Living Dead in Dallas
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The second novel in #1 New York Times bestselling author Charlaine Harris’s “addictively entertaining” (Locus) Sookie Stackhouse series—the inspiration for the HBO® original series True Blood.
Even though Sookie has her own vampire to look out for her—her red-hot, cold-blooded boyfriend, Bill Compton—she has to admit that the bloodsuckers did save her life. So when one of the local Undead asks the cocktail waitress for a favor, she feels like she owes them.
Soon, Sookie’s in Dallas using her telepathic skills to search for a missing vampire. She’s supposed to interview certain humans involved. There’s just one condition: The vampires must promise to behave—and let the humans go unharmed. Easier said than done. All it takes is one delicious blonde and one small mistake for things to turn deadly...
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Sookie Stackhouse is a 18-book series with 13 primary works first released in 2001 with contributions by Charlaine Harris.
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Just as entertaining as the first, with even more supernatural creatures introduced. I love the maenad that emerged from the woods of northern Louisiana!
Living Dead in Dallas is an entertaining book but poorly constructed story-wise, essentially telling two stories, one after the other, but the first being far superior. The plot involving Sookie aiding the Dallas vampires is very dramatic and interesting, but as soon as it ends you might as well put the book down. There are a few good moments in the last third - such as Eric in Lycra pants - but for the most part there isn't much to be gained from it even from just an entertainment standpoint.
I'm not sure really what to say about this book. My thoughts about it are no doubt tainted by the fact that I read the first book, then watched the first season on HBO and then read this book. The show and the book is just different enough that everything kind of blurs together and it's hard to remember what happened where.
The book just seemed like the same characters, but not a continuation of the first book like I expected. I mean Sookie went through so much in the first book that I thought that there would be more referrals back to those situations, but there were not. Also, how many times does Sookie have to get beat up? We get the point...
I guess I was just disappointed by this book, but I had high hopes for it. It wasn't a bad book by any means, just a disappointment to me.
