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True Blood Collection: Dead Reckoning, Dead In The Family, A Touch Of Dead, Dead And Gone, Dead To The World, Dead As A Doornail, All Together Dead And More (2011)

by Charlaine Harris(Favorite Author)

4.45 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1780482965 (ISBN13: 9781780482965)

languge

English

genre

Paranormal Fantasy

publisher

Zatpix Re-Packaged Edition

review 1: I was actually impressed, not with the writing of course, but with the magic realism in books 2-8. It also was better than many "series" books I've read where the stories are basically recycled versions of each other (the Janet Evanovich series for one). While the conflicts were often similar in that they involved someone or multiple people wanting to kill the main character, they varied enough to feel new and unpredictable from book to book. More importantly, the relationships between characters evolved and people changed throughout the series rather than staying stale versions of themselves from previous books. Another positive was the main character, who despite being somewhat irritating at first, managed to strike a good combination between confident, self-effacin... moreg, and forthright. Unlike in many of the books I've read, particularly those not based in our "reality", I could actually understand and agree with many of the decisions Sookie made. Her logic was often strong and her shrewdness and candor made her a somewhat admirable heroine. Until the end of the series....Somewhere towards the last few books, plots get convoluted and extremely illogical and characters lose their integrity, acting in ways inconsistent with their behavior in the previous books. Unfortunately, the "who does she end up with?" question, something any female reader will have a vested interest in by the time she has read all 13 books, did not get resolved to my liking and if you want to hear the myriad of reasons why, just check the amazon book reviews and you'll find some of the most negative reviews out there. On the other hand, despite my disappointment and resentment towards the author for "dropping the ball" at the end of the series, I will say that it took me about only a week to read all the books and they were entertaining, so if you are looking for a guilty-pleasure to pass some time along, I would recommend this series to you.
review 2: I really enjoyed the Charlaine Harris's Sookie Stackhouse in the True Blood Collection. I have ready #s 1-8 so far. They range from a 3-3.5 as fun, tongue in cheek, Vampire - lit. The books are far better than the HBO TV series, though I do enjoy watching them for what they are. The author's candidness and humour are not picked up in the TV Series, which strives to make it all far more dramatic and focused on Vampiric-Human couplings. There are not only Vampires, but the whole gambit of fairy tale creatures to deal with in the various books, such as Werewolves, shape shifters,witches, Fairies etc.Enjoyable reads if you are into this kind of stuff! less

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