All Together Dead

All Together Dead

by Charlaine Harris
Rating: ****

The 7th Sookie Stackhouse novel finds the characters in a post-Katrina Louisiana. Sookie is on her way to a very important central U.S. vampire summit to help out the Queen of Lousiana. Sookie's job: listen in a the humans involved at the summit the summit to find out who is up to no good. On top of all this, something is up with Sookie's new flame, Quinn the weretiger, and she's learning how to control her mind reading skills when Barry the Bellboy returns.

I've got to give it up to Charlain Harris: the woman balances so many characters in these books and she does it with great ease. It was so interesting to read a book about characters that were so close to Hurricane Katrina. Obviously with them being from Louisiana Harris had to write the hurricane it and she did it magnificently. As always, I can't wait to read the next book in her series!!

Dead as a Doornail

Dead as a Doornail

by Charlaine Harris
Rating: ****

Yep, another Sookie Stackhouse book. Sorry. I have two more after this one and then I believe I have to wait till the spring for the latest addition. It's been awhile since I've had to wait for a book to come out. Ah well.

Dead as a Doornail follows Sookie as she tries to find a sniper that is targeting shapeshifters. In fact, some of the shifter community think that Sookie's brother may be to blame and so she has to race against the clock (or full moon) to prove her brother innocent. In addition to the sniping issues, ANOTHER fan of Sookie comes along at the very end, Quinn, who is a weretiger (yeah, they're not wereWOLVES unless they actually become WOLVES).

I think it's truly amazing how many men (well, half men, in this case) are into Sookie. The woman has multiple vampires, shifters AND a werewolf all into her. The girl has GAME. The funny thing, though, is that it doesn't ever seem to go to her head. Throughout all these novels my favorite thing about Sookie is that she stays true to herself. You feed her BS and she's not going to deal with it. Let's just say that Sookie is not one of those girls that you boys could sweet talk and she'd be ready to jump into bed with you. Or... maybe she WOULD jump into bed with you but that doesn't mean she'll fall in love.

Ah! Can't wait for honeymoon reading to begin!

More soon!