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Verk av Grady Hendrix

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Födelsedag
1972
Kön
male
Nationalitet
USA
Bostadsorter
New York, New York, USA
Relationer
Cohen, Amanda (spouse)

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This is the second book I have read by this author that was recommended to me as being hilarious. Apparently I have a different definition of hilarious. This book had no characters that I liked at all. The men are misogynistic creeps, the women too stupid to live, the children horrible. I did read the entire book just to see what they could screw up next. If you are not a fan of gore, skip this one.
 
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corliss12000 | 129 andra recensioner | Mar 16, 2024 |
A group of Charleston, South Carolina housewives are about to get more than they ever bargained for. Patricia Campbell’s life has so far been fairly normal other than her habit of just showing up to the book club meeting. She seldom reads any of the book, but she likes the members and the gossip. She says that It’s hard to get any reading done between raising her two kids, Blue and Korey...picking up after her husband, Carter, and taking care of her live-in mother-in-law, "Miss Mary", who seems to have dementia. It doesn’t help that the books chosen by the Literary Guild of Mt. Pleasant are just plain over the hill.... boring, with a capital "B". Then Kitty, another book club member, gives Patricia a gloriously, sexy, trashy true-crime novel and Patricia changes her tune and is instantly and completely hooked. Soon she’s attending a very different kind of book club meeting with Kitty and her friends Grace, Slick, and Maryellen. Never mind what is piling up at home! Patricia loves her new friends but still wants a bit more excitement in her life. "Be careful what you wish for, Patricia". Her wish is granted when James Harris moves in on her street. The women are all intrigued. Who is this handsome "night owl", and why does Miss Mary keep insisting that she knows him from somewhere in her youth? Impossible...since that would make James over 100 years old!! A series of horrific events begin to occur that rattles Patricia’s nerves almost to the breaking point. Among these horrid events is a scene involving a large horde of rats. She just knows that James is up to no good...there's something "so wrong about him"...but nobody believes her. After all, she’s ONLY a housewife, but Patricia knows to the bottom of her Southern soul that evil personified has bought a house and set down roots in her neighborhood. The character of Patricia grows from someone who apologizes for apologizing to a fiercely brave woman determined to do the right thing...hopefully with the help of her friends. Grady Hendrix does a magnificent job of working well-established vampire lore into a really fantastic story. Here he has shown that he’s a master at conjuring heady 1990s nostalgia. The result is that this just might be his best book yet. Horror fans will certainly enjoy it.… (mer)
 
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Carol420 | 129 andra recensioner | Mar 6, 2024 |
"I love you," Abby shouted into the storm. "I love you, Gretchen Lang. You are my reflection and my shadow and I will not let you go. We are bound together forever and ever! Until Halley's Comet comes around again. I love you dearly and I love you queerly and no demon is bigger than this! I throw my pebble and its name is Gretchen Lang and in the name of our love, BEGONE!!!"
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bisexuality | 112 andra recensioner | Mar 3, 2024 |
Series Info/Source: This is a stand alone book. I borrowed a copy of this on ebook from my library.

Thoughts: I did find this curious enough to finish but didn't enjoy it as much as I had hoped to. Previous to reading this book I had read Hendrix's "Horrostor" which I found incredibly amusing and his "The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires" which I didn't enjoy as much. This book was okay.

Louise finds out her parents have died and is forced to leave her young daughter with her ex while she goes back to Charleston to deal with it. She arrives to find her deadbeat brother, Mark, trying to clear out the whole house and sell it without her involvement. That is when she finds out she inherited all her mother's art in the house, her mother the puppeteer whose art litters every corner of the house and she finds out the house might just be very haunted.

This is mainly a horror book, although it also delves into family issues of Mark and Louise trying to find some common ground together. If you are creeped out by dolls/puppets I wouldn't recommend it. A big portion of this book is about evil/possessed dolls and puppets. I in particular do not like dolls and puppets (I had a mom that collected dolls and it always freaked me out), so I almost stopped reading this on a number of occasions.

The story wanders quite a bit. We move from Loiuse's present back to events in her past. Then about halfway through the book we start hearing from her brother as well. The whole thing feels a bit disorganized. Then things gets a bit goofy as theories about how loving something makes it sentient are presented to the reader, The Velveteen Rabbit is referenced multiple times.

Like with "The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires" I found some of this darkly funny but also thought some of it was just out-right unpleasant and didn't enjoy all the meanness in here. A lot of the story feels very contrived as well. Things did wrap up okay though.

My Summary (3/5): Overall this was okay, I finished it. I liked watching Mark and Louise find some common ground as siblings. I did not enjoy the creepy haunted puppets and thought the explanation behind their existence felt pretty far-fetched. I don't really know why I keep picking up books by Grady, they are always just so-so. I guess I always find the premise intriguing but in the future I will probably steer clear.
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krau0098 | 49 andra recensioner | Feb 29, 2024 |

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Medlemmar
12,304
Popularitet
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Betyg
3.8
Recensioner
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ISBN
143
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