Club Dead
by Charlaine Harris
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Author: Charlaine HarrisEdition: Paperback
Audio: German (Unknown); German (Original Language); German (Published)
Format: Import
Published: 2005-02-28
ISBN: 3937255168
Number of pages: 286
Publisher: Feder und Schwert
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Book Review: Another fine Sookie Stackhouse adventure
Summary: 5 Stars
I just finished the fifth novel in the Southern Vampire Mysteries aka the Sookie Stackhouse novels so I'm a little behind in my reviewing. In one of the great happy circumstances of my life I had independently decided to read this series of novels AND to watch the new Alan Ball TV series, not knowing that the latter was based on the former. I had already ordered the first four novels in the series (but had not yet received them) when I read that TRUE BLOOD was based on Charlaine Harris's books. Since then I've become a big fan of both. I'll start on the sixth Sookie Stackhouse book sometime this next week just as I eagerly await the third episode of TRUE BLOOD tomorrow night. And with the announcement that the show has already been renewed for a second season (it will come out this summer) and with Harris certain to write new novels (I won't read the eighth until it appears in paperback -- I like my books to match when possible -- this winter), Sookie Stackhouse seems destined to be around for quite some time to come.
The challenge in any series is how to keep expanding the world it describes without becoming too diffuse. CLUB DEAD follows LIVING DEAD IN DALLAS by moving much of the novel's action to another southern city, this time the much smaller metropolis of Jackson, Mississippi. Sookie has to go there in an attempt to find and rescue her vampire boyfriend Bill, who has been captured by parties unknown (though, of course, not by the end of the book). She is aided by a new character in the series, a were named Alcide Herveaux. I won't go into plot details, but the novel has a lot of fun and memorable scenes.
Bubba is back! The idea is that when Elvis died and was taken to the morgue, he wasn't quite dead. The coroner was actually a vampire and he attempted to revive the King as a vampire, but something went wrong in the attempt and he was left a tad feeble-minded. The vampires keep him under wraps, but occasionally he gets out into the public and people see him, accounting for the sightings. Bubba (he doesn't react well to being called Elvis) could have been a terrible character, but he is handled with just the right touch to be a lot of fun.
The main reason I continue to enjoy these books is the wonderful narrative voice that Harris given Sookie. As a reader you come to like and love Sookie, even if her life isn't going as smoothly and as wisely as she would like.
Because a lot of people are becoming aware of these books as a result of TRUE BLOOD, let me add that if you like the show, you will love the books. I think both are great in their own ways. I highly recommend both.
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