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Mar 13, 2010

Shannon rated it:

Another wonderful Sookie Stackhouse outing, fast-paced and never flagging. This one sees Sookie and Bill sent by Eric to Dallas because he's "rented" her out to the nest leader there, Stan, so she can use her telepathic gift to find out what happened to a missing vampire. This leads to the Fellowship, a truly scary psuedo-Christian cult that's very anti-vampire. There's also a scary Maenad hanging around the woods at home, demanding tribute, and poor Lafayette, the flamboyantly gay coo More...

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Dec 04, 2008

Beth F. rated it:

Vampire Bill is a dud.

But otherwise I really enjoyed this book, it was better than the first. I was dying laughing during most of the orgy scene...who knew Eric was so funny?

Perfect vacation reading. Added bonus, I read this on the plane last night from Minneapolis to the Dallas/Fort Worth airport. Very appropriate. :)

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Jul 21, 2011

Buggy rated it:

Opening Line: Andy Bellefleur was drunk as a skunk."

This was another super entertaining read; combining fantasy, action, romance and mystery that you’ll find difficult to put down. With book #2 we return to small town Louisiana and telepathic waitress Sookie Stackhouse, who's still slinging beers for shapeshifter Sam and spending time with boyfriend Bill the vampire. Their relationship continues to evolve with anger and jealousies surfacing here, and even though for the most par More...

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Apr 08, 2011

Jim rated it:

It was a fast, engaging read. Different, in details, from the series, but the feel is the same. It's an interesting world that Harris has created. She brings up some well thought out points about how a vampire would differ from a normal human. It's certainly not high literature, but an awful lot of fun.

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Jul 11, 2010

Jasmin rated it:

It was extremely hard thinking of Eric Northman, 6'4", blonde with blue eyes, need I mention a super gorgeous hunk, a vampire, and Sheriff of Louisiana Area 5, an entrepreneur (owner of bar Fangtasia) in a PINK LYCRA especially when I pictured him as Alexander Skarsgård who looks like this

But imagining the bulge his would form, Eric Northman in a pink lycra doesn't seem like a bad idea. I think I'm pro pink lycras. Especially if someone this hot would wear them. I even think I More...

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Mar 13, 2010

Elizabeth rated it:

Sookie is still getting her fashion advice from the mannequins at Wal*Mart, and the author is still describing it in loving detail. Now she's discovered real lingerie so we must have a description of her thongs as well. I can't quite tell if Harris wants to be Sookie or fuck her.

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Feb 01, 2012

Amanda rated it:

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Mar 13, 2010

Heather rated it:

Perseverance pays off, especially when reading this series. After I completed Dead Until Dark, I was hesitant to continue on with the second installment. However, I had made a promise to a friend to stick it out, and I had already purchased the book, so I got comfortable and braced myself for the impending doom. At first, my fears were realized. Sookie was still dingy, annoying, and cried at least four times in the first 30 pages. My outlook was grim, but I prevailed on in hopes that the smal More...

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Apr 20, 2010

Fani rated it:

I managed to actually bloody myself (!) by biting the inside of my cheek to keep from laughing out loud when listening to this one while I was at work:) This was much funnier than the first one and IMO less romantic oriented. However, I absolutely enjoyed it and had a hard time keeping my giggles quiet every time Eric showed up. The lines he and Sookie exchanged cracked me up big time. I just love those books and I don't think I'll stop until I've read everyone of them.

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Sep 28, 2008

Amanda rated it:

This is a great read!!! Book #2 of the Sookie Stackhouse series is light years better than book #1 (see Dead Until Dark). Having already laid the groundwork in book 1, author Harris is able to pick up where she left off. The result is a fast-paced, suspenseful, action-packed plot sending Sookie to Dallas and smack-dab in the middle of (another) vampireunderworld where she's their best hope for finding one of their own and defeating an extremist religious cult trying to annihilate them. Some More...

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Jun 03, 2011

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(this is the second book in the Southern Vampire Mysteries series. beware of spoilers for the first book, Dead Until Dark)

in a sentence or so: Sookie is back in action. between a dead body in the backseat of the local police officer's car in the parking lot of her bar, a maenad reeking havoc, and being sent out to find missing vampires in Dallas, she's a pretty busy telepathic barmaid.

Sookie, the local telepathic barmaid in Bon Temps, Louisiana, is dating Bill, a vampire. whe More...

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Mar 13, 2010

Inara rated it:

Title in German:
Untot in Dallas

This is the second very entertaining adventure of Sookie Stackhouse and her vampire boyfriend Bill. This time Sookie ends up in Dallas to find a missing vampire. Hardly arrived she is at once right in the middle of the events and meets vampires, shapeshifters, an other telepath and has to put up a fierce struggle at not being captured by the ominous "Fellowship of the Sun" an anti-vampire club. A second plot is the murder of Sookies coll More...

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Feb 22, 2009

JuliAnna rated it:

This is not a great work of literature nor even a good fantasy novel; it is an entertaining paranormal romance novel. If you are up for a romance novel with supernatural creatures, this is a good bet. If you were only lukewarm on the first novel in the series, you should still give this one a try. If you like a little substance with your romance, I would stay away from these books.

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Jan 25, 2009

Cathy rated it:

It was good. I like that Sookie isn't blasé about having a vampire boyfriend and the problems and occasional horrors that go with it. She's just trying to make the best of her situation, just like the rest of us; only her situation involves telepathy, supernatural creatures, murder and mayhem. Therefore the drama. Bill is still a bit boring to me, not as interesting as Sam or Eric. In real life, he'd be my guy (minus the dead part), but I like my story heroes more interesting. Looking forward to More...

