Review

“I love the imaginative, creative world of Charlaine Harris!” -Christine Feehan “Fans of Laurell K. Hamilton’s Anita Blake… should cotton to Sookie Stackhouse.” -Publishers Weekly “A delightful Southern Vampire detective series.” -Denver Post “Charlaine Harris playfully mixes several genres to make a new one that is her own bright creation.” -Rocky Mountain News
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Cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse is no typical Southern belle. She can read minds. And she’s got a thing for vampires. Which, in a town like Bon Temps, Louisiana, means she’ll have to watch her back-and neck… Includes: Dead Until Dark Living Dead in Dallas Club Dead Dead to the World Dead as a Doornail Definitely Dead All Together Dead From Dead to Worse

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From Publishers Weekly

Starred Review. Harris’s rousing fifth Sookie Stackhouse fantasy-mystery (after 2004’s Dead to the World) pits vampires, were-creatures, shifters and one fairy godmother against a sniper with an apparent aversion to nonhumans. If trying to discover who’s behind the shootings isn’t enough, the telepathic cocktail waitress from Bon Temps, La., has to cope with a few other distractions: her sexy “Were” friend, Alcide Herveaux, needs her help in his father’s bi (more…)

From Publishers Weekly

Bestseller Harris mixes humorous Southern-fried fantasy with biting satirical commentary in her seventh novel to feature Sookie Stackhouse, the bubbly telepathic barmaid from Bon Temps, La. (after 2006’s Definitely Dead). Sookie attends an all-important central U.S. vamp summit on the shores of Lake Michigan as a “human geiger counter” for Sophie-Anne Leclerq, vampire queen of a Louisiana weakened by Katrina and who will be tried during the event for murder (more…)

Amazon.com Review

From Emma Bull’s War for the Oaks to Laurell K. Hamilton’s Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series, from The X-Files to Buffy the Vampire Slayer, creators are mixing old European myths and legends with modern American pop culture. Incorporating influences ranging from blaxploitation movies and erotic novels to tabloid staples like UFOs and Elvis, authors and directors are creating a new mythology for the strip-mall, tract-house, cell-phone America of the new (more…)

From Publishers Weekly

In bestseller Harris’s perky sixth Southern Vampire novel to star Sookie Stackhouse (after 2005’s Dead as a Doornail), the telepathic waitress of Bon Temps, La., is off to (pre-hurricane) New Orleans to close out her dead cousin Hadley’s apartment. Hadley’s death six weeks earlier had been unexpected, since, as a vampire, she was already dead. Still, she’d led a lively existence as the main squeeze of the Queen of Louisiana, an omnisexual vampire, whose pol (more…)

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Starred Review. Harris outdoes herself in this pivotal eighth Sookie Stackhouse novel (after 2007’s All Together Dead), packing the story full of romantic tension and supernatural action. Having barely survived a catastrophic vampire hotel explosion, Sookie’s back at work in Bon Temps, La., serving vintage blood and waiting tables at Merlotte’s, a vampire bar. Participating in a friend’s wedding and fending off the advances of her vampire ex-lover, Bill, an (more…)