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3.94 AVERAGE
3.94 AVERAGE
Definitely my least favourite of the series so far. Eric is my favourite character and although it was good to have so much of him this time around, I like him more when he's being a badass. Just awful. It didn't end soon enough
This is the 4th in the True Blood series, the book opens with Bill and Sookie no longer an item in fact Bill hardly plays any part appearing only briefly at the beginning and conclusion since he is off in Peru pursuing his computer database (which caused so much drama in the previous book). You'd think he'd learned his lesson by now.
Sookie on her way home encounters Eric apparently suffering from amnesia and with a bounty on his head placed there by a coven of witches who seek not only Eric but also his bar and territory. Sookie is persuaded by Pam and Chow to give Eric shelter in her home for which Jason negotiates a fee. But then Jason goes missing.
So we have no Bill, Jason missing, a mushy neutered Eric but we do have Alcide oh but wait he is browbeaten by Debbie. It is to say the least a bit lacking in testosterone this time round. Sookie seems to meander around trying to find out information and usually not coming up with much at all. Alcide is finally forced to confront what we all knew about Debbie being a two faced manipulator - Alcide is such a wet lettuce I don't know what Sookie sees in him. I was hoping we would have more interaction with the witches then we do. Things liven up at the end when there is a fight scene but it is a long time coming. There is an interesting development at the end with Jason and it has possibilities so we will see if that goes anywhere in future books let's hope so.
Sookie on her way home encounters Eric apparently suffering from amnesia and with a bounty on his head placed there by a coven of witches who seek not only Eric but also his bar and territory. Sookie is persuaded by Pam and Chow to give Eric shelter in her home for which Jason negotiates a fee. But then Jason goes missing.
So we have no Bill, Jason missing, a mushy neutered Eric but we do have Alcide oh but wait he is browbeaten by Debbie. It is to say the least a bit lacking in testosterone this time round. Sookie seems to meander around trying to find out information and usually not coming up with much at all. Alcide is finally forced to confront what we all knew about Debbie being a two faced manipulator - Alcide is such a wet lettuce I don't know what Sookie sees in him. I was hoping we would have more interaction with the witches then we do. Things liven up at the end when there is a fight scene but it is a long time coming. There is an interesting development at the end with Jason and it has possibilities so we will see if that goes anywhere in future books let's hope so.
The best book of the whole series! This is the book that made me fall in love with Eric x Sookie.
Another entertaining installment of the Sookie series. Eric plays a dominant role of sorts in this novel, but he isn't quite himself. Bill is almost nonexistent in this book and his absence felt a little strange. However, there were plenty of other characters that keep the novel entertaining. I look forward to the next installment.
This one gets one more star than the third book in the series. Because of the hot Eric action, obviously.
Hubba hubba.
Hubba hubba.
Now the series has turned a bit more predictable and I think this one was weaker than the last. Plus, just like Evanovich's Plum, Harris' Stackhouse has become rather promiscuous. These are good fall asleep at the end of a stressful day reads, though.
finally finished <3
it was interesting to see witches and people changing to panthers but at some moments I've felt like I'm reading The Vampire Diaries and that is nothing positive, more negative :(
hope the 5th part will be better
it was interesting to see witches and people changing to panthers but at some moments I've felt like I'm reading The Vampire Diaries and that is nothing positive, more negative :(
hope the 5th part will be better
Rating: 3.9* of five
The Publisher Says: In Sookie Stackhouse—a Southern cocktail waitress with a supernatural gift—Harris has a created a heroine like few others, and a series that puts the bite back in vampire fiction. Now the hit series launches into hardcover for Sookie's biggest twist-filled adventure yet.
When cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse sees a naked man on the side of the road, she doesn't just drive on by. Turns out the poor thing hasn't a clue who he is, but Sookie does. It's Eric the vampire—but now he's a kinder, gentler Eric. And a scared Eric, because whoever took his memory now wants his life.
My Review: Sookie's life isn't dull, is it? I'd hate to be a character written by Harris, because one thing would be sure and certain. I'd never get a single uncomplicated moment's peace.
