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Dead as a Doornail (Sookie Stackhouse #5)

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Sookie's got just a month, before the next full moon, to find out who wants her brother dead - and to stop the fiend! Sookie Stackhouse enjoys her life, mostly. She's a great cocktail waitress in a fun bar; she has a love life, albeit a bit complicated, and most people have come to terms with her telepathy. The problem is, Sookie wants a quiet life - but things just seem t...more

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Published 2009 by Gollancz Fiction (first published January 1st 2005)

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Sep 29, 2009 Elizabeth rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: 2009, in-by-of-the-americas, reviewed, vamps-and-other-mythical-beasts, fantasy-sci-fi, hem-steppers-and-bodice-rippers

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Here is something strange. I read children's books with pleasure, even without a child to read them to. I read cartoons, political diatribes, grammar books, and cookbooks. I read in-flight magazines and the instructions for how to set up my wireless router (I know, I'm a bad IT person; I read manuals). I will read anything. I'm like Thursday Next, who read herself into the washing instruction label (to escape a terrible fate and thwart the...more Warning: This review has far too many parentheses in it.

Here is something strange. I read children's books with pleasure, even without a child to read them to. I read cartoons, political diatribes, grammar books, and cookbooks. I read in-flight magazines and the instructions for how to set up my wireless router (I know, I'm a bad IT person; I read manuals). I will read anything. I'm like Thursday Next, who read herself into the washing instruction label (to escape a terrible fate and thwart the bad guys, I should mention). I really will read anything rather than read nothing. I will even read my own writing! And nothing I read embarrasses me -- except vampire books.

I finally figured out why they bother me. It's because they are trendy, and there isn't anything that bothers me more than feeling like a baa-ing sheep chewing on whatever may have spilled onto my normally green and happy pasture. The fact that it tastes good just makes me crazy. But I think this moment of self reflection has helped me become a better person. I solemnly swear to the following:

1. I will not mock the Oprah book club reader (the person has read Anna Karenina and I have not).
2. I will not sneer at the reader of self help books (even though I really, really want to).
3. I will refrain from commenting the next time some one says to me, "Didn't you just love Tuesdays with Morrie?" After all, I read vampire mysteries; who am I to judge?

Dead as a Doornail is truly an emblem of the genre. It should be studied by scholars to understand just what appeals to the modern American woman and why. It should be up on the stuff-white-people-like site. Truly, it is totally ridiculous that I and hundreds of thousands of others not only bought this book but have made the entire series into best sellers and are riveted by the HBO series. I heard an interview with the series creator who said something along the lines of: they're about the conjunction of sex and death, of course everyone's obsessed with them.

The book is fine (I read it in one day). The plot is crazy (someone is shooting shape shifters, Sookie is saved again by her fairy godmother, her ex-boyfriend(s) are still after her, and there is a battle to the death for pack mastership). The characters are the same ones you saw before (only now there is a vampire-pirate and a were-tiger). Sometimes you laugh out loud (Sookie wonders if her hot boss's shirt really needs all those buttons). Sometimes you cringe (Sookie matched her nail polish to her coat in one scene and her lipstick to her earrings in another). And sometimes you wish the author would keep her opinions to herself (no, Ms. Harris, staking a vampire should not be used as an analogy for lynching; the first is cartoon-ish, the second a deep and painful American tragedy that should never be made light of by anyone who doesn't understand it).

This is not the best book I have ever read. It's not even the best in the series. But it's funny and engaging and not terribly insulting and I am not going to feel embarrassed about reading it any more.

Baa.(less)

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Dec 26, 2008 Beth F. rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: 2008, fairies, shapeshifters, urban-fantasy, vampires, werewolves, i-reviewed-this-bad-boy, tnbbc-winter-2008

Oh, Sookie Sookie.

Another fun read, but I’m not feeling as passionate about Sookie & Co. after this installment. Don’t get me wrong, I enjoyed it. Thoroughly. And you can bet your buns I’ve already requested #6 from the library and will be checking my account furiously for notification that it’s ready and waiting for me. But some of the magic was missing from this one.

In the beginning of the book, Calvin Norris and Sam Merlotte were non-fatally shot and another female shifter, whose name I...more Oh, Sookie Sookie.