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Jan 05, 2010

Anna705 rated it:

I think this book, Living Dead In Dallas, is really complicated and mysterious. There is always a villian or problem that Charlaine Harris don't uncover until the end, which is really agonizing. She gives you some clues that will probably help you figure it out but in the end it's a huge surprise.
In the investigative shows my mother and I watchlike Law and Order, Ncis, Csi the clues always lead up to one person, but then in the end that person was framed or something because th More...

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Apr 14, 2009

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Apr 27, 2011

Jen rated it:

Sookie Stackhouse is back. She’s happy and she’s in love. Her romance with Vampire Bill is a few-months strong and for the first time, she has somewhere she belongs. But the peace she’s been enjoying can’t continue forever. The small town of Bon Temps is turned upside down again, when Lafayette, the flamboyant gay cook at Merlotte’s, is found dead in the backseat of Detective Andy Bellefleur’s car.

But that mystery has to wait. Because Bill’s vampire-boss Eric is sending Sookie More...

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Jan 10, 2012

Geraldine rated it:

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Mar 13, 2010

Rebecca rated it:

Charlaine Harris is one of those authors who has great characters, moderately interesting stories, and only mediocre writing. Sookie Stackhouse is a great character; it's a shame that she doesn't have a better vehicle. The plots are interesting, but in both this book and the first one, they have an unfinished, first-draft feeling. Harris sets up a lot of plot points, but only roughly draws them together, and sometimes seems like she forgets about them until the very end, where she suddenly says More...

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Mar 13, 2010

Jessica rated it:

I'm truly not crazy about this series... but for some reason I keep finding myself wanting to read them. I blame HBO entirely. I love the show, trashy as it may be.

I find Sookie (in the books and show, but more so in the books) to be incredibly corny. She "loves" Bill, but thinks Eric is tasty, and Sam is also kiss-worthy. She's kind of a bimbo, yes?

It's very odd for a television show to be better than the book(s) it is based on, but that seems to be the case h More...

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Jun 29, 2009

Alice rated it:

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Mar 13, 2010

Julie rated it:

Book 2 in the Sookie Stackhouse series, Living Dead In Dallas kept the fast, intriguing pace of the first book. Sookie is a likeable, sensible Southern girl, who seems to have a good head on her shoulders, even if that head happens to be able to read others' minds.

It was fun seeing Sookie and Bill a little farther into their relationship—the tender moments as well as the struggles. I also like the fact that while these books do assuredly have sex scenes, they are far from skanky.
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Mar 12, 2009

Mahlet rated it:

I really enjoyed this, especially all the interaction with Sookie and Eric...I actually liked their scenes together a lot more than Sookie's scenes with Bill! With Eric, it was always hot, or hilarious, or a combination of both! I can't wait for Sookie & Eric to eventually get together *fingers crossed*

I also don't understand all the reviewer comments regarding too much sex - did I miss something? I didn't think there were many Sookie/Bill bedroom scenes, and I found the ones tha More...

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Feb 19, 2009

Alaine rated it:

Charlaine Harris did it again! Being fairly new to this sub genre of fantasy I am really enjoying it. This book is action packed with some more 'species' introduced. The vampires are fairly typical and in this book we learn a lot more about them. This book is probably not quite as funny as the first but it is still extremely entertaining. In this book we also find out more about Bill's family.
The author still has a lot of scope to develop the characters further in the following books, whic More...

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Sep 13, 2011

Preeti Joan rated it:

another review from the Sookie Stackhouse series! i have to say, i was impressed. in the first book, Sookie's adventures were not as broad, should we say, in terms of the casualties. but now, they're going to Dallas, baby! :))

this book was about Sookie and Bill sent by the sheriff of Area 5, Eric, to Dallas because he has Sookie borrowed by the nest of vampires in Dallas. the nest leader, Stan, used Sookie's telepathy to find out what happened to their missing 'nest-mate'.

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Aug 20, 2008

Wiserblond rated it:

This series is hilarious. Laugh out loud funny! If you have lived in a small town in the south, you will identify with Sookie's observations and the local characters that weave in and out of the storyline.

This is a fun series and great summer reading. Anne Rice without the guilt and melodrama!

My two favorite characters are Eric the Viking Vampire and Bubba (a formerly famous icon who didn't die, but "passed over" as a Vampire...but there are issues)

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Jul 28, 2011

Danielle rated it:

I liked this one a lot more than the first. The plot was significantly less predictable and more entertaining. Now that I've read a few of the Sookie books, I'm thinking that its time to start watching "True Blood" :)

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Nov 13, 2011

Lindsay rated it:

Glad I didn't give up the series after book 1, which I found lacking after the errr sensory overload that is the tv series. Yes I would like her to slow down and linger over things, build more atmosphere, to write in more depth, but I'm gradually adapting to her pace and style and more than anything else I'll be finishing this series for Eric Northman...

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Oct 13, 2010

Samantha rated it:

I really enjoyed this book. Sookie has really come into her own, and I loved the sexual tension between her and Eric. The second series of True Blood is airing at the moment in the UK, and there seems to be differences namely Lafayette is still alive in the programme and Jason has joined the Fellowship of the Sun! Nevertheless, both versions work, so I recommend this book to fans of the show.

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Feb 06, 2009

Amy Wilder rated it:

The plot thickens...
Like the first Sookie book (Dead Until Dark) the novel is narrated in a chummy way by Sookie Stackhouse, a self-described telepathic barmaid. This book didn't fly quite as quickly as the first. Sookie's relationships get more complicated - with her vampire boyfriend and all the folks - human and vampire - that the two of them have to negotiate in order to stay together. There are also more supernatural creatures introduced, including some that aren't as familiar as v More...

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