Bill's the ex, Eric's the new boy, and Jason (Sookie's playa of a brother) has vanished. That right there, in a person's real life, would be enough for a Jamaican escape cruise and a year of therapy to be necessary. Sookie, she gets no rest. She's got a powerful ancient vampire living in her basement, bereft of his memories and therefore stripped to his essential nature. That he also happens to be a gigantic, gorgeous blond Viking with a millennium's-worth of sex secrets to share (the mind might forget but the body doesn't) makes Sookie's rebound from her breakup with Bill one heckuva lot of fun, in the sack at least.
It's that pesky out-of-bed world.
Eric's memory was taken from him for a reason. There's a new group in Shreveport with domination of the supernatural community on their minds, the witches. Some bad, bad witches. With some really nasty plans for Shreveport, and getting rid of Eric is step one. He's the supernatural law, after all.
Sookie struggles with the fear and grief of losing her brother, her one surviving blood relative, throughout the book. It just can't be good that Jason's vanished after starting a relationship with a werepanther girl. Calvin Norris, the leader of the bizarre werepanther community of Hot Shot (out at the ancient native trails crossroads near Bon Temps), adds to the complexity of the situation by getting a little bit of a Thing for blonde, busty bimbo-lookin' Sookie-with-the-special-powers.
Sookie's world, once devoid of companionship, now teems with people of both genders, all imaginable persuasions, and every conceivable level of bizarreness, all wanting a piece of the woman, and her special mind-reading powers. She was isolated, and now being left alone sounds awful good. She battles the dark witches, she finds her brother, she sacrifices the simplicity of loving for the honorable and dutiful complexity of restoring balance to as much of the world as she can reach.
It's a pretty darn spiffy, if jam-packed, episode in the Stackhouse Files.
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The Publisher Says: In Sookie Stackhouse—a Southern cocktail waitress with a supernatural gift—Harris has a created a heroine like few others, and a series that puts the bite back in vampire fiction. Now the hit series launches into hardcover for Sookie's biggest twist-filled adventure yet.
When cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse sees a naked man on the side of the road, she doesn't just drive on by. Turns out the poor thing hasn't a clue who he is, but Sookie does. It's Eric the vampire—but now he's a kinder, gentler Eric. And a scared Eric, because whoever took his memory now wants his life.
My Review: Sookie's life isn't dull, is it? I'd hate to be a character written by Harris, because one thing would be sure and certain. I'd never get a single uncomplicated moment's peace.
Bill's the ex, Eric's the new boy, and Jason (Sookie's playa of a brother) has vanished. That right there, in a person's real life, would be enough for a Jamaican escape cruise and a year of therapy to be necessary. Sookie, she gets no rest. She's got a powerful ancient vampire living in her basement, bereft of his memories and therefore stripped to his essential nature. That he also happens to be a gigantic, gorgeous blond Viking with a millennium's-worth of sex secrets to share (the mind might forget but the body doesn't) makes Sookie's rebound from her breakup with Bill one heckuva lot of fun, in the sack at least.
It's that pesky out-of-bed world.
Eric's memory was taken from him for a reason. There's a new group in Shreveport with domination of the supernatural community on their minds, the witches. Some bad, bad witches. With some really nasty plans for Shreveport, and getting rid of Eric is step one. He's the supernatural law, after all.
Sookie struggles with the fear and grief of losing her brother, her one surviving blood relative, throughout the book. It just can't be good that Jason's vanished after starting a relationship with a werepanther girl. Calvin Norris, the leader of the bizarre werepanther community of Hot Shot (out at the ancient native trails crossroads near Bon Temps), adds to the complexity of the situation by getting a little bit of a Thing for blonde, busty bimbo-lookin' Sookie-with-the-special-powers.
Sookie's world, once devoid of companionship, now teems with people of both genders, all imaginable persuasions, and every conceivable level of bizarreness, all wanting a piece of the woman, and her special mind-reading powers. She was isolated, and now being left alone sounds awful good. She battles the dark witches, she finds her brother, she sacrifices the simplicity of loving for the honorable and dutiful complexity of restoring balance to as much of the world as she can reach.
It's a pretty darn spiffy, if jam-packed, episode in the Stackhouse Files.
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I love the new Eric...wish he could have stuck around.