Another fun read, but I’m not feeling as passionate about Sookie & Co. after this installment. Don’t get me wrong, I enjoyed it. Thoroughly. And you can bet your buns I’ve already requested #6 from the library and will be checking my account furiously for notification that it’s ready and waiting for me. But some of the magic was missing from this one.

In the beginning of the book, Calvin Norris and Sam Merlotte were non-fatally shot and another female shifter, whose name I’ve already forgotten, was shot and killed in the parking lot of a Sonic. And a news report indicates that many other people in nearby areas have also been shot by a sniper in mysterious circumstances. Although the world at large may not realize the significance of the snipers victims, Sookie and several others in the community realize that all the targets have been shifters.

There were two bad guys in this whodunit. One of them I was able to guess right away, one of them was a surprise to me. After having read the first five in this series in a relatively short succession, this pleases me. Because if I was able to consistently guess them over and over, I might get bored and not want to read these books and that would be a bummer.

And like the previous four books, Sookie’s love life is generally a big factor in the plot. Even though she’s decidedly unattached and doesn't sleep with anybody this time around, she is being actively pursued by several men. This includes Bill and Eric. And Sam, of course. And Calvin Norris and Alcide Herveaux.

Sookie also learns quite a bit more about werewolf politics, learns how to file an insurance claim and what a gunshot wound feels like.

Lastly, I can’t end a Sookie Stackhouse review without pointing out the inconsistency du jour of this book: on an early page, Claudine the fairy is referred to as Claudine several times. But then whammo! In one paragraph she is called “Claudette” once before going back to being Claudine. If something this simple isn’t being caught, this probably gives you an idea about some of the other things that are sliding by the editors.
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Mar 19, 2009 Jessica rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Sigh. Sookie, Sookie, Sookie, your fashion sense is still stuck in the eighties. I blame this on the author, who no doubt thinks she's writing you up to date. I myself, did a face palm, when I read about your lipstick matching your red earrings and your red socks with your black work pants. Yeah, I did that in junior high, too. Questionable fashion aside, I still really enjoy this character. She had some tough times this book, what with having no sexual escapades (the first time ever, although i...more

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Aug 15, 2008 Miina rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I cottoned onto the Southern Vampire Series because I saw the "True Blood" ad campaign by HBO. It markets a synthetic blood beverage, so natch, I was intrigued. Basically, I was led to this series which features a telepathic heroine by the name of Sookie Stackhouse. For whatever reason, I thought this was a young adult series (it is SO not, btw) and on shallow reflection, I think it's because of her name: Sookie. I mean c'mon. It sounds like a sound you make to call pigs to you. However, other t...more I cottoned onto the Southern Vampire Series because I saw the "True Blood" ad campaign by HBO. It markets a synthetic blood beverage, so natch, I was intrigued. Basically, I was led to this series which features a telepathic heroine by the name of Sookie Stackhouse. For whatever reason, I thought this was a young adult series (it is SO not, btw) and on shallow reflection, I think it's because of her name: Sookie. I mean c'mon. It sounds like a sound you make to call pigs to you. However, other than her weird name and some pretty bad editing, this series, thus far, is just good plain, slightly porno, FUN!
In a nutshell you have a 20-something virginal blond telepathic waitressing in rural Louisiana who hooks up with a sexy vampire. Trouble abounds in their relationship, and in the town, and complications arise due to the affections of another, more powerful vampire, a Werewolf, a nasty coven of Witches and two shape shifters. Our heroine goes from being perceived as being a freak of nature by her fellow humans to a truly hot commodity within the supernatural world. I find Sookie's struggle to deal with these attentions endearing.
It would have been so easy for the author, Charlaine Harris, to add a serious subtext to this series with the emergence of Vampires into human society and their struggle to mainstream as a metaphor for racism and the battle for civil rights. However, this story is told from Sookie's perspective and Sookie is a pretty simple, straight forward gal who just doesn't delve into murky socio-political territories. You could argue that Harris is taking the easy way but I'll just call it consistent characterization. Maybe Harris herself doesn't bother herself with such thoughts but why hold it against her? Not every book has to be a deep examination of the human experience.
I'll tell you what this book is though: a lively creation of an alternate reality where creatures humans always assumed were fabricated nightmares, have essentially "come out of the coffin." But Harris doesn't limit herself to vampires and I give her a lot of credit for that. She plays with other mythological beings and crafts these really fun murder mysteries set in the Deep South and throws in some steamy love scenes all the while. (Is it considered necrophilia if you do It with a vampire? Just wondering.) It's been a long time since I've had so much fun reading a story like this.(less)

