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Living Dead In Dallas (A Sookie Stackhouse
Vampire Mystery) by Charlaine Harris check out website: www.OrbitBooks.co.uk and www.TimeWarnerBooks.co.uk
Eric's vampires help to cure Sookie of her injuries and then told about her mission to Dallas. 'On Loan' from the Louisiana nest to the Dallas horde, she has to use her telepathic skills to find out the fate of one of their 'brothers' who has mysteriously gone missing and hasn't been seen or heard from for five days.
Even before all this happens, the much appreciated and liked gay short order cook, Lafayette, is found dead in the patrol car of Andy Bellefleur. Will Sookie help him to prove his innocence and find the missing vamp? Only time will tell, but you can bet there'll be 'fangs' aplenty! Unfortunately, Charlaine Harris' second outing with the Sookie Stackhouse Vampire Mysteries is a pale anaemic shadow of the first for various reasons. The characters have not moved on much from the first book. They are under-developed and shallow. Sookie still questions whether her gift is a blessing or a curse to the tune of her own simpering sobs. Sookie is one minute modest and shy, the next curt and flirtatious making Harris' main character appear to have a serious split-personality problem. This wouldn't be such a bad thing if the main character weren't the voice we hear continually, being written solely in first person. The story is hindered by clumsy dialogue, forced out at times for the sake of speaking and coupled with the shallow characters, the book is stale and bland compared to its predecessor. The plot is much the same as the previous, making the whole series an exercise in formulaic writing rather than an adventure in exploring the lengths and depths o | |||
Sookie
Stackhouse, now indebted to the vampire nest headed by Eric the
Viking-esque vamp, has been called in to take up a task. Before
she can even get to the vampires, she is attacked late one night
by a clawed being in the woods and poisoned by the beast.