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The Golden Globe award-winning series, now showing on FX, the channel that brought us DEXTER.
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Cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse is having a streak of bad luck. First her co-worker is killed, and no one seems to care. Then she comes face-to-face with a beastly creature which gives her a painful and poisonous lashing. Enter the vampires, who graciously suck the poison from her veins (like they didn't enjoy it). The point is: they saved her life. So when one of the bloodsuckers asks for a favour, she obliges - and soon Sookie's in Dallas, using her telepathic skills to search for a missing vampire. She's supposed to interview certain humans involved, but she makes one condition: the vampires must promise to behave, and let the humans go unharmed. But that's easier said than done, and all it takes is one delicious blonde and one small mistake for things to turn deadly . . . The Sookie Stackhouse books are delightful Southern Gothic supernatural mysteries, starring Sookie, the telepathic cocktail waitress, and a cast of increasingly colourful characters, including vampires, werewolves and things that really do go bump in the night.
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54 of 56 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
This is the second book in the Southern Vampire novel series and is a blend of the cosy mystery with a dark twist of vampirism and a little romance. In Sookie Stackhouse's world, vampires have 'come out of their coffins' a la the style of Laurell K Hamilton's Anita Blake series. The vampires have a legal status in America (pay taxes)and many of them are trying to go 'main stream' i.e. live with humans and try not to kill them. Anyway, Sookie, a small town waitress with a gift of reading people's minds is having a streak of bad luck. First one of her co-workers is murdered and she is the unfortunate person to find him. Then she encounters a mythical creature in the woods who poisons her and the local vampires save her, leaving her in their debt. So when they ask her to go down to Dallas and use her telepathic powers to help locate a missing vampire, she agrees, but this is only the beginning of her troubles. Sookie is a likeable character and human character, despite her gift. And she narrates this story in a chatty, witty style. She is no superhero, her only gift or 'disability' as she calls it is her powers of mind reading, but that has schooled her abilties to keep a straight face when she inadvertantly 'hears' something she really didn't want to know, but her gift has some uses. The book is fast paced and engaging. It is quite sensual in parts (but nothing as extreme as Anita Blake's more recent exploits), and, oh yes, of course there are a few gory scenes. This is an excellent sequel to Dead Until Dark, which should be read first so you get an idea of how Sookie gets involved with the vampires in the first place.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
This is a FANTASTIC book by Charlaine Harris - it's the 2nd book in a series - the first being 'Dead until Dark', the 3rd is 'Dead Club'. I love this Author's style of writing, it's so easy. I loved this book, a definate keeper, you won't be disappointed.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
As often happens in a series like this (I feel the same thing about Harry Potter for example) as the first book really sets the story and is fatastically exciting, the second book has a lot to live up to and can sometimes fail to meet quite the same standards. In its own right this book is still really fun and lively, but I felt the whole taking-Sookie-to-Dallas thing didn't really work for me. I like her on her own territory best, with Bon Temps' characters feeling more realistic than the ones she deals with here. Having said all that, the series as a whole is probably my favourite in the vampire genre (if we ignore Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles, because they're an entity in themselves) and you will miss out if you don't read this installment. 5 stars for the series as a whole.
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Sookie Stackhouse book 2
If you read my review of Dead Until Dark then you'll know I was disappointed by the start to this series. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Sarah Gibson
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I'm not usually into modern vampire stories. I tried to read Twilight and it bored the hell outta me. but thi book was a treat to read. Read more
Published 5 months ago by claire lloyd
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As a real addict of supernatural reading i felt i had to give the trueblood series of books a look. Now im addicted. Read more
Published 7 months ago by shazzle
Getting better
I much preferred this book to Dead Until Dark. The characters now have a background, are more developed and although the writing is full of americanisms and sex scenes, I felt that... Read more
Published 7 months ago by Stepping Out of the Page
Another good Novel from Harris
I love the Sookie Stackhouse series and after reading 'Dead until Dark' I was looking forward to this book. Read more
Published 9 months ago by thatbookgirl
If you liked Dead Until Dark, you'll love this one
Book two of the Sookie Stackhouse aka Southern Vampire Mysteries aka True Blood series follows on with the story of Sookie the waitress in the small, Southern town of Bon Temps. Read more
Published 11 months ago by Hannah
FAB, FAB, FAB
am so biased as love all the books and tv series. i just enjoy the stories and the characters. love it!
Published 11 months ago by SG
not my style
thought i would like these books as I like it on TV but do not like the style of writing
Published 11 months ago by Shooting Star
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I am reading these books having watched 3 series of True Blood. The books are great but VERY different to the series. Read more
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