The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires
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The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires
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Narrated by:
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Bahni Turpin
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By:
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Grady Hendrix
About this listen
Fried Green Tomatoes and Steel Magnolias meet Dracula in this Southern-flavored supernatural thriller set in the '90s about a women's book club that must protect its suburban community from a mysterious and handsome stranger who turns out to be a real monster.
Patricia Campbell's life has never felt smaller. Her ambitious husband is too busy to give her a goodbye kiss in the morning, her kids have their own lives, her senile mother-in-law needs constant care, and she's always a step behind on thank-you notes and her endless list of chores. The one thing she has to look forward to is her book club, a close-knit group of Charleston women united by their love of true crime and paperback fiction. At these meetings they're as likely to talk about the Manson family as they are marriage, motherhood, and neighborhood gossip.
This predictable pattern is upended when Patricia meets James Harris, a handsome stranger who moves into the neighborhood to take care of his elderly aunt and ends up joining the book club. James is sensitive and well-read, and he makes Patricia feel things she hasn't felt in 20 years. But there's something off about him. He doesn't have a bank account, he doesn't like going out during the day, and Patricia's mother-in-law insists that she knew him when she was a girl, an impossibility.
When local children go missing, Patricia and the book club members start to suspect James is more of a Bundy than a Beatnik, but no one outside of the book club believes them. Have they read too many true crime books, or have they invited a real monster into their homes?
©2020 Grady Hendrix (P)2020 Blackstone PublishingWhat listeners say about The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires
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- Carolyn Sunderland
- 02-07-2024
Started slow but hooked me in✅✅
I enjoyed the development of characters and different plot lines. I enjoyed the eventual solidarity of the women and found it hard to remember that the beliefs and treatment of the women by the men was the way many societies expected men to treat women-like accessories rather than partners .This added another layer to the overall story.
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- Micah Cargill
- 15-05-2022
perfect Spring cleaning soundtrack!
a little slow in the first quarter but builds to a thoroughly satisfying conclusion. A love letter to the strength and the weaknesses of the women who raise us. Also spooky sexual Vampire horror!
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- Anonymous User
- 27-09-2022
vampire!
great story telling! funny and heartbreak all at once. but a little predictable. would still recommend to fans of Vampire stories.
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- Henrietta Podgorska
- 15-10-2023
Great book and outstanding narration
This book is quite something. It wasn't an easy read, and not just because of the vampire. What struck me the most about this book is its powerful message that the real monsters in the world are the men who push women down and enable evil to lurk due to their stupidity and arrogance. Men are not protectors, they are users. I believe that the vampire isn't the worst character in this book.
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- Shan
- 10-11-2023
FANG-tastic ... sorry haha
it was grate! I loved it! definitely would recommend this book. the character's where enjoyable and the narrator did a wonderful job
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- Jessasaur
- 05-05-2024
an unexpected vampire story
I have read quite a few vampire books and thought this may be similar but I was mistaken. A really great read with scenes that I will remember for a long time to come.
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- tanya
- 22-10-2024
Refreshing take on vampires and housewives
Loved this book so much, it’s so descriptive (sometimes to descriptive), I love the different character voices the narrator chose.
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- Chris Radge
- 12-12-2021
Fresh, new story telling.
I loved the voice of the writer and the narrator. I found myself laughing all the way through the story. I related, as a mother, to the beginning of the book but as a female found myself quite angry at the mother characters and almost didn’t finish the book. My advice, keep going, it’s worth waiting for the ending.
The tie up was amazing. I think an explanation of the rats might of been nice as well, I can guess at the reason, but to tie it up would of been great. I also think the author forgot about a certain bank account she was co-signer for, a missed opportunity.
Well worth a listen.
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- Anonymous User
- 13-02-2022
Stupefied!
I could not stop listening to this book. It is addictive, tantalising and deliciously dark. Masterfully written and wonderfully narrated. Do not miss this!
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- Anonymous User
- 12-05-2022
Delectable
A must read. Really well narrated. I couldn't stop listening! I was sad when it was over.
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