About this title: When a vampire asks cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse to use her telepathic skills to find another missing vampire, she agrees under one condition: the vampires must promise to behave and let the humans that are involved to go unharmed. Easier said than done. All it takes is one delicious blond and one small mistake for things to turn deadly.
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Orbit
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9781841493008ISBN:1841493007
Description: Good. Our aim is to create value for our customers through the provision of low cost, affordable products and an overall satisfying buying experience. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: ORION PUBLISHING CO Country = UNITED KINGDOM
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780575089389ISBN:0575089385
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 288 pages. The golden globe award-winning series, now showing on fx, the channel that brought us dexter. (Paperback) read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Very Good. 0441009239 **mass market paperback**--Exactly as pictured--EXACT ISBN MATCH--cover has shelf wear at tips of corners and minor cover crease or curl, minor Spine Creasing, No personalizations, No marks in the text at all. Tight and well bound. read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Ace Books
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780441009237ISBN:0441009239
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 304 p. Sookie Stackhouse Novels (Paperback). Audience: General/trade. read more
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Spine has one crease Covers show bumping and front covers edge tips are bent Edges show wear even on lower spine edge Text is CLEAN and tight a SMOKE FREE book. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 304 p. Sookie Stackhouse Novels (Paperback). Audience: General/trade. read more
Description: Very Good in Lite Wear jacket. B+/B condition: Lite Wear to cover/edges, no loose pages, slight cover flare----NOTE: Standard/Media-mail can take over 21 business-days to arrive. read more
Description: Very Good. 0441009239 Mass Market Paperback, Condition: Very Good; this book is in very good condition with light curve to the spine / light reading creases to the covers. read more
"Another entertaining vampire book. For some reason (perhaps because they are immortal) vampires greatly interest me. I picked this one up at the grocery store and so entertained that I plan to get them all. Not great literature but IMO GREAT entertainment."
"Sookie and Bill are on their way to see Eric, when Sookie meets Mary Ann, who has a message for Eric, attempting to kill Sookie! Eric has hired out Sookie’s abilities to the vampires in Dallas. They are missing some numbers in their nest. Sookie soon finds out that she hates the big city, and Bon Temps is not such a bad place to live in. Also, the Fellowship of the Sun, a tyrannical Christian group, have chosen the vampires as their next crusade. They know who Sookie is and she is captured, naturally. And through her release, she meets some more of the supernatural, shape shifters and werewolves. Her greatest challenge is not only to convince the vampire geek Stan to turn the traitors over to the police, but to convince Eric, (if not herself) that she is in love with Bill. Her homecoming to Bon Temps is not welcoming because she still has to figure out who murdered her friend and co-worker, Lafayette!"
"This was a very quick read. Harris knows how to keep things moving. The change of scenery was a bit disappointing in that I didn't feel I got to know anything about Dallas but I understand this isn't a travelogue.
Sookie continues to be an enjoyable character but others have mentioned that they feel her lover Bill is a bit flat. I agree as he didn't seem to have much to do on the page. Some things he did off page (negotiated with the Shapechangers etc.) which is a little odd for a main character. But Harris gave him some life in the last few pages of the book with the family ties reveal. I actually like her boss Sam more and almost wish he was Sookie's hook-up but I can see for purposes of the overall story that Sam needs to be the "suitor in the wings" or "in the fur" as it were.
The story had some strong adult situations (including an orgy!) in it but Harris deftly described things without getting too graphic which isn't an easy thing to pull off. So cheers to Ms. Harris for another fun adventure with Sookie Stackhouse."
"(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. when she arrives to work one morning to discover one of their short order cooks dead in the backseat of a police car, Sookie is a bit worried. murder isn't exactly an everyday occurrence in the little town, and disposing of bodies in the back of police cars isn't exactly the norm either. however, before she can dig too deep into that mystery, she and Bill are summoned to do some 'work' in Dallas. as a telepath, she is a huuuuuge help to other vampires, and is 'loaned out' to find information they need. not exactly her favorite thing to do, but at least she prevents the vampires from killing innocent people unnecessarily, right? there are vampires missing in Dallas, and Sookie soon learns that a group calling themselves the Fellowship of the Sun Center, may have some pretty sinister motives.
i liked the introduction of other supernatural characters to this mystery, and i thought they were weaved in pretty well. i think my biggest challenge was that the book felt a bit like a sandwich. it opened with the murder in Bon Temps, had the mystery in Dallas, and then closed with the murder in Bon Temps. it didn't feel as if the two stories meshed well together - and by the time she returned home from being in Dallas, i had almost forgotten the opening of the story all together.
overall, i still really dig Sookie's voice and her personality. not over the top, but confident. i can tell that Harris is setting up some love-triangle-drama for the rest of the series, which should compliment the mystery well. while i did not enjoy this one as much as Dead Until Dark, i still plowed through the book in a matter of days. it deals with more serious issues than Dead Until Dark, and did so well. the furthering of the vampire and supernatural mythology was laid out for future books too - and i can't wait to read them!
fave quote: "Though I was a human-albeit a weird one-I knew better. I'd been a lot happier when I believed Bill had some classifiable illness. Now, I knew that creatures we'd shoved off into the realm of myth and legend had a nasty habit of proving themselves real. Take the maenad. Who'd have believed an ancient Greek legend would be strolling through the woods of northern Louisiana?" (63) fix er up: the clunky-ness of the two mysteries. if they had meshed or overlapped more, that would have been nice."
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