Living Dead in Dallas
 | Average Customer Rating: Recommend When a vampire asks Sookie Stackhouse to use her telepathic skills to find another missing vampire, she agrees under one condition: the bloodsuckers must promise to let the humans go unharmed. Product details and pricing info |
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158 Customer Reviews Posted
- What a Heroine!
- We hit the ground running in the second Sookie Stackhouse novel, which builds well on the first one. As a reader, I am a chicken (couldn't get through the second Lee Child novel, for example) and a particularly scary scene in Living Dead in Dallas made me set the novel down for a few days & wonder if I'd ever get back to it. I did, & I'm glad I did, but I have to warn fellow chickens that there is quite a body count in this one. The love triangle between Sookie, Bill, and Eric is electric & original. I was really struck by Sookie's temerity and humor. The novel widens its cast of mythical and weird characters. Charlaine Harris's writing is beautifully crafted and she KNOWS how to manage a plot.
- 2008-11-28, 0 of 0 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Great Series!
- Charlaine Harris has become one of my favorite authors. This is a great series with a colorful cast of characters!
- 2008-11-26, 0 of 0 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Sookie Does Dallas!
- This is a cute second installment of the Sookie Stackhouse Mysteries. She goes with Bill to Dallas to help out Eric and the vampires since Bill has run for vampire office and is now closer to Eric than ever. Sookie still loves Bill but is attracted to Eric and has quite a variety of supernatural beings to contend with. Who knew? I thought they were all stories and fairy tales!
- 2008-11-26, 0 of 0 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- awesome...couldnt put it down
- i read the whole series, and i couldnt stop reading ! i just had to find out what happens next ! I read all 8 books in a week...they were addictive!
- 2008-11-24, 0 of 0 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Unsatisfying sequel to Dead Until Dark
- Living Dead in Dallas, the second book in the Southern Vampire series, picks up shortly after the events in Dead Until Dark (Southern Vampire Mysteries, No. 1). Sookie, a cocktail waitress, gets pulled into a dangerous tangle after one of her coworkers turns up as a murder victim. Evidence points to a particular culprit -- but he may not be the guilty party.
Meanwhile, Bill, Sookie's undead lover, has obliged himself to a group of vampires residing in Dallas -- and they demand Sookie's services as a telepath to help track down a vampire gone missing. Sookie complies, because she's with Bill -- his accessory? property? -- and all her ornery words aside, she lets herself be treated that way because she loves Bill.
Oh yeah, and then there's that terrifying creature in the woods who has no particular objection to tearing poor Sookie to shreds...
These disparate threads are tied together rather limply, unfortunately. Sookie is thrown into perilous situations, claws her way back out of them, is alternately rescued and neglected and pleasured by Bill, and... and the results are far less entertaining than Dead Until Dark.
Living Dead in Dallas goes to a dark place, with hate crimes, racism and homophobia swirling around, much to Sookie's chagrin. Scenes of mayhem are interspersed with scenes of lust and a few angsty relationship issues. Still, by the time we reach the bloody and weirdly unsatisfying climax, there isn't much to show for all the sax and violins.
This would have been a better book if Sookie had been less of a pawn and more of an active agent in her own story. I'm hoping for something better with the next in the series, Club Dead (Southern Vampire Mysteries, Book 3). - 2008-11-18, 0 of 0 people found this review helpful, Rated:
