Summary:
The second in the Sookie Stackhouse series.
Sookie is a telepath, dating a vampire, and working for a shapeshifter. She has become a usually-unwilling detective for the Louisiana town of Bon Temps. In this second installment, she is ordered to go to Dallas and help the Dallas vampires find one of their own who has gone missing, while still trying to figure out who killed a co-worker/friend. The HBO series, True Blood, is based on these books.
Thoughts:
Not bad. It was better than some of the books I've read, sure, but I was continually comparing the book to the TV show. It killed off a fun character in the series, so I was disappointed about that. And the TV show delved more into some things that the book just barely glossed over. It's different, and I don't know that I like it better than the show version of events.
The writing is good, though. There's not a ton of cursing or obscene discussion of sexual situations, which I appreciate. I also found myself liking the not-boyfriend vampire more though, and it seemed that Harris was trying to get the readers to like him a little more. Though I could be crazy. Who knows.
Could be worse.
Pages: 291
Genre: Mystery/Fantasy
Grade: B-/C+
Would I Read Again?: I won't reread, but it's not bad enough to completely avoid.
6 down, 44 to go.
Buffy: Tales of the Slayer 2 or Before You Leap next. Not sure which... we'll see. Maybe both!
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