Review: Living Dead in Dallas
Reviewed by Jen
Sookie Stackhouse is back. She’s happy and she’s in love. Her romance with Vampire Bill is a few-months strong and for the first time, she has somewhere she belongs. But the peace she’s been enjoying can’t continue forever. The small town of Bon Temps is turned upside down again, when Lafayette, the flamboyant gay cook at Merlotte’s, is found dead in the backseat of Detective Andy Bellefleur’s car. A lot happens to Sookie in this book. She meets Barry, a hotel bell boy who is also a telepath. She makes a big impression on the Texas vampires, including their leader Stan… who will be back in later books. For the first time, we get glimpses of the sizzling sexual tension between Sookie and Eric. And fissures begin to show in her relationship with Bill. We see, along with Sookie, what Bill’s lack of humanity really means. And she has to ask herself some very tough questions about what she can and cannot accept in her life.
I enjoy Sookie’s voice. She maintains her spunky, country-girl mentality. She holds on to her own morality, though admittedly she doesn’t stay too rigid –she allows herself to recognize that some of her formerly held beliefs may have been naive and in need of adjustments. But Eric is definitely a shining star here… just a glimpse of the supernova character he’ll become.
4 stars.
Labels: by Jen, Charlaine Harris, Shifters, Urban Fantasy, Vampires
3 Comments:
Oh I love this series! It's really addictive. I like True Blood a lot but it dosen't live up to the books for me. Thanks for the review ^-^
Can't wait for Dead Reconing!
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I'm about three books behind but I so do enjoy this series. I totally agree with your thoughts on Sookie!
Great review as always Jen!
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