ALL THE DEAD SHALL WEEP - Charlaine Harris

From the creator of the hugely popular Sookie Stackhouse series (aka True Blood) is the Gunnie Rose series. All the Dead Shall Weep is the 5th book in this series, but author Charlaine Harris gives us everything we need to know about the characters within the pages of the book - reading this will only whet the appetite to go back and read the earlier entries in the series.

Lizbeth Rose Savarova meets her (half)sister Felicia Karkarova and her husband’s brother (Peter Savarova) at the train station. Felicia's magical powers have grown and she's become the target of multiple assassination attempts and kidnapping attempts. But there are also men coming to make their acquaintance ... Felicia is perhaps the most eligible young woman in the magic world.

The sisters have a strong bond and they definitely look after each other and Lizbeth is suspicious of everyone who approaches. And for good reason as she discovers when someone kills her.

There's a reason that some authors find success while others toil away ... they just know how to entertain. And Charlaine Harris knows how to entertain.

Although this is the fifth book in the Gunnie Rose series, I never felt out of touch or as if I were missing too much backstory to understand and enjoy what was happening. The story moved along quickly ... maybe too quickly as I didn't feel I was given much time to really think about what was going on. I wanted to turn the page to see what happened next and it was always interesting.

I really liked the characters of Lizbeth and Felicia.  As a newcomer to the series I now want to go back and learn more about them and this world that we're in. Going in to this I had some fear that this would just be a Sookie Stackhouse clone, but that's not the case. Harris has latched on to the strong female central character and a world that sees magic and paranormal activity. But (as far as I can tell) we're not frolicking with vampires and werewolves in Louisiana. Instead we're in an alternate version of the Old West, Texas where some can kill with a thought as easily as others do with a pistol.

For someone  like myself, who enjoys reading a western nearly as much as a scifi/fantasy novel, this blends the genres nicely.  Think of the old television show The Wild, Wild West with a little more paranormal activity and strong women rather than macho men.

Looking for a good book? All the Dead Shall Weep by Charlaine Harris, the 5th book in the Gunnie Rose series, is a character driven action story full of (to quote a character in the story) "blood and magic and guns and death."

I received a digital copy of this book from the publisher, through Netgalley, in exchange for an honest review.

4 stars

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All the Dead Shall Weep

author: Charlaine Harris

series: Gunnie Rose #5

publisher: S&S/Saga Press

ISBN: 9781982182526

hardcover, 256 pages
 

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