Tag: charlaine harris
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Book Review – Definitely Dead
#6 in the Sookie Stackhouse series. Sookie finds herself in the Big Easy after the final death of her cousin Hadley, who happened to be the vampire consort to the Queen of Louisiana. It seems that Hadley had some big secrets, that unfortunately, put Sookie in danger while trying to clean up her estate. Two…
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Book Review – Dead as a Doornail
Book #5 of Sookie Stackhouse series. A shooter is on the loose in Bon Temps, and it appears they are targeting shifters. Could this be related to someone catching Sookie’s house on fire? Or is there something even bigger going on? While Sookie tries to do a little investigating of her own, she finds herself…
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Book Review – Dead to the World
#4 in the Sookie Stackhouse series. Driving home from work late at night, Sookie finds the vampire Erik Northman running down a secluded road, nearly naked and very confused. She picks him up, only to discover that Erik is not quite his usual, arrogant self. With Erik’s memory gone, some new badass witches in town,…
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Book Review – Club Dead
#3 in the Sookie Stackhouse series. After some odd interactions between them, Sookie learns that Bill has suddenly disappeared. It appears he was coffin-napped while traveling and Erik enlists Sookie’s help in finding him. Sookie teams up with the werewolf Alcide Herveaux and together they head to Jackson, Mississippi to launch an investigation that takes…
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Book Review – Living Dead in Dallas
#2 in the Sookie Stackhouse series Continuing on with my re-read reviews… Sookie heads to Dallas on a vampire job and finds herself in a whole mess of trouble. Meanwhile back home, an unusual murder has taken place and its not clear who is to blame, so upon returning home from her scary Dallas trip,…
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Book Review – Dead Until Dark
#1 in the Sookie Stackhouse Series. I’m doing a cozy re-read of the Sookie books and have never wrote reviews for them before so I will this time around. Sookie Stackhouse, barmaid, sister, granddaughter, finds herself wrapped up in a murder mystery involving vampires, a serial killer, and other surprises. When women her brother Jason…
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Book Review – The Serpent in Heaven
Book #4 of the Gunnie Rose series has a change in main character but not a change in pace. Felicia, half-sister to Lizbeth, is full of secrets that come crashing to the surface in this fast-paced story set in San Diego, the capital city of the Holy Russian Empire. She must navigate powerful family ties,…
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Library Week Challenge – October 16-22, 2022
I’m a huge supporter of the public library system. While I do purchase most of the books that I read, I try to utilize the library to check out materials whenever possible because I think that libraries provide a necessary community benefit and need consistent, ongoing patrons to keep receiving funding. In addition to offering…
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Friday Favorites – Books With Witches, Wizards, And Warlocks
In theme with October’s Halloween-ness, this week we’re listing our favorite Books with Witches, Wizards, and Warlocks. Some of my all-time favorite books are listed this week! Let’s join @Functionally Fictional and the rest of the book-blogging-community. Be sure to visit her blog and join in on the fun! Ilya “Eli” Savarov from the Gunnie Rose Series…
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Friday Favorites – Characters That Just Make You Smile
In my long history of reading adventures, I’ve met a lot of characters, some good, some bad, and some that stick to us like glue with bubbling personalities, who are witty, charismatic, and devastatingly charming. We fall in love with them through the happy moments and become attached to them based on how they handle…