Loading ...From Dead to Worse by Charlaine Harris
Each innovative book in the dynamic Sookie Stackhouse series brings the reader closer to understanding the complicated and unusual heroine of the series. Sookie is a telepath, with a weakness for “Vampire companionship.” Despite her negative experiences in the past, cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse manages to be tangled up once again with the supernatural and mysterious in this eighth book of the series.
Theoretically, Sookie is still partnered with were-tiger Quinn, who has a business that caters to vamps, but he is, well, shall we say, “missing in action?” Add this to Sookie’s concerns over whom her boss Sam is dating, her brother’s bizarre relationship with his were bride, and Sookie’s surfacing eye-opener about her relationships within fae society and you have a stressed and edgy Sookie! There is a feel of novellas with this book, since Ms. Harris is addressing many of the ongoing threads from previous books. However, as always, Charlaine has a firm hand on the reins, and doesn’t allow her characters to run amok.
We learn a lot about Sookie’s family history in this novel, and it is full of startling revelations, as are her friendships at Merlotte’s, (the bar where she is employed,) and her roommate Amelia, the witch from New Orleans. Within the life Sookie lives in Bon Temps, Louisiana are the threads of the life Sookie would like to lead, free of niggling attachments to Eric and Bill, the vampires, to the were community and to the shape shifters that invade her nightly life. Nevertheless, there are still traces of the creepy folks known as Fellowship of the Sun, her “fairy godmother” and an ongoing sense that there is something going on between Sookie and Sam. Do they know it yet? Charlaine Harris has once again done a compelling job of moving the Sookie story further, and leaving her readers gasping for more. A fantastic entry in the WWSD (What Will Sookie Do?) escapades.
Book Stats:
- Mass Market Paperback: 336 pages
- Publisher: Ace; Reprint edition (March 31, 2009)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0441017010
- ISBN-13: 978-0441017010
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Books in the Southern Vampire Series in the order they should be read:
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
Dead and Gone
Dead in the Family
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