DEFINITELY DEAD - Charlaine Harris

Sookie's got a new boyfriend and he's a real tiger.  No, really.  He's a tiger.  A were-tiger.

If you don't know Sookie Stackhouse by now, the Louisiana bayou waitress who can read the minds of other humans, but can't read the minds of the dead (like her ex-boyfriend, vampire Bill Compton, and her ex-boyfriend, vampire Eric Northman) then there's really no point in picking up this, the sixth book in the Sookie Stackhouse series.  Also ... where the heck have you been?  

In this volume in the series, Sookie learns that her cousin Hadley has passed away.  Hadley has left everything to Sookie and she is encouraged, by the Queen of Louisiana ... well, the vampire Queen of Lousiana ... to come and get her inheritance.  Hadley, it seems, was the secret lover of the vampire queen. But why the urgency?  The queen once gave Hadley a gift, a gift that had been given to her by the king, and if she doesn't display that gift soon, all hell will break out at the vampire ball.

Along the way, Sookie will learn more terrible things about Bill, the man she still loves even though she doesn't want to, will be beholding to Eric yet again, will make love to her were-tiger new boyfriend Quinn, and be set upon by werewolves.  

I had a moderately fun time with this.  It's pretty much just McDonald's chicken nuggets in the culinary comparison to literature, but sometimes you just want a goofy read that doesn't make you think too hard.  That would be this kind of book.

The only thing that really surprised me here (and not too much) was how straightforward and simple the plot was.  Dead Hadley's got something the vampire queen needs and Sookie's going to get it.  And, yup, she does.  Even the new information about Bill is hardly more than a passing paragraph or two - not even a subplot.

But, there's vampires, werewolves, witches, and were-tigers, naked people and just a little bit of sex.  And it's neatly wrapped up in author Charlaine Harris's swiftly moving prose.  If you can't read this in a day or two, you're spending too much time on it!

Looking for a good book? Definitely Dead by Charlaine Harris is the sixth book in the Sookie Stackhouse series. Like the others, it's simple and fast-moving with plenty of action - both physical fighting and sex. If you've started the series, go on, read this one too.  If you haven't read any of the books in the series, don't start here.  Go watch TrueBlood instead.

I bought a copy of this book at a used book store.

3 stars

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Definitely Dead

author: Charlaine Harris

series: Sookie Stackhouse #6

publisher: Ace Books

ISBN: 0441014917

paperback, 324 pages

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