Tell me about how you decided to approach race in this story — because we're following a group of white women, but they're relatively insulated from the actual horrors going on. Relatively, anyhow.

He thinks we’re what we look like on the outside: nice Southern ladies. Let me tell you something…there’s nothing nice about Southern ladies.” Face of an Angel, Mind of a Demon: James Harris is a handsome, charming seemingly young all-American man whose good looks and charisma hide the fact he's a sadistic vampire who savours killing. I was so thrown by the way the plot went too. I never knew what was going to happen next and I was LIVING ,for that. The southern book club's guide to slaying vampires, 2020, ISBN 978-1-0941-3695-0, OCLC 1147251774 , retrieved 2020-07-11Blood Bath: Played with. James is a vampire, but his actual blood bath comes up when the book club, and Mrs Green, get him into the bathtub and chop him up, meaning that he doesn't get into it or choose to soak into it, but he ends up there through circumstances.

The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires is funny and warm and genuinely creepy and disturbing. Grady re-created a time and place without the dangerous, distortive lens of nostalgia.” — Paul Tremblay , author of Survivor Song So anyway, I didn't like this book. I'm in the minority, so maybe there really is something here I missed... or maybe that pervasive sense of complacency is more powerful that I had imagined. Patricia Campbell remembers what life was like before she gave into motherhood - she was an amazing nurse and strong-willed.Set in the 1990's in a small community in the South, where the pace is slow and the 1990's are reminiscent of the 1950's. Were families really like this in the 90's? Oh, wait! This is fiction and horror, right? Never mind! Despite the small-town charm and close-knit ties in Mt. Pleasant, Patricia finds her confidence broken again and again by people she trusts. How is her trust betrayed, both inside her social circle and beyond her community? Obnoxious In-Laws: Patricia's brothers-in-law and her husband were supposed to take turns watching the senile Miss Mary, but when Caleb takes the first visit, they refuse to take her, meaning Patricia has to take care of her full time, and her senility makes her very rude and difficult to deal with. Later subverted with Miss Mary, who gives Patricia a warning from beyond the grave and watches over her after they finally defeat James. Patricia is the one person who remains suspicious of her handsome new neighbor despite his friendly and charming exterior. Why do you think she, out of all James Harris’s new friends in their quiet neighborhood, is more prone to considering the possibility of a menace in their midst? The title - misleading. The book is about one vampire and the Southern Book Club doesn't band together to fight him until 85% of the book is finished. it's not a witty book about southern women fighting vampires at all.