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Club Dead (A Sookie Stackhouse Vampire
Mystery) by Charlaine Harris check out website: www.orbitbooks.co.uk
This is another story about Sookie Stackhouse, sometime cocktail waitress and occasional involuntary vampire staker. She likes to choose the vampires she hangs around with these days. She chooses Bill as her long undead companion. Despite being a mind reader, she finds his is closed to her and enjoys the silence. After her previous adventure, Sookie is back behind the bar at Merlotte's with no thought of going anywhere else.
She's happy in her strange relationship but now Bill has gone all cold on her(don't go there) and she fears he has another lover. What will she do to get him back? There are even more complications. Bill gets Vamp-knapped and Sookie, despite her reservations, must look for him. She is hooked up with Alcide who takes her to Club Dead in Jackson, Mississippi, where she may get news of Bill. But what's this? Alcide has some intriguing qualities of his own. She hopes in vain that he might be normal but Alcide likes to howl at the moon and is allergic to silver, other than that he's all man and she is in a vulnerable state. Still, if she stays with him at least she won't need a pet. The closer Sookie gets, the less she likes what she is hearing about Bill's affair with another vampire. She also has to maintain a motherly eye on her vamp bodyguard who is a resurrected pop legend known to himself and others only as Bubba. He has a tendency to croon the occasional ballad that makes you love him tender. It's a funny tale in an increasingly saturated market. It seems very popular right now to write about sassy girls who hang around vampires and the sale of these kinds of books must be helped by the amazing popularity of Buffy. Harris has placed her heroine into an offbeat pulp detective novel with the addition of various supernatural inhabitants. Sometimes it works and sometimes it feels like it has all been bolted together from a kit. I hate the cover but that's because I prefer my sexy vampires to look like Angel. It's not a plot-fest but it is entertaining and quite a quick read. I wouldn't rush to buy another though. Sue Davies
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OTHER REVIEWS - June 2004
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Gasping
for a drink? You can get pretty much what you like at Club Dead.
It has its own kind of rules and a very particular clientele.
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