Kat

I know it's not for everyone but I still like King's writing style. I enjoyed this immensely! It has exactly the right pace for me. Not too slow and did not in the slightest feel dragged out.

I heard a lot of people complain they didn't like the character of Hodges but for the typical bored, unable to function without his job, retired cop he was very likeable to me.

Also many people complain about King's portrayal of Jerome and Holly and maybe I'm as oldschool as King but I couldn't see it. 🤷🏻‍♀️

So yeah liking this a bunch and definitely wanna continue the series!

I know it's not for everyone but I still like King's writing style. I enjoyed this immensely (more like 4.5 stars)! It has exactly the right pace for me. Not too slow and did not in the slightest feel dragged out.

I heard a lot of people complain they didn't like the character of Hodges but for the typical bored, unable to function without his job, retired cop he was very likeable to me.

Also many people complain about King's portrayal of Jerome and Holly and maybe I'm as oldschool as King but I couldn't see it. 🤷🏻‍♀️

So yeah liking this a bunch and definitely wanna continue the series!

Hm... don't know... I've never been the graphic novel kinda person but I thought I'd give Manga a try anyway since I saw this at our local library and had heard people rave about this one... So yeah I think I'm not really the Manga reader either. The good (and bad) thing is you're done with a whole volume in about 15 minutes. But yeah it also feels like the story didn't even start when it's ended already. So I think it's hard to rate just one Manga book in a series cause you can't read this as a standalone. Maybe if the library has more volumes I will check out a few more if the story picks up. On the other hand maybe not... 🤷🏻‍♀️

I think I have enough of post-war-crime-novels (1st and 2nd WW) for the time being! Might have had a bit of an overload there this year... 😜

4.5 - 4.75 stars.

This was everything I expected it to be. I love everyone from the Thursday murder club so dearly! Their dynamic is just perfect. Just had a very good time reading this.

Hm... don't know... I've never been the graphic novel kinda person but I thought I'd give Manga a try anyway since I saw this at our local library and had heard people rave about this one... So yeah I think I'm not really the Manga reader either. The good (and bad) thing is you're done with a whole volume in about 15 minutes. But yeah it also feels like the story didn't even start when it's ended already. So I think it's hard to rate just one Manga book in a series cause you can't read this as a standalone. Maybe if the library has more volumes I will check out a few more if the story picks up. On the other hand maybe not... 🤷🏻‍♀️

So I finished this book last night and boy... was I disappointed!

I was so sure, I was gonna love this book! Everyone else seemed to do so. But all it did was making me feel terribly disappointed and annoyed.

Maybe I wasn't the target audience, maybe I didn't get it, but this book made me so angry and when it didn't make me angry it was kinda blah. (The gore was okay - I really don't mind me some gore! - but all in all too sparce for it to be really horrifying)

I was expecting a group of female friends kicking ass not a group of female punching bags who are kinda known to each other.

Possible spoilers ahead so be warned!

Firstly I really didn't like Patricia. And it's never good when you don't have some sort of sympathy with the main character (at least so far I often struggled with that) or really any of the other characters for that matter. She was just so annoyingly weak. I really am noone who is looking for confrontation but even I wouldn't let myself being treated that shittyly!

Also the strong female friendship everyone raves about felt more like a bunch of acquaintances to me. All of them were more interested in pleasing their shitty husbands than in helping their so called friends. Were wifes really that obidient in the 90s in the American south? I grew up during that time (I should've been around Korey's age) but my Dad was a stay-at-home Dad which wasn't normal in the German south either and not planned at all but even if my Dad had been the breadwinner of the house I can't imagine him treating my Mum like any of those shitbags did! Maybe we were too poor for that to be the case. 🤷🏻‍♀️

And don't even get me started on the "slaying vampires" part. There only ever was one "vampire" and not even a very vampirey one though that wouldn't have been the problem. And the slaying doesn't start until maybe 20 pages before the end and let's just say it's a mess... (what kind of choice was it to doll up your main character and letting her be passed out during the gand finale?)

I can't say much about the blatant racism I felt in every aspect of the book, being a white European myself. But let's just say that I would have preferred Mrs Greene (we never even learned her first name or did I miss that?) to be our main protagonist. Maybe than I would've been able to care. After all she was the hero in the end in my eyes!

So did I not get the satire or deeper meaning? Maybe. But I would argue about this being satirical in any way.

This was my first Grady Hendrix book and I'm really weary about reading another one now. There were quite a few that seemed worth checking out but out of all of those this one felt like the easiest hit for me... 🙈

So I finished this book last night and boy... was I disappointed!

I was so sure, I was gonna love this book! Everyone else seemed to do so. But all it did was making me feel terribly disappointed and annoyed.

Maybe I wasn't the target audience, maybe I didn't get it, but this book made me so angry and when it didn't make me angry it was kinda blah. (The gore was okay - I really don't mind me some gore! - but all in all too sparce for it to be really horrifying)

I was expecting a group of female friends kicking ass not a group of female punching bags who are kinda known to each other.

Possible spoilers ahead so be warned!

Firstly I really didn't like Patricia. And it's never good when you don't have some sort of sympathy with the main character (at least so far I often struggled with that) or really any of the other characters for that matter. She was just so annoyingly weak. I really am noone who is looking for confrontation but even I wouldn't let myself being treated that shittyly!

Also the strong female friendship everyone raves about felt more like a bunch of acquaintances to me. All of them were more interested in pleasing their shitty husbands than in helping their so called friends. Were wifes really that obidient in the 90s in the American south? I grew up during that time (I should've been around Korey's age) but my Dad was a stay-at-home Dad which wasn't normal in the German south either and not planned at all but even if my Dad had been the breadwinner of the house I can't imagine him treating my Mum like any of those shitbags did! Maybe we were too poor for that to be the case. 🤷🏻‍♀️

And don't even get me started on the "slaying vampires" part. There only ever was one "vampire" and not even a very vampirey one though that wouldn't have been the problem. And the slaying doesn't start until maybe 20 pages before the end and let's just say it's a mess... (what kind of choice was it to doll up your main character and letting her be passed out during the gand finale?)

I can't say much about the blatant racism I felt in every aspect of the book, being a white European myself. But let's just say that I would have preferred Mrs Greene (we never even learned her first name or did I miss that?) to be our main protagonist. Maybe than I would've been able to care. After all she was the hero in the end in my eyes!

So did I not get the satire or deeper meaning? Maybe. But I would argue about this being satirical in any way.

This was my first Grady Hendrix book and I'm really weary about reading another one now. There were quite a few that seemed worth checking out but out of all of those this one felt like the easiest hit for me... 🙈

I thought this was going to be a fun, scary read. But for the last few chapters I was just getting terribly frustrated. Could someone please kill all those husbands? When the phrase "group hysteria" I wanted to go berserk! I hope this changes again. I liked the beginning of the book well enough.