Book source ~ Purchased at Chirp
(also borrowed hardback from the library)

Patricia Campbell is a former nurse, now stay-at-home wife and mother. She joins a book club with four other women to get out of the house once a month. They read true crime alternating with classics or best sellers. When an elderly neighbor’s great-nephew moves into their community all things change and not for the better. There’s something about James Harris that is funky and when her mother-in-law accuses him of being someone else from the distant past, Patricia writes it off as dementia. But is it?

I cannot express how much I hate this book. These women are supposed to be adults in the 90s. I was in my 20s in the 90s and I didn’t know a single woman who was like them. Not one. Ok, so I grew up in Ohio, not the Deep South, but still! This shit is more what I would expect in the 50s. I gave up on the audio at 69% and got the hardcover from the library so I could quickly skim to finish. The 3 year jump in the middle, what the fuck?! I just can’t. I do appreciate the ending, probably more than I should. It’s the best part of the plot. However, am I the only one to wonder why Patricia didn’t just take all the money out of James Harris’s account? She had her name on it to help him get it set up. It was mentioned and then just forgotten. Like, wut?! So many dumb things in this that I don’t think my eyes will ever recover from their fierce and constant rolling.

I would like to give mad props to the narrator for a great performance. I love all the different voices so it was relatively easy to keep track of everyone. I will be seeking out more books she’s read. ( )

First of all, I have to agreed with other reviewers that the Grady did a good job describing the circumstance of Southern Ladies and their husbands. the assumption made me mad and sad at the same time, but it helps me understand the culture of the south better. It is an interesting story with realistic view, but I am not a big fan of any of the characters in the book. ( )

Se ha convertido en uno de mis libros top. Nos encontramos ante un club de lectura en unos suburbios tĂ­picos americanos, con amas de casa leyendo y comentando libros sobre asesinos en serie. Pero cuando llega una figura nueva al pueblo, se empieza a torcer todo. O es imaginaciĂłn de Patricia?

Hendrix tiene una habilidad para mezclar humor, drama y horror con una facilidad sorprendente. Escenas llenas de gore o insectos justo después de momentos cotidianos en un pueblo sureño. Además consigue crear una historia redonda llena de pequeños guiños noventeros sin caer en la nostalgia barata.

Vamos, que ya tardáis en leer el Club de las Señoras™️ ( )

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. ( )

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. ( )