Club Dead (Sookie Stackhouse / Southern Vampire Series #3)

Excellent Read

I really enjoyed this book even although the first one was my favourite one in the Southern Vampire series. The story will keeps you entertained for hours.

4 out of 4 people found this review helpful.

Great!

Bill goes missing and Sookie goes to Jackson to find where he could be. She goes with Alcide, a werewolf who helps her since he owes Eric a favor. Will Sookie find Bill? Could it have anything to do with a secret project he's been working on? Another great read in the series. Seems the series gets even better with each book.

3 out of 3 people found this review helpful.

Club Dead by Charlaine Harris

I really enjoyed this book. Even though I have to still say the second one was my favorite in this series thus far I still highly recommend this book. I think the part that truly bugged me though was the fact that Sookie was not more surprised by Bills actions. I still loved this book and had some resistance in putting the book down. I totally recommend this for all who love the genre of Paranormal Romance.

3 out of 4 people found this review helpful.

Light and fluffy entertainment, no substance.

Sookie Stackhouse is in a pickle again, but this time her vampire boyfriend Bill can't save her. because she's the one that has to save him.

When Bill is kidnapped only Sookie can listen for clues to his whereabouts. But what she learns about where Bill was when he was kidnapped, and why he stayed away, may be too much for her to handle. Torn between a deep sense of betrayal and a deeper bond of loyalty, Sookie must decide who to help, and how far she's willing to go.

This is the third book in the Southern Vampire Mysteries series and to be honest, I sometimes wonder why I waste my brain-power. Once again the writing is nothing special, bordering on amateurish. Harris has written Sookie as a frequenly annoying and grating narrator. I don't care to know what exact color, pattern, and fabric your pajamas are every single time you put on a pair. Likewise, I don't give a crap about your word-a-day calendar unless that calendar is going to cut someone's head off at the end of the book (it doesn't).

So many times throughout this book I wanted to yell at Sookie. I wanted to say, "Sookie, Bill bit the bejeesus out of your neck. Just because your body feels good nestled against his is no reason to cuddle!" I wanted to tell her that Eric just wants to get into her pants, so though it's nice that he seems all warm and fuzzy toward her now, it's not okay for him to do gross things while she drinks his blood. And Alcide!? Alcide is a hot werewolf, for those who haven't read the book. And in order to listen to the clues for Bill, Sookie has to pretend to be Alcide's girlfriend, and of course things get complicated there. I don't even know what shape I could use to define Sookie's love life, but it's definitely one with many sides. Three books into the series and I really wish she'd get her act together and start thinking with her brain instead of her lady-business.

I'm also really tired of Sookie always being the victim of abuse. This is not to say she doesn't defend herself, because she does, every time. But several times in the last three books she's been completely torn apart and beaten to shreds. Bloodied and bruised and broken to the point of death, I'm really tired of everyone trying to kill her.

In conclusion, I may read the fourth book in the series at some time in the future, but I think it's possible this is one of the rare examples where the screen version is better than the book in my estimation. The acting on TrueBlood is more genuine to me than Sookie's narration in the novel. This is the kind of series I would download on an eReader if I had one, because though it's entertaining, it's not anything that's going to enrich my physical book collection.

1 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

A Great Book

Out of what I have read so far on the Southern Vampire Series, Club Dead has to be the best one. The has quickly grow into one of my favorite book series. Charlaine Harris's style of writing keep me wanting more of Sookie Stackhouse adventures in a world that anything can happen. I defiantly recommend this book to anyone whose looking for a very interesting read.

1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

Great Series

I have read all of the Southern Vampire/Sookie Stackhouse series that have come out so far (my favorite is Dead to the World). I love them all, they have original plots and twists, always something new happening and new characters to meet! My only problem is not so much with the way that Charlaine Harris writes as much as her continuity issues. For example through most of the books she refers to Jason's boss as Catfish Hennessey then in one book she calls him Catfish Hunter through the entire book. Another example is that she refers to Maxine Fortenberry as Hoyt's grandmother then changes to call her his mother. Just somethings that you would think the writer would catch and if not her someone in the proofing or editing process. I realize it's not a big issue but I think it insults the readers intelligence, memory, and attention-span to not pay better attention to those details. That being said didn't keep me from reading the books, or thoroughly enjoying them, or raving about them to interested readers!

1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

Good Fun!

Quick, fun read.

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Club Dead is the third installment of Charlaine Harris’s popular Sookie Stackhouse series that HBO’s True Blood is loosely based on.

In this installment, Bill is being very distant as he is working on a secret project for the Queen of Louisiana. Sookie has decided to spend time away from him while he works which he happily agreed to (a little too happily in Sookie’s opinion) and he tells her that he will be traveling to Seattle.

Then, several days later Pam and Eric inform her that Bill is missing. That he had been in Jackson, Mississippi (not Seattle) and has fallen back with a female vampire he used to be involved with, Lorena. He was heading back to Bon Temps to make financial arrangements for Sookie so he could return to Lorena, but he never showed up. Now Eric must either find Bill or be able to produce what he’s been working on or the queen may take his life.

Sookie heads to Jackson with a werewolf associate of Eric’s, Alcide, to try to find out what happened to Bill. While hanging out at the supernatural club, Josephine’s, or better know to the weres as Club Dead, Sookie finds out that Bill has in fact been kidnapped. Eric looks everywhere he can in Jackson for Bill, but comes up empty leaving only one place he could be, the King of Mississippi’s compound. They devise a plan to try to get closer to the king and hopefully Bill, but plans never quite go the way you expect. Sookie ends up getting staked and is forced to take Eric’s blood in order for her to save Bill.

This book is a re-read for me and I must be honest that the first time through (which was back-to-back with the other books of the series) I thought it was good, but not great. This time however, I liked it much better and thought it was pretty good. I found that I was more open-minded to Alcide (I’ve always been team Eric) as well so spacing the books out definitely has its advantages not to mention seeing sexy Joe Manganiello playing Alcide on True Blood never hurts!

I’ve had many problems with things Sookie does in this series and I always think she’s waaaayyy to lenient on Bill so I was glad to see that she wasn’t rushing to get back with him after his unfaithfulness and the incident in the Lincoln’s trunk. Although I think, I would still have problems with him being in my house for any length of time after those indiscretions.

I love that you start seeing the sweet side of Eric in this book. He’s so protective over Sookie with the blood offense at Josephine’s and with the robbers at the gas station and,“That’s my future lover, be more respectful” has always been one of my favorite lines of his. Not to mention his sweet gesture at the end of the book when he has her driveway fixed for her. You can’t deny the chemistry between him and Sookie in this book!! Although she has some decent sparks with Alcide as well…

If you’re looking for a fun light read, then look no farther than the Sookie Stackhouse Series for your escape. Once you pick them up, there’s no turning back!

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This is a book series that keeps getting better. I have read all but the last two and I am still very much in love with it. Many book series keep going even after their time is through. I am happy to say that this is not the case. It is a must read!

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