full of Southern women. So Hendrix’s book and his spot-on but not stereotypical descriptions of the archetypes of women in these groups is what drew me in, but then, when he brings in vampires – I adore a great vampire book – I was hooked and determined to read through and find out exactly what was going on. Who is to blame? And how do we support – or not support – one another through things we don’t understand? Powerful themes in a captivating… show more.

This is a wonderfully twisted, dark, and eccentric story about bored housewives trying to eliminate a vampire who has moved into their neighbourhood. The narrative is peppered with delicious humour and inherent irony hidden behind sterotypical characters. It is gory and bloodthirsty and witty – just what you need with Halloween around the corner.