Dead to the World

This is the book 4 in the Sookie Stackhouse series or for those who watch the HBO "True Blood". If you are reading the series you know that these books are nothing more than a guilty pleasure. However, having Eric be the main star of this book and Bill out of the book from the first chapter made me LOVE this book!
I think that the books are getting better and better. This book brought the reader into the world of witches and other shape-shifters. This book was a really good read. There are some great romance scenes with Sookie and Eric and Alcide my favorite werewolf was around too! Great read and I am looking forward to the next one!
Read January 2011

Club Dead

As I have stated before I did not like the first book in this series. The second, I found to be better. This one I loved!
This story brings us away from Sookie and Bill and more into the life of Sookie trying to get to Bill. Bill is off and doing some 'business' out of town and he gets into some trouble. Eric seems to be a bigger part of Sookie's life in this book, as well as a new character Alcide.
The story is great and it was nice to see some new characters and story line. I think that this book is a quick read and very entertaining.
Read June 2010

Chocolat

This was one of the strange times where I have seen the movie before I read the book. I liked the movie, yet I loved the book. I think the author, Harris, really caught me up in the 'voices' of each character.
This is the story about an outsider moving into a small town in France. The locals are curious however the town Priest is not happy about her arrival. The Priest seems to be trying (in vain) to get his parishioners to like him and come back to god. He views the woman and her child as sinners and possibly a witch. He believes that unless she is run out of town, the town will be come tarnished and indulge in immoral acts.
Vianne is a strong single mother. She is a business woman as well as a friend. The way that she is described and narrates her story through out the book you really get a sense of who she is as a person. In many ways she becomes a friend to the villagers and to the people passing through the town.
I think that the story is a quick read. I am glad I read the book after the movie. The movie is different from the book, yet both are a fun and fast story.
Read July 2009

Living Dead in Dallas

I think after reading the first book in this series, and HATING it, I am pleased that this one flew by!I read Dead Until Dark and then watched season 1 of True Blood. I really liked the show and the book wasn't to bad after that. In this book Sookie is loan out for use of her abilities. She gets out of her small town life and takes on Dallas, Texas. She is very naive compared to the characters that she meets.I found this book to be much more interesting then the first. I am still not a fan of the writing style. I feel that it jumps around a lot and things have to be re-read (as if I missed a paragraph).

Read July 2009

Dead Until Dark

I really did not like anything about this book. The writting is sloppy. The story feels like it is a few vampire books rolled into one. I am most likely going to give the next one in the series a shot. I heard that the show that is on HBO is really good.

I think reading Twilight first really spoiled it for me. To me those were so much better! I think maybe reading 5 vampire books in a row, could have made me not like this book.

Read December 2008