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Summary: 2nd of the series & just keeps getting better!
Review: Wow! It just keeps getting better! Author Charlaine Harris creates a very believable alternate world where vampires and other 'supes' try to co-mingle with humans! Synthetic blood drinks, special vampire travel & accomodations, right-wing anti-vampire groups; it all just seems so plausible!Sookie and Bill's excellent supernatural adventures continue with fascinating new characters. I just wish her books were longer!
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Summary: Equal to Dead Until Dark!
Review: Sookie Stackhouse, the telepathic waitress, is back. Her relationship with Bill the vampire is blossoming. Sam, her boss at the bar, is a shape-shifter that's hot for her. She still works at the bar, but she also works for the vampires from time to time. Life isn't normal. But life is good. Then a coworker turns up murdered. This is after he told Sookie about a sex party he had been to the night before. Soon after, a supernatural creature called a maenad attacks her, giving her a painful and poisonous lashing. The vampires save her by sucking the poison from her veins and enjoying every minute of it. But now she owes them for saving her, so in return she travels to Dallas with Bill to search for a missing vampire named Farrell. Her investigation leads her to a group called THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE SUN. They have a "dawn service" planned for the missing vampire. She and Bill must work quickly to save Farrell, before he is forced to meet the sun. And if she survives this ordeal, she must still return home and solve the mystery of the sex party and murder of her friend. Even worse, the maenad is still on the loose, as well.
This is the second novel in this southern vampire series. I just finished it, and I'm already itching to read the third installment. Harris has hit on the most original idea that I've come across in a long time-vampires living legal after centuries of being underground. But she doesn't stop there. She flavors her work with quirky small-town characters and shape-shifters, as well as other supernatural beings. Then she rolls it all into a first-rate mystery. Actually there are two mysteries-where is the missing vampire and who murdered her coworker. Don't miss out on reading this one.
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Summary: The mystery series continues...
Review: Sookie Stackhouse had been minding her own business, but Bad Luck found her. First one of her co-workers was murdered and no one else seemed to care. Then a beastly creature, called a maenad, gave Sookie's back a painful lashing laced with poison. A few vampires (Bill and Eric included) sucked the poison from her veins to save her. So when the vampires wanted Sookie to help them out with her special telepathic abilities, she agreed. Bill and Sookie were sent to Dallas to help locate a missing vampire. A large religious group called "The Fellowship Of The Sun" was up to its neck in the mess. One slip by Sookie and the massacre would be awful. **** This novel picks up close to where the first left off. This book, just like the previous one, is a mystery story that can stand by itself. Yu do not have to read the first to fully understand what is going on. The secondary characters from the first book are in this one too, however, more time is spent on the mystery. Very good reading here. ****
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Summary: This is when the Whinning started.
Review: I wrote my review for "Club Dead", however, this is where the whinny starts. Sookie was strong and brave in book one, not that she's not in this book, but, if you doing someting bad and you doing it against a vampire, then you deserve death, sorry just my feeling. In book one Sookie meets a vampire, something she's been wanting to do when they(the vampires)began to mainstream. So she meets him, fall into sex, not love, trust me, it's all about the sex and the way he treats her which is excellent for a dead man. I know some men who are breathing and they don't treat you like Wonderful Bill,(that's his name). Well sookie and Bill go off to Dallas for a very interesting adventure. You read the rest. Oh and Eric, Eric is funny and beautiful. Think of Lestat, as a comedian and that's Eric.
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Summary: Sookie goes on an adventure....
Review: Book two of the adventures of Sookie Stackhouse and her vampire boyfriend Bill takes her to Dallas, paying back a favor for the regional vampire "boss" Eric. Dallas is missing a vampire and needs Sookie's telepathic abilities to check the humans who might know something. Meanwhile, back at home, there's murder afoot, rumors of orgies, and a mythological beastie loose in the nearby woods, expecting tribute from the local vampires. Dallas gives Sookie a look at big city vampiric life, quite different from her much smaller home town area. Harris balances both locations quite ably, giving the reader a fast fun read. As Sookie's involvement in the vampire world increases, she begins to have misgivings about the whole situation, while her affair with Bill continues to deepen. The threads of the local murder, the beastie, and the orgies combine together nicely, with vampires combining forces with humans unexpectedly. And most importantly, these southern people are still the most interesting parts of this new series. I'd say more, but I don't want to give everything away. Go read Dead Until Dark and then pick this one up.
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Summary: Great book but waiting for the other shoe to drop.....
Review: This is a great mystery novel, I love Ms. Harris's style of writing and she has a great talent for creating a beautiful romance. However, after reading the Aurora Teagarden mysteries and being tramatized by Martin's tragic end, I can only wonder at how long Bill has before he's killed off as well. I had to read the end first to make sure he was still there before I would even read the book. I highly recommend the book but, I've lost some faith in Ms. Harris and it's hard to relax and enjoy the book when you keep wondering if another main character is going to die.
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Summary: Funny, Sexy and Very Entertaining!
Review: Sookie Stackhouse is a waitress, she's pretty and people think she's crazy. She's also telepathic and her boyfriend happens to be a vampire named Bill. Of course, being involved with a vampire comes with its share of problems. A big one being having to deal with vampire politics. Once she helped the leader of the vampire nest in Shreveport find out who was embezzling funds from him, she'd outed herself and became incredibly useful at the same time. Of course, Sookie's "gift" makes her very attractive to other vampires and she and Bill have found a way to protect themselves from those other vampires by hiring out her special skills to other "regions" of vampires. On top of having to travel to Dallas to help another vampire nest, a friend and co-worker ends up murdered in the parking lot of the bar she waitresses in. In between there's an attack by an ancient nature nymph, a sex party, rabid anti vampire right wingers who want to tie her to a vampire forced to "meet the dawn," kidnapping, an attempted kidnapping and several instances of being groped by Bill's "boss" Eric. All of this happens with a great deal of tongue in cheek writing, it's all quite ludicrous but at the same time, the characters are all very likeable and the story seems to work in a very quirky but southern way that Harris works to her advantage. It's different from Hamilton's Anita Blake series because of the quirky silly vibe and as such, I disagree with some of the other reviews that this is a copy. Sure, it has vampires and shapeshifters but other than that, the comparison really ends there. Both are very enjoyable series and very well written but they are also very different. Harris hasn't cribbed anyone's notes here, this book, as well as Dead Until Dark stands on its own and does so quite ably.
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Summary: Bring on more dessert!
Review: After devouring Dead Until Dark, I started in on Living Dead in Dallas and again couldn't put this book down. Totally FUN reading. Starting off my summer vacation with this series was the best thing I could do for a quick way to start relaxing. I don't usually read books about vampires but now, I may reconsider! A welcome addition to my dessert table of literature.
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Summary: JUST DEAD
Review: I DIDN'T LIKE THE STORY FROM BEGINNIG TO END.
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Summary: Harris does it again!
Review: Once again, Harris makes a wonderful tale come to life. First Sookie wants to meet a vampire, then she's up to her ears in vampires. The vampires find Sookies particular disability (hearing minds) to be very useful. Add in a mysterious dead body, a maenad and a missing vampire, and you have quite a mystery to solve. I highly recommend this book for a fun relaxing summer read. Harris writes in a style that is much more entertaining that LK Hamilton. Where Anita Blake is experienced in the occult, Sookie is still learning as she goes.
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