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A missed opportunity in a creepy, engaging story

The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix

June 11, 2020 by tiny_bookbot 4 Comments

I admit, I’d let The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires slide off my radar almost as soon as I saw the news of its publication. It looked a lot more True Blood with a dash of Steel Magnolias, and if I’m going to read about vampires these days, I want something real weird like Robin McKinley’s Sunshine, on in a queer revisionist take on Harry Potter, like Rainbow Rowell’s Wayward Son books. (Book 3 needs to hurry up and get here already.) But then a friend of mine mentioned […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Horror, Mystery Tagged With: grady hendrix, horror, Smash the Patriarchy, vampires

tiny_bookbot's CBR12 Review No:13 · Genres: Fiction, Horror, Mystery · Tags: grady hendrix, horror, Smash the Patriarchy, vampires ·
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Perhaps I Am Not the One Who Is Broken

January 30, 2017 by Emperor Cupcake 7 Comments

Warning: The following review contains spoilers and feminist rallying cries I’ve read a handful of historical romance novels, including a weird period in my life where I was briefly into pioneer-era mail-order-bride stories, of which there are a surprising number. (Less surprising, however, than the number of “Earth woman becomes mated to a pair of sexy alien warlords who are sometimes also brothers” stories, which is apparently a genre that exists.) It’s not that I think love stories are inherently bad, or that enjoying them […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: emperorcupcake, Rules of Scoundrels, Sarah Maclean, Smash the Patriarchy

Emperor Cupcake's CBR9 Review No:14 · Genres: Romance · Tags: emperorcupcake, Rules of Scoundrels, Sarah Maclean, Smash the Patriarchy ·
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