The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires

3.5
Great writing, I cringed and tensed up when I was supposed to.
If this was set in the 1950s (because that's what it felt like and not the 90s) then I would say it felt very realistic like I could picture this actually happening and the characters acting they way they did, if I suspended my disbelief that vampires existed. This had a lot more serious topics then I expected, it brought issues of class, race, sexual assault, child abuse and domestic abuse. There was even gas lighting.
The women were there for each other when it came to “normal” matters like arranging care for an elderly parent but when it came to the supernatural aspect of the book it took much longer then I liked for everyone to ban together. Based off the title of the book and the premise I thought there was going to be more of group of friends taking on this evil entity but that really didn't happen until the end of the book and it was mostly the main character having to handle things on her own.