This book…. Wow. It was so alive. This is my first Grady
Hendrix novel, and I wasn’t sure what I was getting into, but I am happy to
have read the book, although, it was definitely a like/dislike affair. I will
gush that Grady Hendrix is a true wordsmith. I found myself almost sick to my
stomach with how real he painted simple actions, like describing an elderly
person chewing crumbly food and then drinking water and the crumbs that would
be submerged and, ugh, my stomach still gets queasy, or scenes he throws us
into. So real! I also found myself reacting emotionally to the book, usually in
anger or annoyance, and had to take mini breaks and then come back to dive in
for more. I had to remind myself that this
is classified as horror genre and outside of my usual reading genres.
The story was structured around a book club of women who
love reading true crime novels. This plays into our main gal, Patricia, deducing
what is happening in her town as her true crime riddled mind turns to classic
vampire lore, what to pay attention to, and how to catch a killer? A vampire?!
Gotta love book clubs. I also felt there was an undercurrent of the Salem Witch
Trials theme in the book with how the husbands treated and reacted to the wives
and the trickle out affect of that with other characters and plot. It is an
interesting novel and a wild ride deducing what is happening to these people
and this town. It’s also gruesome. Can Patricia prove there is a vampire in
their suburban community? In the end, I think I like my sexy romance vampires
over the more horror genre of this one.