Living Dead in Dallas by Charlaine Harris

Living Dead in Dallas (Sookie Stackhouse, #2)

by Charlaine Harris

The second novel in #1 New York Times bestselling author Charlaine Harris’s “addictively entertaining”(Locus) Sookie Stackhouse series—the inspiration for the HBO® original series True Blood.

Even though Sookie has her own vampire to look out for her—her red-hot, cold-blooded boyfriend, Bill Compton—she has to admit that the bloodsuckers did save her life. So when one of the local Undead asks the cocktail waitress for a favor, she feels like she owes them.

Soon, Sookie’s in Dallas using her telepathic skills to search for a missing vampire. She’s supposed to interview certain humans involved. There’s just one condition: The vampires must promise to behave—and let the humans go unharmed. Easier said than done. All it takes is one delicious blonde and one small mistake for things to turn deadly...

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3 of 5 stars

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Living Dead in Dallas is an interesting sequel. We have more vampires, we are introduced to Maenards and the horrible things they do and the vampire hating church is introduced.

The maenard’s seem like interesting creatures. In this world they’re incredibly old, powerful and flighty creatures. A maenard attacks Sookie as a warning to Eric, the scratch of a maenard cannot be cured by vampire’s blood so Sookie finds herself in a lot of trouble.

It looks like Sookie and Bill’s relationship is rocky in this book, I found this interesting They fought a lot and the way Bill acted had me really annoyed at him but at the same time I did feel like Sookie handled the situations a little immaturish-ly or perhaps naïvely? I think I’m already on the Eric bandwagon…

Bill is sent to Dallas and Sookie is summoned with him. Eric has ‘loaned’ Sookie out to another area that are in need of her telepathic powers. Sookie agree’s to help out but only on the condition that no human’s get’s hurt. Keeping the vampire’s to this promise is something Sookie is hell bent on so when the vampires ask her to help them find a vampire of theirs that went missing by questioning the last humans that saw him, she triple checks that the human’s will not be killed after ward.

Living Dead in Dallas was a fun read. I expected to like it a lot more that the first book in the series but I found the first book seemed to be more enjoyable and memorable to me. This one was entertaining to read and I did like, just not as much as I liked the first one.

Overall, I enjoyed this book and can’t wait to read the third in the series!

Living Dead in Dallas is an entertaining Sookie Stackhouse book that keeps you wondering what’s going on and how it’s going to turn out.

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