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Jan 28, 2009 Shannon (Giraffe Days) rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: vampires, urban-fantasy, 2009, mystery-suspense

Someone's taking lethal shots at weres, including the leader of the Hotshot community, Calvin Norris and Sam, Sookie's boss. Calvin's people think it's Sookie's newly-turned brother Jason, but Sookie's determined to prove otherwise. In the meantime, she has to make a deal with Eric to get a temporary bartender to cover for Sam, and Alcide wants her help with the choosing of a new packmaster for the Shreveport werewolves. There's no rest for Sookie as her life is targeted several times, but thank...more

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Nov 01, 2008 Becky rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: mystery-and-thrillers, vampires, romance, reviewed, fantasy, 2008, the_south

Another good installment in the Sookie Stackhouse series.

I enjoyed the story, once again, but I was disappointed by one thing, which has sort of been bothering me since the 1st book in the series. It seems to me that at times Charlaine Harris isn't able to keep her details straight. Granted, she has written A LOT and I can certainly understand confusing the details in that situation, but surely any decent editor would have caught these types of discrepancies...

For example:
- (Book 1) Fang-bange...more

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Oct 02, 2008 Angela rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: urban-fantasy, sookie-stackhouse

The fifth installment of the Sookie Stackhouse series, Dead as a Doornail, was one I didn't care as much for the first time through. On re-reading it, I found I liked it quite a bit better. Someone is taking shots at the local shifters, and Sookie's brother Jason--newly made a werepanther--is under suspicion. The werepanther leader Calvin and the werewolf Alcide have not yet abandoned their interest in her, while her ex-lover Bill seems bent on making her jealous. Meanwhile, someone actively has...more

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Oct 03, 2008 Amanda rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction, read-in-2008, vampire-books, authors-charlaine-harris

I did not like this story as much as book 4, which is by far my favorite so far (I am a sucker for memory-challenged Eric), but it was still an interesting tale. However, after having too many suitors, Sookie is fast running out of potential soul mates. Eric is back to being his old arrogant self, Bill is sulking around with a realtor, Alcide is freaked out Sookie killed his ex and blames her for his father's death and Sam is incapacitated from being shot (although they did share a heated moment...more

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Apr 06, 2008 Cherie rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: favorites

A sniper has been targeting the shape-shifting population of Bon Temps and the surrounding communities. As a new were-panther, Sookie's primary concern is for her brother Jason. But as it turns out, she's also a target, despite the fact that she's only a psychic, not a shifter.

This is the 5th book in Charlaine Harris's Southern Vampire Mysteries, aka the Sookie Stackhouse books. I enjoyed coming back to this series after not having a chance to read them for the last year or so; it felt like revi...more

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Jul 17, 2007 Sherrie rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: vampire mystery lovers!

Shelves: myfavorites, 2006booklist, vampirelit

Book #4 of 2006 - Finished reading it on 1-26-06. Stay with me here…don’t run away! This book was GOOD! Fifth in the series of a Bon Temps, Louisiana waitress who lives in a town where vampires and werewolves are commonplace…and oh yeah, she can read minds. Sounds stupid, right? Just another one of those vampire-genre books? Not at all! The main character, Sookie, is witty, strong and smart. The writing is quick-witted and fun. I soon found I have to go back and read the entire series. Charlaine...more

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Dec 31, 2008 Lori rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction, fricken-awesome

Thank goodness Ms. Harris laid off the hot-n-heavy sex stuff this round! But my oh my, does Sookie get all the men....

In this 5th installment of the Sookie series, we are reaquainted with Sookies past flames, Bill and Eric, my current favorite wanna be-squeeze Alcide, and introduced to Quinn, who I think Harris is setting up for a bit of Sookie-lovin' in future novels. Sam is still trying some smooth moves on our favorite mind-reading waitress as well...

This series is like readers Crack! I cant...more

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Jan 24, 2009 Jim rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: fantasy, paranormal-urban

I'll give this pretty much the same review as I gave the 4th book. 3.5 stars again, so I'll give this one a 4. The series is still humming right along with a slightly more complicated plot & a deeper look into the hidden world that Sookie is getting more aquainted with. Again, it was a fast, easy read. I have to say I'm tickled that I'm looking forward to the next book.

