Some campy vampire fun is here!
Thanks to Minotaur Books for the gifted copy in exchange for my honest review
BLESS YOUR HEART - Lindy Ryan (Released April 9th, 2024)
Book Description:
Rise and shine. The Evans women have some undead to kill.
It's 1999 in Southeast Texas and the Evans women, owners of the only funeral parlor in town, are keeping steady with…normal business. The dead die, you bury them. End of story. That's how Ducey Evans has done it for the last eighty years, and her progeny―Lenore the experimenter and Grace, Lenore's soft-hearted daughter, have run Evans Funeral Parlor for the last fifteen years without drama. Ever since That Godawful Mess that left two bodies in the ground and Grace raising her infant daughter Luna, alone.
But when town gossip Mina Jean Murphy's body is brought in for a regular burial and she rises from the dead instead, it's clear that the Strigoi―the original vampire―are back. And the Evans women are the ones who need to fight back to protect their town.
As more folks in town turn up dead and Deputy Roger Taylor begins asking way too many questions, Ducey, Lenore, Grace, and now Luna, must take up their blades and figure out who is behind the Strigoi's return. As the saying goes, what rises up, must go back down. But as unspoken secrets and revelations spill from the past into the present, the Evans family must face that sometimes, the dead aren't the only things you want to keep buried.
My Thoughts: 4/5 stars
This was exactly what I needed! Did you like Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires? Do you like campy and fun banter? Well, this is the book for you! Vampires can go in so many directions in terms of books or movies - lighthearted, terrifying, darkly comedic, romantic, and many others. This is under the horror and dark comedy umbrella.
In a small Texas town, the Evans women run the only funeral parlor in town. Things are pretty cut and dry and predictable. The bodies come in, and they prepare them for the funeral. All done and simple, right? Well, that is until the town gossip Mina Jean Murphy dies. Her body comes into the parlor, one problem, she isn't dead. When she rises from the dead, the women know that Strigoi is back. Who might that be? The original vampire and while that might be cause for panic, the Evans women know how to handle the undead and kill them for good.
Despite this being a little slower paced, it was so much fun. I loved the multiple POVs, and I'm really hoping that this is the start of a series because I need more of the vampire slaying Evans!
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