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Living
Dead in Dallas
Series: Sookie Stackhouse series, book 2
Pub: 2002, Gollancz
Author: Charlaine Harris
Cat: paranormal fiction (mystery)
Format: paperback (mid); 279 pp w/ 11
chapters
Age Range: Adults
Synopsis
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 blood-suckers 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...
Thoughts
So,
this is the second one that I read off my face on prescription med, back in ’09
when I was in hospital. My brother bough me this as a ‘glad you’re not dead’,
gift because mum had bought me the first one. 
My
first thoughts on it, if I can remember correctly (most of that time, I really
can’t) was that I like it better than the first one. I think this book was the reason
I decided to keep on reading it, though it still had Sookie who annoyed me a
little, with what she say that is contradicted to what she wears. But that’s
already been bitched about, so we’ll move on. The second is that Bill is still
her love life and as I’ve stated before, and feel that I have to again—I’m not
a fan, at all.
So
this book has two main story lines. One about her co-worker and a sex ring
where he was last seen. So Sookie—taking Eric, because Bill was out of town—goes
and figures it out, along with what the creature that cut up her back in the
beginning wants with her.
The
second is about another vampire is having some problems and Eric lends them
Sookie to figure it out, which leads her to a Church and a vampire who wants to
end it all and has been convince to take as many with him as possible. I’m not
going to go into it any more than that, because, let’s face it, that’s what Season
two is about, and pretty much what it had in it.—but don’t judge this by that
shit ass session (sorry if you liked it, but man....I thought it was
kill-me-now bad!!)
This
one, dose however, show you a little more of Eric, of what vampire blood does
to Sookie—and I think all humans. I liked it mostly because Bill wasn’t there
for a big chunk, and I really don’t like him as a character, even though I get
it, and I don’t think it would make any sense (even without what’s to come—and I
wouldn’t remember this too much, because it’s not a surprise that I will reveal
to you in a review, it’s one you much read to learn) if she had made him any
different, his time in history and the man he was, it just wouldn’t make sense.
But it doesn’t mean I have to like him just because I understand, does it?
Series
Dead Until Dark, [tb],
Club Dead, Dead to the World, Dead as a Doornail, Definitely Dead, All Together
Dead, From Dead to Worse, Dead and Gone, Dead in the Family, Dead Reckoning,
Deadlocked
☼☼☼
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