About this title: < b>A New York Times Bestselling Author< br> An Anthony Award-winning Author< /b>< P>There's only one vampire Sookie Stackhouse is involved with (at least voluntarily) and that's Bill. But recently he's been a little distant - in another state, distant. His sinister and sexy boss has an idea where to look. But when Sookie finally finds Bill - caught in an act of serious betrayal - she's not sure whether to save him . . . or sharpen some stakes.
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Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Ace Books
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780441010516ISBN:0441010512
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 258 p. Sookie Stackhouse Novels (Paperback). Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Ace Books
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780441010516ISBN:0441010512
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Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Ace Books
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780441010516ISBN:0441010512
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 258 p. Sookie Stackhouse Novels (Paperback). Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Ace Books
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780441010516ISBN:0441010512
Description: Fine. No dust jacket as issued. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 258 p. Sookie Stackhouse Novels (Paperback). Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Ace Books
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780441010516ISBN:0441010512
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. NEAR FINE! Bright and colorful front cover. No distracting marks, store stamps, or creases in spine. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 258 p. Sookie Stackhouse Novels (Paperback). Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Ace Books
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780441010516ISBN:0441010512
Description: New. No dust jacket as issued. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 258 p. Southern Vampire Mysteries. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Ace Books
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780441010516ISBN:0441010512
Description: New. No dust jacket as issued. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 258 p. Sookie Stackhouse Novels (Paperback). Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Ace Books
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780441010516ISBN:0441010512
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"Once again, Harris has continued to improve from one book to the next, thought it still has its flaws. The story starts a little slow, and gets monotonous at times, but it picks up toward the end, making the overall book pretty enjoyable. These books truly are like candy for the brain.
I was very pleased to find that Bill was missing in action for most of this installment, but despite the reprieve, he still managed to inspire a whole new level of loathing on my part. I hope that Harris doesn't allow Sookie and Bill to repair their dysfunctional relationship in future books as I would be forced to stop reading in fear of exciting my gag reflex.
It was also appealing to learn more about Harris's supernatural world as details about the vamp universe remains at large, and info about shifters and weres remain vague at best, which I suspect is Harris's way of making stuff up without us being able to call her on it. Kind of a genius tactic on her part really.
The introduction of Alcide into the series was a bit annoying; does every guy have to fall in love with Sookie? And I physically cringed when Sookie talked about how great he was simply due to the fact that he had a "man" job, drove a truck and used good manners. Hello, I don't like Nicholas Spark books, if I wanted to read about bland characters, I'd go out and procure a copy of Dear John. However, despite Alcide being a card board cutout of all things dull, Eric was absolutely delicious and as always, was the main cause for my enjoyment of this book.
Sookie is still painstakingly daft as she continues to spend more than a few pages devoted entirely to her clothes and hair. I was pleased that she only mentioned her breasts once, though I suspect they were replaced with her nails as she mentions them ten times too many. They are painted gold by the way, in case you were wondering."
"I have read all the books in the Sookie Stackhouse series. Could not wait until I could get to the next one. I would have the books numbered and ready to read. Can't wait until the next one is in my hands. If you want to get away for a few hours just read these books."
"Spunky Sookie Stackhouse is off to Mississippi this time, to rescue her beloved undead Bill from the grips of the vampire king of Mississippi. The hitch is that she's really, really mad at him, as he got captured because he fell under the spell of an old vampire flame. With the help of hunky werewolf, Sookie saves the day and saves her man.
These books are light-hearted and fun, quick reads, but they really kind of drive me batty sometimes. Sookie's only slightly shy of being a Mary Sue, what with her perfect looks, her uncontrollable attractiveness to almost all supernatural beings. She does have some flaws, and she does end up getting her ass kicked a lot, but for some reason she's lacking dimensionality for me. Actually, the character that I think has the most dimensionality is Eric. Bill just sort of seems like a blank page to me, like we're just supposed to love him because Sookie does, but I don't even get Sookie half the time, so that doesn't work for me. I do think that the end of this book creates an opportunity for Harris to really develop Sookie and deal with her emotional state after everything that's happened, without the interference of the Vamps."
"Yes, I'm still reading this series. Great literature? Hell, no. An enjoyable, sort of mindless read, sure. There are parts that I find very funny, such as Sookie using her "word of the day" calendar to improve her vocabulary and the part where the Viking vampire Eric mentions that he took English as a second language in a community college course in the 70's. That sort of stuff is pretty humorous. The parts that annoy me are the writer's fashion sense. It kills me when I read her description of Sookie being all dressed up in bright red satin, with matching red fingernails and toenails, with (insert barf noises here) long sleeves you slide on separately. You know the author thinks that Sookie is incredibly stylish and beautiful, yet I keep having bad 80's fashion flashbacks. Also annoying are ALL the vampires. Seriously, they have no redeeming factors to me. I much preferred the werewolf character, Alcide, and I hope they keep up his relationship with Sookie in successive books. I am so over the vampire Bill. I couldn't figure out the attraction of him in the first place and in this book he cheats on Sookie. Puh-lease. He is so dead to me. (pun intended)."
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