[Very minor spoilers ahead]

I kept hearing about this book from people who kept saying they couldn't put it down but also they couldn't blanket recommend because the horror parts are very descriptive, and for me only the latter was true. 

Starting off in the 80s and ending in the 90s, the book follows a group of southern housewives who form a book club and eventually end up having to face a creature that resembles a lot of the serial killers and monsters they love to read so much about.

Based on that, I was expecting this to be some badass women who end up fighting a whole slew of vampires taking over their town, but there's one vampire and the true horror is their relationship to the men in their lives and their mundane housewife lives they choose to define themselves by. 

I hated the characters. The whole lot of them. The only sensible one was Mrs Greene and obviously she is shunned aside and let down by so many because surprisingly the representation of black people in this book is piss poor. It wasn't enough that the majority of victims were all black and poor but it was also somehow vital information that the waiters were all black men, and had to be told every time?

Also the women are so frustrating. You'd think that after being in the book club for years they would have formed some form of bond as women but there is no development in their relationship and it's all quite frustrating. And to add to the above comment about representation, just when it looks like Mrs Greene is the sensible one and the one that gets shit done, we get another of the book clubbers to join after the fact to save the day and eclipse all the achievements. Ah yes, we all love a white saviour narrative. 

I honestly don't have a lot to say about the vampire in question, other than he's not really much worse than the husbands and men in this book and I wish they'd just killed them all at the end to be perfectly honest. 

There is one thing that the book definitely did right at times though. The true horror portions of this book are described incredibly well and actually gave me the creeps and made me put the book down for a second, so hats off to Grady for that bit of success.

But hey it's a fast paced enough read with some redeeming horror moments so go for it if you're after that sort of thing.