Thursday, June 25, 2009

Dead As A Doornail by Charlaine Harris

Southern Vampire Series Book 5 Copyright: 2005 Pages: 295 For a little book, Dead As A Doornail sure has a lot going on; kind of a 'whodunit' meets a series of unfortunate events. It's yet another entertaining installment, delving deeper into the paranormal community of Bon Temps and Shreveport. A sniper is targeting 'shifters', someone tries to burn down Sookie's house, Sam's injured, Calvin's hospitalised, Tara's acting strange & Sookie is technically on her own. Although Sookie is without a partner in this book, it's getting rather crowded on the love front! Eric, werepanther leader Calvin, werewolf Alcide, Bill, Sam & weretiger Quinn are all vying for a place in Sookie's heart or pants ;-) I was a little lost with the introduction of fairies, Claudine & Claude, but the tongue-in-cheek explanation that Claudine is Sookie's fairy godmother and Claude, well he's just a fairy, literally, set me straight. Sookie's thought "He doesn't swing in my direction, but he's a treat for the eyes" cracked me up. Werewolf politics play a big part in this book; the contest for packmaster of the Shreveport werewolves really creeped me out and Alcide took a nosedive in my popularity poll. Not much else to add, this is indulgent fun ~ bring on Definitely Dead

13 comments:

  1. Oh no Alcide is the only reason I kept reading the series as long as I did (I just could never get into it).

    Glad I never reached this book I would not have been impressed at all to Alcide in a bad light.

    I like the review, doing a review of a book in the middle of the series is hard!

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  2. Alcide is a bit of a jack-ass in Dead as a Doornail, which is a shame cause I quite liked him too!
    So much happens in this book, I've mentioned a few things but it was actually easy not to give away the big ones!

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  3. I haven't heard of these, but I just love the cover.

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  4. Love this series! I was a little upset over Alcide myself! I still have to read books 6 & 7.

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  5. So glad you're moving on to Definitely Dead.:) I think Dead as a Doornail is the one I like least.

    And I'm still rooting for Eric!

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  6. O.K. I've had book 1 for what seems like forever and after reading your awesome review I am going upstairs to my book room and putting #1 in my shelf to read next!!! You're such an enabler!!! :)

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  7. I read the first book and I really, really liked it... but I think I might have a hard time turning off my romance reading filter. I have very specific HEA needs, and I know that a series, by definition, can't meet them!

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  8. Scrap girl ~ you should join the Sookie Stackhouse challenge and read them all?

    Sharon ~ I have the books and the audio, still trying to decide whether to read or listen to 6,7,and 8. No. 9 I think I'll read.

    fantaghiro23 ~ Club Dead and Dead As A Doornail were my least faves. I think I'm leaning towards Sam.

    Staci ~ you make me laugh girl! You have a bookroom???

    Kate ~ I'm still hoping by the end of the series that I'll get the HEA that I want but you just never know with Urban Fantasy.

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  9. Hey you're over half way there. Can't wait for you to get to number 9!

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  10. I have got to get going with this series!

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  11. Alcide started out as a nice guy but he was just plain irritating and self centered in this one.
    The books get better and more interesting as you get to 9. Have fun reading

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  12. I love the Sookie books, but definitely agree with your thoughts on Alcide.

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