by Serena on July 1, 2010
Charlaine Harris‘s Dead to the World is the fourth book in the Sookie Stackhouse southern vampire mystery series, a series that gets better and better. Sookie faces more obstacles in this novel, but mostly because there are new enemies in town — witches — and her brother has disappeared. These witches are stronger than the local Wiccans because they are shifters, possibly Weres, and drink vampire blood, which only makes them stronger.
Harris carefully weaves in the main plot and the subplot, while peppering her prose with ethical and emotional complications. All the while, readers are immersed in backwoods and old world atmosphere of Bon Temps. The dialogue between the characters is full of humor, and readers will enjoy the author’s sense of fun with shape shifters like Debbie Pelt whose names resemble their two-natured state.
Bill, her former boyfriend and intimate vampire, has left town for Peru, leaving her to mull over their past relationship. Wallowing a bit in self pity, Sookie soon finds a a half-naked man by the side of the road, and it is none other than Eric, but he’s not so much the Eric she knows. Their tentative friendship blossoms, but only in a surface kind of way.
Will Sookie find her brother? Will the vampires and the shape-shifters save Bon Temps and Shreveport from the more powerful intruders? You’ll have to read Dead to the World to find out. Looking for a great summer read to kick back in the lounger with, Charlaine Harris is your author.
This is book four out of 10.
This is my 3rd book for the 2010 Vampire Series Challenge.
by Serena on June 11, 2010
Charlaine Harris‘s Club Dead is the third book in the southern vampire series, which I’m reading for the Sookie Stackhouse Reading Challenge and the Vampire Series Reading Challenge that I’m incredibly behind on. In this installment, Sookie’s new boyfriend/vampire Bill has become distant and has informed her that he will be taking a “business” trip to Seattle to complete a project for the Queen of Louisiana. Unfortunately, Sookie soon finds out that after Bill leaves town that her boyfriend’s project places her in the cross hairs of the vampire kingdoms.
“Mama and Daddy died nearly twenty years before vampires had appeared on network television to announce the fact that they were actually present among us, an announcement that had followed on the Japanese development of synthetic blood that actually maintained a vampire’s life without the necessity of drinking from humans.” (Page 4-5)
Thrown into a new mystery that leads her to Mississippi and a whole new set of vampires with their werewolf and were-animal minions, Sookie has to navigate not only her mixed feelings about Bill and his distance from her, but also the inner politics of the vampire kingdoms. Harris does an incredible job of weaving in the Southern charm and manners that many readers enjoy in southern fiction with the darker side of vampires and all things supernatural.
“I have never seen one before, but the word ‘goblin’ popped into my mind as if I had a supernatural dictionary printed on the inside of my eyeballs.” (Page 94)
“‘Bill,’ I said coldly. Something was Up, with a capital U. And it wasn’t Bill’s libido. (Libido had just been on my Word-A-Day calendar.)” (Page 3)
Club Dead will take readers into the exclusive vampire clubs where humans are merely accessories and into the compounds that resemble the cults on television that are raided by the FBI. Looking for a fun, suspenseful summer read, check out Charlaine Harris’s Sookie Stackhouse books.
I purchased my copy of Club Dead.
This is the 3rd book I’ve read for the Sookie Stackhouse Reading Challenge.
This is my 2nd book for the 2010 Vampire Series Challenge.
