Review - A Touch of Dead

With all of the '30 Days of ME!' posts, one might not think that I have been reading recently.  The truth is that I've been reading a lot, both for myself and with my 2 year old, but more about her later.

I recently checked A Touch of Dead by Charlaine Harris out of the library.  This book is a compilation of the Sookie Stackhouse short stories that she has written.  Each story was a quick read and in the case of "Fairy Dust", the story filled in a hole in my knowledge of the fairy twins, Claudine and Claude.  I enjoyed this book and would recommend it to anyone who is reading the Sookie Stackhouse books, if they have not already done so.

Review - Dead in the Family

The latest Charlaine Harris' Sookie Stackhouse did not disappoint me.  I read it very quickly and had a great time with it.

After the Fairy War, Sookie is having a hard time springing back.  She was captured and tortured during the war, and she also lost loved ones.  On top of this, while she loves Eric, she is also angry at him.  She feels that he let her down since Bill was the one to rescue her from the fairies, not Eric.

While she is trying to heal, she also has to deal with the appearance of Eric's maker and the new vampire regime (Nevada) keeping a close eye on Eric.  Eric's maker's visit is causing problems for Eric as well as putting a drain on Sookie through the blood bond.  Sookie is also contending with Were politics within the Shreveport pack.

Will Sookie ever catch a break?  I'm interested in seeing what the future holds.

Review - Dead and Gone

Once again, I had a great time reading a Charlaine Harris' Sookie Stackhouse book.  I had a hard time putting this down once I started it.

This book had several things happening.  First, the Weres announced themselves to the world.  The people of Bon Temps need to decide how that announcement affects their view of Sam, Sookie's boss at Merlott's.

Then, the FBI shows up in Bon Temps to ask Sookie about the bombing in Rhodes.  If they determine that she has psychic abilities, Sookie is afraid that they will make her leave Bon Temps, something that she doesn't want to do.  Their conversation with Sookie is interrupted because of a murder of a Were.  If all that isn't enough, Sookie finds herself married to Eric and is drawn into the fae war.

While a reader can read this book without having read the earlier books, knowing the background from those books definitely makes this easier to follow.