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Charlaine Harris – Southern Vampire Mysteries. (Southern Vampire Mysteries. I would run out of great Vampire Romance Novels.
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Sookie Stackhouse is a series of books written by bestselling author Charlaine Harris that were first published in 2001. Also informally known as The Sookie Stackhouse Novels / Chronicles, it has also been retronymed the True Blood Series upon reprinting, to capitalize on the 2008 HBO television adaptation of the series, True Blood. In The Southern Vampire Mysteries series, Harris develops a detailed mythology and alternate history that approaches supernatural beings as real; at the beginning of the series, vampires have only been public knowledge for a couple of years. Other supernatural beings, such as werewolves, shapeshifters, etc., exist but do not go public until later in the series. Its history has otherwise unfolded so closely to that of the real world that the series contains occasional references to popular culture. The series is narrated in first person perspective by Sookie Stackhouse. She is a waitress and a telepath in the fictional town of Bon Temps, Louisiana.
The first book in the series, Dead Until Dark, won the Anthony Award for Best Paperback Mystery in 2001. The tenth book, Dead in the Family, was released on May 4, 2010.
Harris was originally contracted to write 10 books, but she revealed at Comic Con 2009 that she has signed a contract for three additional books.
Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Living Dead in Dallas, Dead to the World, Definitely Dead, Club Dead, Dead Until Dark, Dead as a Doornail, Dead and Gone, All Together Dead, From Dead to Worse, a Touch of Dead, Dead in t Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Living Dead in Dallas, Dead to the World, Definitely Dead, Club Dead, Dead Until Dark, Dead as a Doornail, Dead and Gone, All Together Dead, From Dead to Worse, a Touch of Dead, Dead in the Family. Excerpt: A Touch of Dead A Touch of Dead is a collection of short stories from Charlaine Harris 's series The Southern Vampire Mysteries. This title was released on October 6th, 2009.
This book only contains the short stories Harris has published in which Sookie Stackhouse is present. Stories References (URLs online) A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at All Together Dead All Together Dead is the seventh book in Charlaine Harris 's series The Southern Vampire Mysteries. After being betrayed by her vampire love, Bill Compton, Sookie Stackhouse attends an all-important central U.S. Vampire Summit on the shores of Lake Michigan as a 'human geiger counter' for Sophie-Anne Leclerq, Vampire Queen of Louisiana and who will be tried during the event for murdering her husband, King of Arkansas.
The summit is a tense situation. The queen is in a precarious position, her power base weakened by hurricane damage to New Orleans. And there are some vamps who would like to finish what nature started.
Sookie knows the queen is innocent, but she is hardly prepared for other shocking murders, not to mention protests by the Fellowship of the Sun, a right-wing anti-vampire movement. Sookie's bond with Eric Northman gets closer and she discovers Quinn 's past. Plot summary The summit, which has attracted undead power players from all over the central United States, is sure to be tense, due in no small part to the rampi. Okay, you know what?
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I really like these books. I've reviewed some individually, but I'm going to cover the whole set in this review because I've just blown through the entire series in one solid reading binge. Yes, it's sexy trashy fun a lot of the time, but I've got to say I'm really quite taken with the description of life in northern Louisiana. The people's names are different, the traditions are different, the food's different. I'm a northeastern girl who spent a decade in Europe, and I neve Okay, you know what? I really like these books. I've reviewed some individually, but I'm going to cover the whole set in this review because I've just blown through the entire series in one solid reading binge.
Yes, it's sexy trashy fun a lot of the time, but I've got to say I'm really quite taken with the description of life in northern Louisiana. The people's names are different, the traditions are different, the food's different. I'm a northeastern girl who spent a decade in Europe, and I never had any real desire to visit the South until I read these books. And it took me a while before I realized that was what was happening, but there you go. These books make me want to visit rural Louisiana. There are vampires and werewolves and fairies and telepathy, all of which I'm pretty sure don't exist in Louisiana, so I'm not looking for that.
It's more that Harris spends quite a lot of time on the cadence of Bon Temps. She not only explains the family ties and personal prejudices of the townspeople, she sticks to them over a looooong series of books. The people of Bon Temps behave in line with their characterization the vast majority of the time, and that is not true of most long series.
And Harris manages to weave them into the story even when they're not key players; you know how usually in a mystery, if a character from book 3 suddenly pops up in book 7 you know there's something significant about that appearance? Not in this series - it could just as easily be a piece of shading showing that Jane Bodehouse has been behaving exactly as she did in book 3 all of this time, and while we've been off in supernatural land, she's just been progressing along her own personal drama of being the bar's resident drunk.
