Product Description: New in the addicting New York Times bestselling series featuring Sookie Stackhouse.
After the natural disaster of Hurricane Katrina and the manmade explosion at the vampire summit, everyonehuman and otherwiseis stressed, including Louisiana cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse, who is trying to cope with the fact that her boyfriend Quinn has gone missing.
Its clear that things are changingwhether the weres and vamps of her corner of Louisiana like it or not. And SookieFriend to the Pack and blood-bonded to Eric Northman, leader of the local vampire communityis caught up in the changes.
In the ensuing battles, Sookie faces danger, death, and once more, betrayal by someone she loves. And when the fur has finished flying and the cold blood finished flowing, her world will be forever altered.
Still a winner I have read the critics of this installment of the series, and see where they are coming from. However, I enjoyed the various story lines. I thought it was a nice switch and made me eager to read the next book in the series. I was worried that this series was turning into the Anita Blake series, where every book after Obsidian Butterfly, was the same story but with different names. I would not recommend reading this book as the first in the series, but I felt it delivered.
Could've Used A Plot Transfusion To Perk It Up I enjoy this series as much as the next person, am excited to see the series, 'Tru Blood' next month on HBO, but felt this particular book was pretty average. My problem with it was that the series are called Southern Vampire Mysteries, and this didn't have much of one. Yes Sookie finds some personal things out, and there's a murder or two, but like most everything in this book it all seems like random background noise. Characters that were integral before, now waltz on for one or two scenes that do nothing really to propel the plot, and instead just seem to help establish they're still around. Specifically Bill, Tara, and Jason. Look, for fans it's not a bad book, it just feels like a coda to the previous installment, and besides setting up what I assume will be a future plot point at the very end, the rest feels slightly, well, anemic.
A Wonderful Installment in an Excellent Series If you are new to the series I would not recommend starting here. Current readers will really enjoy this installment in the series. There are not one, or two, but at least four plotlines at work in this novel, and you get full resolution for each. From Dead to Worse is longer than Harris' previous novels to contain all the action and plot twists. I'm not sure I understand why some reviewers find this novel worthy of less than 5 stars, this is one of the best Southern Vampire novels to date.
From Dead to Worse deals with the economic and political fallout following the destruction caused by hurricane Karina. Both the vampires and the werewolves are in precarious positions...the weres have undergone a recent change in leadership and are left unstable by the power struggle, and the vamps have suffered severe economic losses. Both parts of the supernatural community are vulnerable, and there are outside forces poised to fill in the gaps.
Sookie finds out more about her family history, and an old plotline is explained regarding her ancestory. I was left unsure of the implications but facinated by the discovery. We also learn about her family's future...but that's all I'll say about that.
I can't recommend this novel enough and I can't wait for the next! Also look for the HBO series True Blood in September based on these novels.
luv this series I cannot put these books down once I start. I'm already anxious for the next one.
Loved it I started reading this series in 2000 and i have kept coming back ever since. Sookie seemed much more funnier in this series she was cracking a lot more jokes..since the last one was such doom and gloom this was a nice change LOVED IT
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