Club Dead

There’s so many things I want to say about this book but find it hard to put into words. Let’s put it this way, I read to escape. I have to read every day or my day isn’t complete. I’m addicted to reading and love reading a long series that pulls me in and makes me care about the characters. This series had so much potential, but now that’s over. I won’t finish this book. I don’t care who Sookie ends up with or how it ends. This book was ruined when the author decided to throw a violent rape scene in the mix, near the end of the book no less. Being a rape survivor myself, it threw me completely off the rails and ruined the entire book. Why couldn’t Eric open the trunk 5 minutes earlier? How was Debbie in the secure garage and just waiting for Sookie to appear in the middle of the night? There was no need to insert the rape into the story. It added nothing to the story line. I read in another review that it wasn’t even addressed. So no, I’m done with this series and with this author.

Things are heating up!! Sookies world is definitely spinning out of control ever since she became entangled with Bill and the other Vampires. As the journey continues, Sookie begins to discover and uncover more about her will and level of endurance. The author has definitely changed my view of Eric. I like him more than Bill because there is no pretense about him whatsoever. Book 3 is filled with detail and connected dots that I did not get from the tv series. Im looking forward to more in the stackhouse series.

***Spoilers*** This book takes of with out heroine looking for her missing boyfriend and having to travel to do so. Along the way we meet a werewolf and the King of Louisiana who is a vampire. Eric of course makes Sookie’s travel arrangements which conveniently involve staying with a werewolf. This allows Sookie to see that there is potential for love with others if things don’t workout with her boyfriend that is said to have moved on. Between heartbreak and hunky temptations Sookie manages to save the day again.

Originally posted on The Canon! {http://canireadeverything.blogspot.com/2014/07/the-summer-of-sookie-club-dead-by.html}

Club Dead marks a big change for the Sookie Stackhouse series, one that I didn’t really notice in my first reading. In the first two novels, there’s a big focus on Sookie’s romantic life; vampires are still there, but they hang around more like ghastly Christmas ornaments in the background instead of playing a big role. Club Dead changes all of that.

Sookie’s relationship with Bill is on the rocks from the first page…well, the first line. “Bill was hunched over his computer when I let myself in his house.” In the other books, Sookie and Bill have this vibrant connection; one could cut the sexual tension with a fang. Harris immediately sets a different tone with these thirteen words: the honeymoon is over.

Sookie’s world changes so much when Bill enters the picture that it’s hard to remember that she is so inexperienced when it comes to love. Bill’s aloofness (and subsequent problems throughout Club Dead) change Sookie’s perception of not only him, but herself and men in general quite a bit. In short, Sookie’s growing pains make the story. It’s her transformation and development as a character that makes Club Dead stand from the others.

New supernatural creatures are starting to rear their heads in Bon Temps, and I personally loved the different vibe of the werewolves. Vampires retain a different set of human characteristics than the weres do. Seeing the animalistic nature set against the cold and conniving vampires opens up not only a new debate for Sookie, but for me as a reader.

I loved this installment of the Sookie series. Harris is opening so many doors for all of the characters, not only Sookie. My only complaint is Harris’s writing tended to drop off a little more in Club Dead; instead of the wry humor and sarcasm I fell in love with in the first book, there’s more of a straight, flat narrator. I miss the quirkiness of Sookie’s first person POV.

THE RATING:
FOUR STARS

WHY:
– awesome character development
– Sookie’s personal life transitions connected well with the plot
– only downside: writing fell off from the previous books

I found Sookie absolutely irritating and stupid beyond belief in this book. Her willingness to save Bill after such betrayal is just staggering to me. What he does to her at the end is absolutely reprehensible, yet she makes an excuse for him and lets it fly by. What a moron! Since when is she so super hot? I hate when characters become desirable to anyone in the book. That’s not realistic. The vampires make sense because of her blood, but no one else should be drooling like they do. Sookie was stupid not to hook up with Alcide when she had the chance. He was stupid to hook up with Debbie. His sister must be stupid because she seems pretty clueless. Sookie has become a hypocrite. She puts down fangbangers, calling them pathetic because they have become addicted to sex with a vampire. Yet Bill can violate her in multiple ways and she still craves him as much as fangbanger would. In the first book, she whines about how she will never be able to cook breakfast for Bill. But she does this for Alcide, an attractive human man, someone she can comfortably date even with her “disability”, and she still obsesses over Bill. The plot and action of this book were good, but I really didn’t like Sookie in this one at all. I am actually surprised this book is rated so highly to be honest.

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