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For a series all about the supernatural, I feel like I know more about the rhythm of Bon Temps than I have pretty much any other literary town I can recall. The mysteries are usually pretty tight (bar the short stories - don't read those, they're awful). The bodice-ripping bits are appropriately bodice-ripping, and Sookie's voice is kind of charming to me. She's funny and wry and sometimes reflective and sometimes stubborn, but when bundled all together it makes for a unique character who I've really come to enjoy. Yes, sometimes she does stupid things, but so does everybody else.
As we get further into the series, the sheer volume of backstory can make some passages heavy lifting. If you've read the entire series, you really don't need to have every prior book's plot recapped, and it can get annoying. There are also places where the story drags noticeably (there's a muddy slog from book 8 to 11, I'd say), and I wonder if that's author fatigue.
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And I do know that plenty of people are getting tired of the minute descriptions of Sookie's day as she washes linens, picks up dry cleaning, buys more TrueBlood and tans, but for some weird reason I don't mind those bits at all. Then again, I am a woman who voluntarily makes cocoa from scratch in a 5-minute process when most normal people just use an instant mix, so I may have an attachment to ritual and process that makes me a little more tolerant of that sort of thing. (Sookie also cleans all the time. Sadly, I do not have that quirk AT ALL.) I just really, really like these books. They're fun, they're cozy, and they've certainly introduced me to a subculture I never really gave much thought to before - the Louisiana culture, not the supernatural culture. Anyhow, I'll probably continue to reread these every so often when I have a lazy afternoon and want to go on a mini mind-vacation. They're good, and I like them, and that's that.
Side note: what is up with books set in the south and male characters with long hair? I never expected men with French braided hair to be described as 'sexy' but between this series and Anita Blake, I've begun to wonder.
Long 'corkscrew' hair, even - is this a regional thing? Ok, so I feel like a cliche reading these books, but I liked them and here is why, CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT. These books would have been terrible if the main character wasn't so much fun. You really grow to know and love her. Sookie portrays a 20-something, typical southern woman with a supernatural quirk.
She starts out naive to this changing world around her. A curious Sookie falls down the rabbit hole into the dangerous lives of the 'supes'. She struggles to maintain a sense of self and her sout Ok, so I feel like a cliche reading these books, but I liked them and here is why, CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT. These books would have been terrible if the main character wasn't so much fun.
You really grow to know and love her. Sookie portrays a 20-something, typical southern woman with a supernatural quirk. She starts out naive to this changing world around her. A curious Sookie falls down the rabbit hole into the dangerous lives of the 'supes'.
She struggles to maintain a sense of self and her southern bell appearance (which none of the locals buy into anyway). After each book I was truly dying to know what happened next in the world of Sookie Stackhouse. It does get redundant with the whole, 'Sookie's in trouble and needs help. , But I expected that with this sort of genre. Let's not forget, sweet church-going southern Sookie has her oh-so-trashy moments too. Do these guys each have supernatural penises?
Hehe, maybe, since they seem anatomically mis proportioned;-) But hey, why not give a fisherman's tale if your going to write about it and only Sookie can pull off mild beastiality and sex with a corpse while still making off with some class. I would like to note though; the plot in a few books came off as being rushed, or maybe Charlaine Harris didn't know where She was going with it and decided to make up an implausible twist at the end? Despite all that, I find myself lost in awe of the character, Sookie. I can forgive the plethora of bad decisions that are obviously so (even silly at times) because I just really like to read her inner dialogue. I find the character holds an interesting grace about herself, even in the most ungraceful moments.
She supplies tons of smart witty banter that I just can't get enough of. I was even laughing out loud at times. Some bad plotting aside, this series was a fun read. Recommend it with popcorn and a warm fuzzy blanket.
Since there's 13 books, you might want to leave the butter out:D. I'm lumping all twelve books in one review because they're fun, light, quick reads; the characters are interesting, intriguing, dramatic and fun; the location is part of the story and is very well-portrayed; the stories are all suspenseful, clever, and include supernatural twists and turns; and ultimately I love how Sookie develops as a character and learns to deal with the invasion of the supernatural world into her life. I bought them all and will re-read them again and again. No, they're not I'm lumping all twelve books in one review because they're fun, light, quick reads; the characters are interesting, intriguing, dramatic and fun; the location is part of the story and is very well-portrayed; the stories are all suspenseful, clever, and include supernatural twists and turns; and ultimately I love how Sookie develops as a character and learns to deal with the invasion of the supernatural world into her life. I bought them all and will re-read them again and again. No, they're not haunting, existentialist, mind-blowing literature, but they're definitely a whole lot of fun. Read and enjoy!
Phew, there - 12 books reviewed as one!