The fourth book in the Sookie Stackhouse series, following on from Club Dead.Sookie Stackhouse is a small-town cocktail waitress in small-town Louisiana. She's pretty. She does her job well. She keeps to herself and has only a few close friends because not everyone appreciates Sookie's gift. She can read minds. Not exactly every man's idea of date bait. Unless they're undead. Vampires and the like can be tough to read - just the kind of guy Sookie's been looking for.
Maybe that's why, when she comes across a naked vampire on the road home from work, she doesn't just drive on by. Turns out he hasn't a clue as to who he is, but Sookie does. It's Eric, still as scary and sexy - and dead - as the day she first met him. But now that he has amnesia, Eric is sweet, vulnerable, and in need of Sookie's help - because whoever took his memory now wants his life. Sookie's investigation into why leads straight into a dangerous battle among witches, vampires, and werewolves. But there could be a greater danger to Sookie's heart - because the kinder, gentler Eric is very difficult to resist...
Sookie's New Year's resolution was to stay away from vampires. Should be easy right? After all, her ex-boyfriend Bill has gone to Peru so she has no need to have anything to do with any of his vampire buddies. Except when she comes across Eric running naked down a road, apparently unaware of who he is, he is pretty hard to resist. It turns out he has lost his memory, and the people who put the curse on him are pretty intent on tracking him down so that they can finish him off once and for all. Not long after Eric turns up, Sookie's brother Jason goes missing, so between looking for him, and trying to keep Eric hidden, her New Year's resolution has gone out the window. It certainly doesn't help that Eric is still sexy as, and to top it off he is kind and vulnerable....yum! I wouldn't be saying no either, just quietly, and I don't know about Sookie, but I was definitely thinking "Bill.....Bill who?" a lot of the time through this book!
With more and more supernaturals being unveiled and time running out, Sookie is drawn into a supernatural battle between witches, were-creatures (including the very sexy Alcide who we met in the last book), fairies, vampires and the local wiccan community, Sookie is just hoping that she doesn't get too badly beaten up.
When I finished the last book I was really hoping that Sookie would end up with Alcide. They had such great chemistry, and he seemed like a really great guy...well, for a werewolf anyway! It wasn't to be in this book, but one of the major obstacles is out of the way for the future if that is the way the author decides to go!
With more supernatural men find Sookie attractive, and her own conflicted feelings about some of them, it all looks like interesting times ahead for Sookie.
Rating 4/5
OOOOHHHHH, I love me some Sookie books!!! This one was one of my favorites. I love how Pam was in this one. And yeah, Alcide was always a front runner for me, too.
ReplyDeleteBut, I cannot stand Bill as a man for her. I just get the creeps whenever he shows up!
I like the way Sookie has different love interests throughout the series. Keeps things interesting.
ReplyDeleteThis was the Sookie book that hooked me to this series! Love me some Eric! lol
ReplyDeleteDarn..I had to rewrite this as Blogger ate my post! In the other one I wrote I said that I definitely wouldn't have been saying no to Eric either!!!
ReplyDeleteMight need to add something about that!
What am I talking about!! It was in this one that I wrote that!! D'Oh!
ReplyDeleteFor the longest time, I've thought these books were YA, and then I was checking out some of them to an older lady at the library and I asked what she thought of them and she just about fell over the counter trying to get me to see how great they are. I may have to try these soon. Boy... I don't think I have enough time to read all the books I've been seeing in blogland.
ReplyDeleteI know that feeling Kristina!
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