Sookie’s got just a month, before the next full moon, to find out who wants her brother dead – and to stop the fiend!Sookie Stackhouse enjoys her life, mostly. She’s a great cocktail waitress in a fun bar; she has a love life, albeit a bit complicated, and most people have come to terms with her telepathy. The problem is, Sookie wants a quiet life – but things just seem to happen to her and her … to her and her friends.
Now her brother Jason’s eyes are starting to change: he’s about to turn into a were-panther for the first time. She can deal with that, but her normal sisterly concern turns to cold fear when a sniper sets his deadly sights on the local changeling population. She afraid not just because Jason’s at risk, but because his new were-brethren suspect Jason may be the shooter.
Sookie has until the next full moon to find out who’s behind the attacks – unless the killer decides to find her first.
The Sookie Stackhouse books are delightful Southern Gothic supernatural mysteries, starring Sookie, the telepathic cocktail waitress, and a cast of increasingly colourful characters, including vampires, werewolves and things that really do go bump in the night.
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The fifth in the Sookie series, so an intro for those who have never heard of the series.
Sookie is a telepath. Other humans think she is mad, but the supernatural creatures all seem to adore her and have a need to have sex with her. And where I say need, I mean every male she meets, and yet every human disdains her. Go figure.
The next book is apparently called “Sookie and the stray dogs that follow her everywhere and try to hump her!”. Actually, it’s not, it’s called Definitely Dead. Still, I do have to question why every supernatural male needs to have sex with her. Maybe that will become clear further in the series?
So the plot of this one, very complex and convoluted, as always with this author. Someone is shooting Shifters, Were creatures basically, and since Sookie knows every male shifter out their then she gets involved.
Actually, there are two plots as always. The first is someone is shooting shifters, and then the second is who is Charles Twining and does he make tea? (I will let you try and work out that joke)
It was the usual weak but fun plot. I find I enjoy reading these because I can start by taking my brain out for a rest and just read the words. Sookie will be drooled over, and she will keep saying No! but occasionally say Yes! Followed by something along the lines of Supernatural Sex is Best!!!!!
Although how can she tell since she has never slept with a human?
Anyway, it is fun and feels more like a gossip session than an actual story as always, so it is worth a read if you like your soap operas obvious and sexy.
This series is so much fun! I love the characters! They are witty hilarious & down to earth. My only complaint is h how steamy & intense the sex scenes were. Just my opinion though
Loved the whole series
read
Sookie series way before it came out on TV and loved it so much had to use ssc to buy books. Please read from beginning. You’ll love them
Eric Northman is back to his annoying over-confident self. He is persistently desperate to find out what happened between him and Sookie, while he was cursed. He feels as if he is about to remember something important and familiar, but cannot.
Sookie is used to hearing and keeping other people’s secrets, but now she is harboring secrets of her own. The self-defense/murder, (depending on which way you look at it), of Debbie Pelt concerns and worries her. Luckily, Eric took the bullet intended for her, got rid of the body and her car, so she can honestly and truthfully say that she does not know where Debbie is. How is she to keep this secret when two private investigators hired by Debbie’s family, come to Merlotte’s and her home, asking all kinds of questions? If Eric gains his memories back, the secret of Debbie’s death and disappearance will not be hers alone. There is also the knowledge of the best sex Eric and Sookie has ever had! If Eric finds out, he will never let her live it down, (until they do it again so he can remember and experience again being with her.)
The Weres in the area are being shot. (view spoiler)And is someone shooting at Sookie now? Did they mistake her for a Were, or are they a Were seeking justice for Debbie? But who could know unless someone saw Eric?
Smelling of vamps, weres, shifters, and faeries, Sookie reeks as she also tries to save her friend Tina from the clutches of the possessive and abusive vampire Mickey.
Finding out who the sniper is, is put in a distant second place when the book concludes with the final 50 pages of the powerful, frightening, and emotional final conflict, deciding the new pack leader of Hotshot. (view spoiler)Bill has been showing up at Merlotte’s with his new date, trying to make Sookie jealous, and succeeding at it. No matter how badly Bill or Sookie want to be together again, she knows and tells him that it will never be as it was before. Her options with Eric are not the most promising either, now that he is back to acting like his old self once again. What kind of future and relationship will she have with a vampire compared to a Were? With either choice, Eric or Alcide, Sookie’s luck could and most likely run out, ending up Dead As A Doornail.
If you read this series and watch the show then you know they are completely different worlds. I like both about equally. I like the vibe of True Blood better but, I like the plots in the books better. But overall, I’d recommend a lot of other authors over Harris because the plots and characters are just straight up dumb.
I loved all the books in the Sookie Stackhouse series.
Love this series.
Don’t judge these books by the HBO series, they are completely different thank goodness. The series turned grotesque, the books never did. Sookie and her friends even the paranormal creatures tried to function in the world they had been given. Most tried not to be monsters or at least they tried for Sookie. The stories are always fun, the creatures either beguiling in ways or totally scary. I read every book and loved them all. I can’t say that about the series. Consider them completely different things and enjoy the books instead.
A friend and my oldest sister gave me Charlaine Harris, Sookie Stackhouse Series and I binge read them one after the other. They were fun to read and my friends and sister compared what we liked about the series.
I read this 2/2006
Part of a supernatural series, this builds action with more characters and nasty bad guys. Sookie finds out she isn’t just feeling paranoid! Will things ever get better? Read and enjoy.
“… and I just have to say I don’t like it. He was an asshole and now …… if they want to be friends fine. But I hope that’s as much that happens between them. *crossing fingers* This one I gave 4 out of 5 stars.”
Read more of this review here: https://frommetoyouvideophoto.blogspot.com/2009/12/you-got-me-runnin-baby-wild-at-heart.html
The fifth in the Sookie series, so an intro for those who have never heard of the series.
Sookie is a telepath. Other humans think she is mad, but the supernatural creatures all seem to adore her and have a need to have sex with her. And where I say need, I mean every male she meets, and yet every human disdains her. Go figure.
The next book is apparently called “Sookie and the stray dogs that follow her everywhere and try to hump her!”. Actually, it’s not, it’s called Definitely Dead. Still, I do have to question why every supernatural male needs to have sex with her. Maybe that will become clear further in the series?
So the plot of this one, very complex and convoluted, as always with this author. Someone is shooting Shifters, Were creatures basically, and since Sookie knows every male shifter out their then she gets involved.
Actually, there are two plots as always. The first is someone is shooting shifters, and then the second is who is Charles Twining and does he make tea? (I will let you try and work out that joke)
It was the usual weak but fun plot. I find I enjoy reading these because I can start by taking my brain out for a rest and just read the words. Sookie will be drooled over, and she will keep saying No! but occasionally say Yes! Followed by something along the lines of Supernatural Sex is Best!!!!!
Although how can she tell since she has never slept with a human?
Anyway, it is fun and feels more like a gossip session than an actual story as always, so it is worth a read if you like your soap operas obvious and sexy.
Liked the book but dont buy her books to much sex, if i could get her books without the sex would buy
Like the entire series…I have them all…and told my friends.
Love this series of books much better than the TV series
Loved it.
I really enjoyed Dead as a Doornail (Sookie Stackhouse book 5). Sookie’s adventures and misadventures is still action packed as always. I am enjoying the old characters still involved in Sookie’s stories and am eager to learn more about the new characters. As always, I am ready for book 6!
I loved all of the Charlaine Harris, Sookie Stackhouse, books. This is #5 in the series, so I suggest they be read in order.
I really enjoyed every book in this series. Fantastic writing.