Dead and Gone: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel, by Charlaine Harris
Vampires, witches, werepanthers…Oh My! Did I mention “the great were revelation,” a crucifixion, and a fairy war? They are all jammed packed into this incredibly inventive work by Tunica-born Charlaine Harris.I am certain that I am the only person in America who has not seen TrueBlood, the HBO series based on these vampire books, but I have read and thoroughly enjoyed them all!! In this latest book, Sookie – a telepathic waitress at Merlotte’s owned by Sam, a pure shapeshifter – is confronted by danger on just about the turn of every page set in the mythical place called Bon Temps, Louisiana.
Sookie’s two roommates are witches who have placed powerful magic around Sookie’s house, so she thinks she is safe when home. But when she is out in the world, whose human inhabitants have only recently discovered that they share the planet with the likes of vampires are about to be introduced to the likes of shapeshifters and other were creatures like Jason, Sookie’s own brother.
Eric, a former Viking and still the King of the Louisiana vamps, is Sookie’s latest love interest. Her former vamp lover Bill still hovers across the cemetery from Sookie and serves as a protector for her as best he can from afar. You will also meet up with Bubba, a vampire from Memphis who will no doubt remind you a famous superstar of rock and roll fame thought to be completely dead and gone. Not.
You will also be brought into an overarching and rather awful fairy war orchestrated by Breandan, arch-enemy of Niall, Sookie’s great grandfather. Did I mention that Sookie was part fairy?
Who will win the war, who will live and who will die, and what will be discovered about the lives of the many “supes” occupying this reality as we mortal humans know it to be will be the cause of at least a few feverish nights of reading. Ms. Harris has written another barn-burner of a vampire book, folks. One you will not soon forget.
Reviewed by Catherine Nathan, First Regional Library
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