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Jan 15, 2009 Toni rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: fantasy lovers, urban fantasy fans, sookie fans, vampire lovers, fairy lovers

Recommended to Toni by: my mother

Shelves: fiction, silly-series

Vampires, and werewolves, and fairies! Oh My! This was incredibly enjoyable to read. I was almost in disbelief at how very magical Bon Temps has become. This book, thankfully, has much less shameless sex, and much more content. I am really starting to enjoy Harris' voice.

The intense conversations between members of the "outed" paranormal community, and "secret" societies is brilliant. I loved the references to huge events such as the fairy war of Iowa, and encountering a pirate ship with a vamp...more

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Mar 29, 2009 Janelle Dazzlepants rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: vampires, urban-fantasy

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Jun 13, 2013 Megan Baxter rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

So, Sookie doesn't actually have sex with anyone in this book. I think I'm a little disappointed.

This was a reread, and I've read this series all out of order, and enjoy them, while forgetting them entirely in between reads. But when I came into this one, and realized at the end that Sookie isn't actually with anyone in this book, I was a little...confounded.

No less than, wait, let's me count, four, five, no, six, guys have the hots for her in this one, but she's not actually with any of them....more So, Sookie doesn't actually have sex with anyone in this book. I think I'm a little disappointed.

This was a reread, and I've read this series all out of order, and enjoy them, while forgetting them entirely in between reads. But when I came into this one, and realized at the end that Sookie isn't actually with anyone in this book, I was a little...confounded.

No less than, wait, let's me count, four, five, no, six, guys have the hots for her in this one, but she's not actually with any of them. She doesn't sleep with any of them. Although there are some smoochies. And leg-licking. Huh.

That's not what I remember about these books.

I have an odd relationship to this series, in that I started with the next book in the series, number six, and have bounced around like a ping pong ball. Now that I've read most of the first six or seven, I guess I now have a wider canvas to slot in where, exactly, this one comes in the overall scope of things.

And that's where it comes in. Her brother is struggling with his new circumstances, Sookie is sitting on a windfall after taking care of Eric in the previous book (one I've still never read), and boy, is she going to need it.

I do appreciate that grounding of these books, so over the top in other ways, in real concerns, like health insurance and missing work. Although, after she'd just said that she could have paid her hospital bills herself, although they had been paid by another party, it did strain credulity a bit that she was then worried about missing a single shift of work. If you could have paid your hospital bills on the spot, you can take a couple of days off of work on that same money.

At any rate, someone is taking potshots at Bon Temps shifters. And that someone seems to be gunning for Sookie as well. And she is circled by Bill, and Eric, and Alcide, and Sam, and Calvin, and...who was the sixth? I swear I counted six. Oh, wait, Quinn. Right!

So yeah. This is a fine entry in a series I enjoy but am not that attached to. But filled with sexual tension rather than actual sexytimes.(less)

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Jul 20, 2011 Luxie Ryder rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Ok, I've just finished this one and I've come to two conclusions. First, that Sookie isn't a very nice person...and second, that Charlaine's plots are becoming formulaic. I hope to be surprised during the next book but I pretty much expect that Sookie will become invaluable to yet another kind of gorgeous supernatural guy, who will then join the cast of thousands of other men courting her and either trying to win her love or jump her bones. I can also predict that she will hate every woman she m...more

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Dec 05, 2009 Tony duncan rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: fantasy vampire afficionados

Shelves: audio, humor, sci-fi-fantasy

I just don;t get tired of the writing and the stroy line just keeps moving along with consistant chatracters that do evolve. However Sookie is just a man MAGNET. Why does every supernatural handsome and successful man want her so much? OK, she is hot, but aren't there ANY other really multi dimensional woman around.
But I like the complex ways the Author advances the characters and the plot at the same time, as we learn more about the story we learn more about the people and they get more real an...more

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Jan 13, 2009 Anna rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: vampire-fiction

At this point, the novelty of little Southen Sookie is starting to wear thin. Harris has clearly established that "any woman worth her salt" does sensible things, is tough, doesn't put up with anyone's crap, and can clean a mean house. Thank you, 1952!

