5.0
adventurous dark funny fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes

I'm not sure if this is a 5⭐ read but it really was a perfect read that seems to be so familiar and so new at the same time. 

This is a book about my gen x pop culture world.  I know all the references.  It reads like an old Stephen King book.  We are the last generation with friends named Patricia.   The women in the novel are a bit older than my cohort but I do not doubt this book is written for us about us. 

On one hand there is this steel magnolia sisterhood within a cheesy vampire horror novel.  Very VC Andrews although with less incest.  

Underneath is a story of women.  The silencing, the belittling, the humiliation.  Ridiculing them for their choice of books.   The invisible women of colour.  The shame of open secrets.  

It's a feel good story but also a sad story because no matter how much has really  changed?