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Wow, just wow! Dead as a Doornail had lots of action, lots of mystery and more than a few surprises. There was a lot of interesting shape-shifter focus in this novel and I am finding myself quite intrigued by the growing fairy storyline. Sookie is getting close with a couple of different men and I'm really wondering who she'll chose and where it'll go. My interest in Alcide is completely over after reading this but I am very glad that Eric is back to being Eric. Dead as a Doornail answered a lot of questions but presented even more new questions to wonder about. This was one highly entertaining Southern Vampire novel.
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I loved Dead as a Doornail. Sookie's character continues to assert herself and to be confident with who she is as a woman. Just when I thought the series couldn't get any better here comes book 5 with more excitement. In book 3 weres appear, book 4 panthers appear, now in book 5 there is a tiger. I can't wait to read book 6.
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I absolutely love all Charlaine Harris "Sookie Stackhouse books" Not even for the fact that they are vampires, but I like the action that is going on too. If you like Vampires and other supernatural creatures, mixed with a little sex and witty comments, you will like the Sookie Stackhouse series.
I do not recommend for anyone under 18, just for the sex situations in the books.
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As always my book was in very good shape when it arrived. Have not read it yet, still reading earlier books from the series. The arrival of the book was as promised by Amazon. Thank You for the promptness. Mary Williams
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Hello again, Truebloods - you've come this far and you've yet to go further still, no doubt with much enthusiasm. "Dead As A Doornail", Book 5 in the Southern Vampire Mysteries, is a hell of a good time, replete with all the charm, tenacity and spunk we've come to know from our voluptuous telepathic heroine Sookie Stackhouse. By now we readers of this lively and flippant series have come to realize that author Charlaine Harris's imagination truly knows no bounds and her rollicking paranormal stone of a story gathers no moss, rolling along into yet another perilous adventure. Some of you are probably wondering, "What sort of trouble could Sookie possibly get into at this point?" You highly underestimate the possibilities. In this particular chapter in her exhilarating life (which picks up directly where "Dead To The World" left off - her involvement with the undead doesn't give her a lengthy reprieve from peril), the dastardly antagonist she is desperately trying to fend off is a deadly sniper who targets the shapeshifting community, a race of supernatural beings of which Sookie's brother Jason is a now a bonafide member.
Sookie has always had a curious sexual magnetism toward the "supes" but for this portion of the series, she has innumerable wooers. Her old lover Bill pops out of the shadows to offer comfort and aid, Eric is desperate to find out whether he was intimate with her while his memory was lost, Calvin (a werepanther) courts her considerably, Sam still nurses his affections and Alcide returns to pursue her, his "abjured" girlfriend Debbie now completely out of the picture (thanks to Sookie's Annie Oakley clout in the last book). Like a crazy bout of fencing, Sookie parries each of their advances while trying like hell to figure out who's been taking literal shots at her "supe" acquaintances and it doesn't take long before that darned New Year's Resolution of avoiding injury is broken with a bullet to her arm.
Bottom line: Once you start the Southern Vampire Mysteries, it's unlikely you'll stop. Harris is a great mystery writer who has found a most interesting niche in the mish-mash of vampire and werewolf lore, shapeshifters, creatures springing straight from Greek mythology and the natural superstition and spirituality of the Deep South. It's a formula that's as curiously appealing as the fairies that roam Bon Temps and beyond.
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