Dead to the World (Sookie Stackhouse, Book 4)
by Charlaine Harris
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Author: Charlaine HarrisEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2009-10-06
ISBN: 0441018289
Number of pages: 320
Publisher: Ace Trade
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Book Review: The Barmaid Adventures Continue
Summary: 5 Stars
Hello again, my fellow Truebloods. If you're reading this, it means I have advanced one step further in my goal to read the entire Southern Vampire Mysteries and this latest installment, like all the ones before it, did not disappoint. I voraciously read from beginning to end, cursing any and every interruption I experienced, so immersed in the story was I. This is the mark of a truly good book on my judgment scale of interesting and entertaining narratives, "Dead To The World" tipping the scalepan high with sex, danger, intrigue (the intrigue oft comes from the sex and the danger!), jealousy, magic, love, friendship and the paranormal. No "dead" weight here and the following summation will more than explain why.
Bill is but a ghost in this portion of the Sookie Stackhouse saga; off to Peru for more work on a project that began in Book 3, his absence finds his former girlfriend and waitress with a side order of resentment for his infidelity on a heaping platter of heartbreak - call her "once bitten, twice shy" (yes, I dare to pun twice in one sentence). Though still at odds with her gentile Civil War-era undead lover, she is quickly distracted from the tumult of her romantic life when her brother Jason goes missing not long after the New Year. On top of that, she finds a shirtless and shoeless Eric running aimlessly down a county road while driving home from Merlotte's and when she persuades him to get in her car and come home with her, she discovers he has no memory of who he is. Contacting his associates at Fangtasia, she is informed by Pam that a nomadic clan of witches have put a hex on him and are now tenaciously searching for him, Hallow (their leader) especially bent on possessing him. Determined to keep him hidden from those who intend him harm while trying to uncover Jason's whereabouts, Sookie is queerly enamored by Eric's vulnerability and gentlemanly approach (a far cry from his naturally flagrant and aggressive nature) and the attraction between the statuesque blonde bloodsucker and the quirky barmaid reaches its peak.
Charlaine Harris keeps the ball rolling in Bon Temps, Shreveport, and beyond, giving her heroine a break this time by making good on Sookie's New Year's resolution to avoid physical injury. But there are plenty of other good scuffles to be had if not at Sookie's expense, particularly the climactic battle at the end between the Shreveport werewolves, the Area Five vampires and local Wiccans against the evil coven, a blood-soaked skirmish that keeps in check with what readers of the series have come to expect. It's been made abundantly clear - and still is - that Sookie is a smokin' specimen as far as the male species is concerned. She gets eyes as well as several offers, but it is a detriment to the author when the implication that Sookie is the only woman in the bayou worth pursuing becomes a cornerstone of her character development. Nonetheless, her supreme physical charisma aids in adding to the sexual tension and what reader with a healthy (ahem) appetite would completely rebuke that? Throw in Debbie Pelt (Alcide Herveaux's insanely jealous werelynx girlfriend from Book 3) and you've got a Cajun-spiced recipe that invigorates the mental palette with a winning combination of excitement and peril. She also adds to the cast of characters and if the first three books didn't introduce enough colorful people (vampires, werewolves, shapeshifters, a telepath, a flamboyant homosexual fry cook, genocidal religious zealots, a maenad), "Dead To The World" adds to it with witches who are werewolves AND have a taste for vampire blood, a secret community of were-panthers and - drum roll please - a fairy. It just keeps getting better and better and this is only Book 4 of what officially became a 13-book series this year.
Bottom line: Exciting from beginning to end, "Dead To The World" will hardly disappoint those who have been following the series thus far and will most definitely have them going on eagerly to Book 5 (Dead As A Doornail). If you crave outrageous, quirky, lust-filled, adventurous stories heavily laced with the paranormal that are steeped in the unrelenting humidity and diverse culture of the Deep South, look no further - the Southern Vampire Mysteries will sate your escapist yearnings.
Summary of Dead to the World (Sookie Stackhouse, Book 4)
When cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse sees a naked man on the side of the road, she doesn't just drive on by. Turns out the poor thing hasn't a clue who he is, but Sookie does. It's Eric the vampire?but now he's a kinder, gentler Eric. And a scared Eric, because whoever took his memory now wants his life.
Watch a QuickTime trailer for the HBO original series True Blood.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 millennium.
One of the best-known and best writers of the new American mythology is Charlaine Harris. Dead to the World is the fourth novel in her Anthony Award-winning Southern Vampire series. It continues the story of psychic waitress Sookie Stackhouse, who has fallen out with her undead lover, Bill. Bill has no sooner departed for Peru, than Sookie finds the head vampire, Eric, running naked and terrified through the rural night. She helps Eric, and discovers his memory has been destroyed by a coven of unscrupulous, astonishingly powerful witches, newly arrived in her small Louisiana town, and offering a huge reward for Eric. Sookie tries to hide Eric, but her brother sees him--and immediately disappears. And Sookie finds herself caught in a war among witches, vampires, and werewolves. --Cynthia Ward
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