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424
May 2021
Paperback
Quirk Books
9781683692515
"This funny and fresh take on a classic tale manages to comment on gender roles, racial disparities, and white privilege all while creeping me all the way out. So good."--Zakiya Dalila Harris, author of The Other Black Girl
Patricia Campbell's life has never felt smaller. Her husband is a workaholic, her teenage kids have their own lives, her senile mother-in-law needs constant care, and she's always a step behind on her endless to-do list. The only thing keeping her sane is her book club, a close-knit group of Charleston women united by their love of true crime. At these meetings they're as likely to talk about the Manson family as they are about their own families.
One evening after book club, Patricia is viciously attacked by an elderly neighbor, bringing the neighbor's handsome nephew, James Harris, into her life. James is well traveled and well read, and he makes Patricia feel things she hasn't felt in years. But when children on the other side of town go missing, their deaths written off by local police, Patricia has reason to believe James Harris is more of a Bundy than a Brad Pitt. The real problem? James is a monster of a different kind--and Patricia has already invited him in.
Little by little, James will insinuate himself into Patricia's life and try to take everything she took for granted--including the book club--but she won't surrender without a fight in this blood-soaked tale of neighborly kindness gone wrong.
Ever feel like a book was written just for you? This is a feminist vampire story with a silly name set in the 90s…I’m gonna go out on a limb and assume Grady Hendrix is a fellow Buffy the Vampire Slayer fan. I was sold on the title alone, but when it was described as “Steel Magnolias meets Dracula”, I couldn’t get to the checkout fast enough! The plot is in the title. Basically, a group of Southern housewives take on a bloodsucking fiend. When local children start disappearing, Patricia suspects their dangerous new neighbour James. Luckily, she’s learned a thing or two about monsters from her true-crime-loving book club and she’s a total badass. As heartfelt as it is gruesome.
Daniel, Unity Books auckland