But I think if one looks deeper into the story (assuming this is even possible), the entire series can be viewed as an allegory for women's liberation. In book 1 Sookie starts out as a piece of eye candy. The Bon Temps natives either want to bed he...more

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Sep 05, 2012 Natalie rated it 4 of 5 stars

Another fun romp with Sookie and the gang! Attempts on her life aside, I really wanna be Sookie, seriously, who wouldn't want to have Eric, Bill, Sam and Alcide chasing her?!
It loses a star though, purely for the jarringly annoying moment where Sookie feels the need to tell us a boy/girl set of twins are not identical because their eyes are very different, seriously?! We didn't get that just from the boy/girl thing?! Hello!!!
Have to edit my review, after a debate with my sister, and a spot of g...more

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Feb 28, 2009 Jennifer rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: 2009

I got through this one too quickly. I'm reading this series with a co-worker of mine, and she is chiding me for going so fast. Oh, well.

Sookie, oh, Sookie. It must be a tough life having all of these supernatural men throwing themselves at you. Bill, Sam, Alcide, Eric, Calvin, and now, Quinn. I'm foreseeing lots of shananigans in the future. However, this book felt like a bit of a placeholder. Sure, there was the mystery of the sniper. Unlike good mysteries, there were no good clues to the snipe...more

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Oct 23, 2012 Gabriella rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: must-re-read, books-with-vampires, books-with-fairies, 2012, owned-books

This book was great. I have totally become obsessed with Sookie and Bon Temps. Hooked for sure. SOOOOOO much stuff happens in this book, wow! Sookie is getting close to a few different guys and it's so hard to pick one I like best. I'm mostly leaning toward Eric (I just love him!) As usual Jason is dealing with a whole mess of problems and Sam has got a couple too. Well, now that I think about it, pretty much everyone has something going on. The book is a lot to digest, considering the fact that...more

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Aug 06, 2011 Kana rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: vampires, audiobook, were-people, mystery, kickass-heroines, fantasy, fairies, chic-lit, new-orleans, comfort-series

This book is all about the boys. Poor Sookie.

The Boys:
-Alcide
Manipulative. I didn't care for him hooking up with Debbie after showing interest in Sookie. Even if he did drop Debbie....eventually, it was still insulting to Sookie how far he let Debbie go with her abuse on Sookie. And his attempted blackmail with Sookie? Not cool man. Not at all cool. I don't care how good looking he may be.

-Eric
Sookie's refusal to give him details on Book 4, is priceless. Her reasons behind withholding the even...more

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Dec 01, 2007 Lain rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I thought I'd heard of all the "good" mystery series with female protagonists... but somehow, this one slipped by me! I was more than pleasantly surprised by this book, #5 in Harris' "Vampire" mystery series about Sookie Stackhouse, a "gifted" waitress with a penchant for danger and deadly (or should I say, dead) men.

Gothic appeal aside, this book was full of interesting characters, inventive plot twists, and out-of-the-ordinary occurrences -- including an Elvis sighting. I love an author who c...more

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Jun 19, 2012 Zee rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

When I started this series I really enjoyed reading them, but once I got to the fourth and now this book I really can't stand them. Sookie is the most annoying character ever compared to Bella from the Twilight series. She always has some guy after her, or she's having sex all the time. She always points out how naive she is yet at times she say's she's clever. She just say's a lot of things from how she doesn't know what men see in her to her looking amazingly good looking in 'fuck' me red pump...more

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Jul 26, 2011 Melissa rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Recommended to Melissa by: Amber Guildner

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Nov 10, 2011 Judith.garza rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Dead as a doornail is a bit of a downer after Dead to the World, I ran off to the library to get this book hoping for more of Sookie and Eric and was disappointed to find that instead Sookie was receiving offers from Calvin the were panther, Alcide the were wolf, Sam the (collie) shifter, interest was shown with Quinn the tiger and of course there was Bill, attempting to make her jealous.
As with the previous book, Sookie has moved away from saying how dumb she is every 3 pages, which makes for a...more

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Jun 19, 2010 Fiona added it · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction, borrowed

Yes, it's another action-packed instalment in the adventures of Sookie Stackhouse and friends! As usual, there is murder and mayhem, supernatural creatures, and Sookie's lovelife is never simple.[return][return]I've said it before, I'll say it again, I love Sookie's "voice" in these books. Here's a sample:[return][return]"Claudine smiled impishly. "I was spending the night with Sookie," she said, winking. In a second, we were the objects of fascinated scrutiny from every male within hearing..."[...more

