{"id":1995,"date":"2020-05-16T10:52:20","date_gmt":"2020-05-16T15:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/?p=1995"},"modified":"2026-04-19T17:04:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T22:04:43","slug":"book-review-the-southern-book-clubs-guide-to-slaying-vampires-by-grady-hendrix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/?p=1995","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: The Southern Book Club&#8217;s Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a style=\"float: left; padding-right: 20px;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/44074800-the-southern-book-club-s-guide-to-slaying-vampires\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.gr-assets.com\/images\/S\/compressed.photo.goodreads.com\/books\/1584222716l\/44074800._SX98_.jpg\" alt=\"The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/44074800-the-southern-book-club-s-guide-to-slaying-vampires\">The Southern Book Club&#8217;s Guide to Slaying Vampires<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/4826394.Grady_Hendrix\">Grady Hendrix<\/a><br \/>\nMy rating: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/3175574097\">5 of 5 stars<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hendrix takes the concept of &#8220;humans are the monsters&#8221; further in this book. The majority of the horror isn&#8217;t outright violence or hostility, but that of mistrust, fear, apathy, and a genuine inability of some to value the opinions of others, especially if those opinions are counter to our belief, or present us with an uncomfortable or inconvenient truth. So, while a vampire tale, and therefore there&#8217;s truly a monster involved, the greatest monstrosity for the characters is the indifference we can all feel towards another&#8217;s value and knowledge. Very well done.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/list\/22289291-devin-poore\">View all my reviews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Southern Book Club&#8217;s Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix My rating: 5 of 5 stars Hendrix takes the concept of &#8220;humans are the monsters&#8221; further in this book. The majority of the horror isn&#8217;t outright violence or hostility, but that of mistrust, fear, apathy, and a genuine inability of some to value the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-review"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pha1lg-wb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1995"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10767,"href":"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1995\/revisions\/10767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}