The 10th book in the series, Dead in the Family, will be available in exactly seven days from now! I have been anxiously waiting for this new book since the last book came out in May 2009. Charlaine you are so cruel to make me wait a whole year for new Sookie stories!
My love for Sookie began from watching the first season of HBO’s hugely popular True Blood series. One of my friends had read the books the show was based on and lent me her copies of the Sookie Stackhouse aka Southern Vampire Series.
I was instantly addicted, devouring all eight books in the series. I stayed up late reading…would get up early in the morning to read…would read at lunchtime…would bring my books with me everywhere just in case I had an extra second to eek out a few pages. Harris’ writing style is casual and funny, and her characters are complex, surprising at times, and human (even though they’re not!). Sookie is a tough cookie and I admire her for that. (So unlike Bella in the Twilight books.)
Thankfully I’ve been able to get a little of my Sookie fix by enticing a coworker to just “try” the books. As a die-hard Twilight fan, she was reluctant at first. But she soon became entranced with the books, and even changed her mind a little on Twi/Stephanie Meyer. (We both think Meyer totally ripped off some of Harris’ themes, but I won’t get into that here.) It’s been so much fun to discuss all of the mysteries and romances in the books as my coworker reads them for the first time.
Adding to my Sookie fix, over the last year I have re-read several of my favorites in the series (can you say Eric & amnesia!) and right now I’m re-reading book nine, Dead and Gone, to refresh my memory and ramp up for the new title.
Let the countdown to the new book’s release begin!
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