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All Together Dead by Charlaine Harris

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This book was so great!  A really funny thing happened though while I was reading this book.  I got so into it I read it in one sitting while the basketball game was on and at first I was just going to start it, and then I couldn’t stop.  I started to tell my husband about the book because I thought it was so great, and he was just kept looking at me with this funny look on his face and laughing at things that were not supposed to be funny.  Then I realized, these books are ridiculous, but ridiculously AWESOME!  It’s like a really great soap opera.  It’s completely over the top but so great you can’t stop reading.  I haven’t seen any of the True Blood show but I am hoping beyond hope that they put this book into the storyline somewhere because this book was fangtastic, (yeah I did).

So Sookie has a house guest, Amelia Broadway from New Orleans.  She came to stay with Sookie because she needed to get out of New Orleans because some of her magic went awry and she needed to figure out what she did.  Then the hurricane hit and then she couldn’t go back.  She’s been staying with Sookie, paying rent and being a friend and it’s worked out pretty well.  Sookie hasn’t seen much of Quinn because he’s been working a lot and traveling a lot.  She’s not really sure if things will work out if this is how often she’s going to be seeing him.  Luckily he comes for a visit and they make up for lost time.  I just love the way they interact with each other, so different from her relationships with the vampires.  I really like Quinn’s character too, he’s so much more likable.  I’m sure there are lots of twists and turns coming for them but I hope this lasts a little while at least.

All of the arrangements have been made for the big vampire summit.  One little wrinkle is that the Queen is going to be on trial for the murder of her husband the King of Arkansas.  His second in command has stepped forward stating there was a plot to overtake the state and that she never wanted to be married to him, she just wanted to have the power.  Sookie’s talents are in high demand for the Queen because there will be a lot of politicking going on and she needs all the help she can get after the hurricane left her city and her finances depleted.  I couldn’t possibly go into all that happens at the summit because it’s action packed and full of craziness.  Sookie is excited to be back in touch with Barry the Bellboy the only other telepath she knows, and they test their gifts together and realize that they are very powerful as a duo, kind of scary.  Sookie proves her worth to the vampires over and over and over.  She’s is rewarded but she really doesn’t see their “gift” as a reward.  She’s getting sucked (haha) in deeper and deeper to their world and making herself invaluable to them isn’t really going to make her life any easier.

Of course, there is man drama.  Bill, Eric, and Quinn are all there together vying for her attention.  It does seem difficult for her but every time it seems to get too hard, someone gets murdered or there is an assassination attempt, or bomb threat, or something else crazy that she has to help with.  Not because she wants to but because she feels a moral obligation to help when there are people in need, or about to be hurt and she can prevent it.  She learns some shocking things about Quinn, Eric, Bill, Barry, and herself that has her shaken and questioning everything in her life.   Something huge happens at the end of the book and we don’t really know how everyone ends up, just that Sookie narrowly escapes a potentially deadly situation, (but isn’t that a daily occurrence when you’re friends with vampires?) and is happy to be home to give herself time to process everything.

I can’t wait to see what happens next!!!

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Definitely Dead by Charlaine Harris

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Ok this book was annoying to start because the storyline of this book was actually started in a short story One Word Answer written by Charlaine Harris.  I was completely confused because I couldn’t remember the specifics from a previous book and I thought I was going crazy, I am pregnant and mommy brain is a real thing people.  Luckily, the author recaps pretty well and you can follow the story after that.

So Sookie’s cousin is dead and she left everything she had to Sookie and Sookie alone.  Which means that she has to go settle her estate, clean out her apartment, collect what’s in the bank and all the fund stuff that goes along with that.  She’s waiting to hear that the estate is out of probate so she can proceed.   In the meantime, Sookie has started dating Quinn, the shape shifting tiger she met in the last book.  I love him!  I love that he calls her babe, it brings a different quality of man to the table.  He travels a lot as apart of his job but they do manage to go out and because it’s Sookie, they get attacked by a two young weres.  No one claims to know what’s going on or why and Sookie isn’t sure that it’s her or Quinn they are after.

Soon, Sookie is summoned by the Queen of Louisana to come and see her and settle her cousin’s estate at the same time.  This is no little thing, and as it turns out Hadley, Sookie’s cousin, was in the Queen’s favor.  The Queen has recently married the King of Arkansas, not a marriage of love but of practicality?  It seems that Hadley was not at all pleased with this new arrangement and took something in vengeance before her death.  Oh, did we forget to mention that she was murdered? And in the process of cleaning out her apartment Sookie makes a startling discovery in the closet.  The young witch who lives downstairs helps shed some light on what happened the night Hadley died which is of great interest to the Queen.  Sookie is surprised by Quinn showing up to help her with the clean up and they get frisky, but soon there is more trouble.  More were’s out to get one or both of them?  The biggest thing in this book comes from something Eric forces Bill to reveal to Sookie which changes her relationship with the vampires completely.

This book was full of craziness and I loved it.  It had twists and turns and although it was a little confusing at first I found I still enjoyed it a lot.  I’m excited to see where things will go from here with Quinn, Eric, and Bill.  It seems the other men have been removed but who knows what will happen next.

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