Club Dead by Charlaine Harris

[slowfox]

Well, suddenly we get hints of an even deeper hierarchy to this vamp business.

Bill (Sookie's vampire squeeze) is working on a super secret project for the Queen of Louisiana (unbeknownst to his immediate boss, Eric, who also answers to the Queen of Louisiana). Unfortunately, Bill gets kidnapped by the King of Texas.

Sookie is teamed up with Alcide, a werewolf with connections to the regal vampire clan, and alongside some UST, some dead werewolves and some torture, we get ourselves a story. Bill's project turns out to be something like a Facebook for vamps, which even I think would be an astoundingly bad idea for a group of individuals who value privacy and mystique so much, but Bill (and his Queen) think it's just the coolest concept ever.

And for reasons never truly explained, Bill has to keep this secret from Sookie, which doesn't help their relationship much.

I'm not sure if I'm supposed to like Alcide - he seems a bit like the Charlie Weasley of this world - daring, brave, rugged but not pretty pretty. I'd just have liked him to have been a little less perfect (werewolfness doesn't seem to ratea negative here)...

I was... surprised by the ending, although the book seems pretty clear how things are going to pan out from the opening chapter, maybe I shouldn't have been. Again, though, Sookie really gets knocked about a bit in this one, and I'm hoping that she gets an easier ride soon.

Somehow I doubt it though.

Still fun reads :-)

Comments

Re: Sookietastic

[slowfox]

It's Dead to the World next, and that one is an absolute scream, so whichever way you can you really really need to read it.

I was disturbed by the amount of punishment meted out to the Sook: she holds up, but I was hoping for an easier ride for her - at least physically - in the subsequent instalments.

It jars on me a little that he behaves in the this way, it's seems a contrast to his previous devotion and mainstreaming.

This does get explained a little later on in the series, so although it jars oddly here it's consistent with the Sookieverse.

Re: Sookietastic

[carolanne5]

that one is an absolute scream, so whichever way you can you really really need to read it ...

My addiction needs no encouragement I assure you! It's good to hear the standard keeps up in the next installments. The law of diminishing returns is all to common in fantasy series (thinks of Dune and shudders at the horror).

Sadly I did manage to spoil myself yesterday in the book shop, I picked up one of the more recent books, to checkout the reviews, and read the words 'weretiger boyfriend'. Nearly swore out loud in the book shop at catching such a spoiler when I've been so carefully avoiding your reviews and any True Blood conversations.