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 blood-sucking fiend.
Patricia Campbell had always planned for a big life, but after giving up her career as a nurse to marry an ambitious doctor and become a mother, Patricia's life has never felt smaller. The days are long, her kids are ungrateful, her husband is distant, and her to-do list is never really done. The one thing she has to look forward to is her book club, a group of Charleston mothers united only by their love for true-crime and suspenseful fiction. In these meetings, they're more likely to discuss the FBI's recent siege of Waco as much as the ups and downs of marriage and motherhood.
But when an artistic and sensitive stranger moves into the neighborhood, the book club's meetings turn into speculation about the newcomer. Patricia is initially attracted to him, but when some local children go missing, she starts to suspect the newcomer is involved. She begins her own investigation, assuming that he's a Jeffrey Dahmer or Ted Bundy. What she uncovers is far more terrifying, and soon she--and her book club--are the only people standing between the monster they've invited into their homes and their unsuspecting community.
My Review:
This book was really fantastic. It was a great look at what it was like for housewives in the 90's, on the verge of society changing to what it's like right now, with less pressure for women to get married. Well, that's what it looks like to me. And it's weird, because I was born in the 90's.
This book is told in two parts, one where things are going on, and then 3 years later. I really enjoyed the first part, Patricia is discontent with her life, though her true crime/mystery book club is a highlight in her life. And then James comes to town, and bad things start to happen. And said book club is a great way to be paranoid of anything suspicious!
The second part was a bit hard to read, because life-and the situation with James, really beat her down, and she was just going through life on autopilot. I mean, she was right, and just because the husbands were friends with James, that they were worried about their reputation, well, it was really frustrating! I was like, get a divorce, don't live like that! So glad that worked out!
Yeah, the thing about these ladies, is that there isn't some magical super power that helped them win the day. They were lucky, they were smart, but it could've gone really wrong, very easily. But it worked out, though it sucks about the one character, I thoroughly enjoyed this book!
I really enjoyed this book, and I'm going to have to read My Best Friend's Exorcism!
Author: Grady Hendrix
Read: July 6th, 2020
Source: Ebook.bike
Reason Why: Sounded really great, and it's a SAC 2020 Book!
Publisher: Quirk Books
Published: April 7th 2020
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