Book The First
Quest the First, Book 1! Club Dead by Charlaine Harris.
I actually finished Club Dead on Monday, but we had a lot of running around to do on Tuesday and Wednesday, so this is my first chance to give a quick review. In fact, I'm well on my way to reading my second book for the Quest!
I liked this book, and I like this series. This series has been around for a while, but the idea of a southern vampires just didn't do anything for me... and for some reason the name Sookie made me even more sure I didn't want to read this. LOL! Still, after HBO picked it up for a series and I kept seeing good reviews of the different books in the series, I decided to at least give the first book a try, and to my surprise, I really liked it.
Club Dead is the third book in the Sookie Stackhouse series (or the Southern Vampire Mysteries as they are also called), and I find myself more interested in the characters as the series progresses. Charlaine Harris has taken a barmaid in the deep south and given her a 'gift' and then added a mixed bag of supernaturals for Sookie to stumble across and pal around with. One of the advantages of coming to a series late is that I don't have to wait months or years for the next book in the series to become available. There are currently 9 published books in the series and this is only number 3. Woo Hoo!
Club Dead finds Sookie facing life without her Vampire boyfriend Bill. After being a little cold to Sookie, Bill turns up missing. Seems he has an old flame who may not be the nicest person in the world. Bill's Boss Eric asks for Sookie's help locating Bill using her 'gift' of being able to read 'normal' humans minds. With the help of some otherworldly friends, a little luck, meeting some Vampire 'royalty', and maybe an Elvis sighting or two, Sookie locates Bill. But, should she rescue him or sharpen up a stake for him herself? You'll have to read this to find out.
As I stated earlier, I really liked this book and wouldn't hesitate to recommend it as a fun read. It works as a stand-alone book, but it is better if read as part of the series. While you would understand the story without any other background, knowing the players and their history together makes it an even more enjoyable read. The first two books in the series are Dead until Dark and Living Dead in Dallas. If you decide to try this series, I also enjoyed both of them as well.
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5 comments:
well, you've jumped right into the challenge! lol..
I'm not a vampire person though I did enjoy a little book called Gil's All Fright Diner as a vampire turns out to be a reluctant hero..yeah it's comical so I could do that lol..
I've started my second book for this quest also!
I am all for people reading books except the authors are not there so you can blog back and forth, but sometimes the good reads are worth it! But you know I find I have gotten hooked on the immediacy of the crisises in blogs. I mean what was supposed to be a normal surgery can turn into a life or drama matter over night. I now think bloggers are capable of writing---"I am blogging with my last breath, goodbye.' You used to not be able to read those kind of things unless it was explorers lost at sea or frozen in the ice and logging until they were dead." At first though, it took some getting used to I must say. I had to cut back on some blog reading. I also had to learn to distance myself emotionally. I dreamed one night I was with one ailing blogger in her bedroom swatting ants and the more I swatted the more appeared. So I have been a little better through the next few operations. I have gotten out of their bedrooms so to speak! Gerry
Sounds like a good series. I'm a fan of vampire books. I couldn't put down the Twilight series.
I have had some of the same thoughts you had before reading this, so maybe I actually would like this series.
you have to read all of them, they are addictive. I love this series.
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