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Apr 01, 2009 Lighthearted rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: humorous-fiction, mystery, romance, supernatural-fiction, vampire-fiction

Sookie’s life is complicated. Her brother is showing all of the signs of becoming a were-panther and the timing couldn’t be worse—a sniper has apparently set sights on the shapeshifting population of Bon Temps. You would think that would be bad enough, but it isn’t—since Jason was ‘made’ a were-panther by a natural were-panther’s attack, the local shapeshifters think he may be the sniper.

In between pacifying the shapeshifters and trying to find the sniper, Sookie is reluctantly pulled into an un...more

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Feb 24, 2009 Susan rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This series is a flat-out BLAST to read. Harris does a great job with her dialogue--she has me talking, OUT LOUD, to my book as I'm reading (my co-workers think I'm nuts) but honestly, you can't help it at times! It's so easy to feel such a sense of immediacy with Sookie, you might as well be getting the dish from one of your girlfriends. I love that she doesn't have the details of "real world" vs. "supernatural world" cleanly worked out...it's messy, violent at times, certainly surprising and s...more

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Feb 18, 2009 Sarah rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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About Charlaine Harris

Charlaine Harris has been a published novelist for over twenty-five years. A native of the Mississippi Delta, she grew up in the middle of a cotton field. Now she lives in southern Arkansas with her husband, her three children, three dogs, and a duck. The duck stays outside.

Though her early output consisted largely of ghost stories, by the time she hit college (Rhodes, in Memphis) Charlaine was wr...more Charlaine Harris has been a published novelist for over twenty-five years. A native of the Mississippi Delta, she grew up in the middle of a cotton field. Now she lives in southern Arkansas with her husband, her three children, three dogs, and a duck. The duck stays outside.

Though her early output consisted largely of ghost stories, by the time she hit college (Rhodes, in Memphis) Charlaine was writing poetry and plays. After holding down some low-level jobs, she had the opportunity to stay home and write, and the resulting two stand-alones were published by Houghton Mifflin. After a child-producing sabbatical, Charlaine latched on to the trend of writing mystery series, and soon had her own traditional books about a Georgia librarian, Aurora Teagarden. Her first Teagarden, Real Murders, garnered an Agatha nomination.

Soon Charlaine was looking for another challenge, and the result was the much darker Lily Bard series. The books, set in Shakespeare, Arkansas, feature a heroine who has survived a terrible attack and is learning to live with its consequences.

When Charlaine began to realize that neither of those series was ever going to set the literary world on fire, she regrouped and decided to write the book she’d always wanted to write. Not a traditional mystery, nor yet pure science fiction or romance, Dead Until Dark broke genre boundaries to appeal to a wide audience of people who just enjoy a good adventure. Each subsequent book about Sookie Stackhouse, telepathic Louisiana barmaid and friend to vampires, werewolves, and various other odd creatures, has drawn more readers. The Southern Vampire books are published in Japan, Great Britain, Greece, Germany, Thailand, Spain, France, and Russia.

In addition to Sookie, Charlaine has another heroine with a strange ability. Harper Connelly, lightning-struck and strange, can find corpses… and that’s how she makes her living.

In addition to her work as a writer, Charlaine is the past senior warden of St. James Episcopal Church, a board member of Mystery Writers of America, a past board member of Sisters in Crime, a member of the American Crime Writers League, and past president of the Arkansas Mystery Writers Alliance. She spends her "spare" time reading, watching her daughter play sports, traveling, and going to the movies. (less)

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“Did we have sex?" he asked directly.
For about two minutes, this might actually be fun. "Eric," I said, "we had sex in every position I could imagine, and some I couldn’t. We had sex in every room in my house, and we had sex outdoors. You told me it was the best you’d ever had." (At the time he couldn’t recall all the sex he’d ever had. But he’d paid me a compliment.) "Too bad you can’t remember it," I concluded with a modest smile.
Eric looked like I’d hit him in the forehead with a mallet. For all of thirty seconds his reaction was completely gratifying.” — 514 people liked it

“My bullshit meter is reading that as 'false'.” — 360 people liked it

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