From Dead to Worse (Southern Vampire Mysteries, Book 8) | Charlaine Harris

From Dead to Worse (Southern Vampire Mysteries, Book 8) | Charlaine Harris | Sookie and the Supes

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	From Dead to Worse (Southern Vampire Mysteries, Book 8) Charlaine Harris Ace Hardcover, 2008 - 368 pages average customer review:based on 176 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

New in the ?addicting? New York Times bestselling series featuring Sookie Stackhouse.

After the natural disaster of Hurricane Katrina and the manmade explosion at the vampire summit, everyone?human and otherwise?is stressed, including Louisiana cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse, who is trying to cope with the fact that her boyfriend Quinn has gone missing.

It?s clear that things are changing?whether the weres and vamps of her corner of Louisiana like it or not. And Sookie?Friend to the Pack and blood-bonded to Eric Northman, leader of the local vampire community?is caught up in the changes.

In the ensuing battles, Sookie faces danger, death, and once more, betrayal by someone she loves. And when the fur has finished flying and the cold blood finished flowing, her world will be forever altered.

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LOVED this book!

This is probably one of my favorite books of her series, although I really enjoyed them all!!! I was getting antsy the more I got through the book because I knew it was getting to the end and I wanted MORE!!!! Can't wait for the next one and am soooo glad Charlaine Harris is keeping this series going on and on!! Thank you, Charlaine!

Sookie and the Supes

This wasn't my favorite in the series, but I still enjoyed it very much. These are the kind of vampire novels I like -- ones that don't take the idea of vampires too seriously. If you want your vampires to be all dark and mysterious like in the Anne Rice books and many of the newer vampire romances, you may not appreciate this series as much as I do.

Before I get into the book, I just want to say that in Sookie's world, vampires and Weres are huge cheapskates. Over the life of this series, Sookie has done a lot of favors for the supernatural community. Big favors. But they still are pretty well-off (at least the leaders) and she still lives a paycheck-to-paycheck existence. In this book she does something enormous for someone wealthy and her reward seemed pretty paltry to me.

Unlike many of the previous novels in the series, this book doesn't focus on a single element of the supernatural community around Bon Temps or Shreveport. They all make at least a cameo appearance. One reviewer thought this was a negative point. I kind of liked it. And to add to the variety, Sookie's soft heart nets her another roommate.

As in past books, Sookie's skills get her sucked into Werewolf and vampire politics and put her in danger. Along with her misadventures among the vampires and the Weres, Sookie meets meets some new family members. Regular readers will know how important that is because Sookie has almost no family left. I am interested to see how this plays out in the next books.

I like the way the author works the devastation of Hurricane Katrina into the fabric of the book as much as I am sorry there is a need to do so.

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Lots of steak, but no sizzle

From Dead to Worse has plenty of plot, none of it very interesting, unless you're really into Were, Fairy, Witch and Vampire politics. The humor, emotional depth and eroticism (girly stuff) that made the earlier books so winning for me is mostly missing. This book is more like something my husband would appreciate. And Lord of the Rings it ain't. Like Janet Evanovitch with her Stephanie Plum novels, Harris has painted herself into a corner with the plotline that anchors the series: the love triangle between Sookie and the two vampires in her life. It's stuck in neutral. How many more books do we have to wade through before Sookie finally gets back together with Bill?

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NOT the best of the series

This is a great series, just started it 2 weeks ago and finished this book last night. A book a day nearly. This book is definitely the weakest of the 8. It skipped around and didn't have a main plot, but a few small, somewhat uninteresting ones. I still enjoyed the read though, because I love Sookie and her posse.

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