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A Touch of Dead (Sookie Stackhouse Vampire Myst) Book

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  • Janet Ives30 November 2009

    Although I am now quite a fan of the paranormal romance genre that seems to have blossomed due to the popularity of Stephanie Meyer's Twilight series, I was quite late in discovering the excellent Southern Vampire series by Charlaine Harris. I have been following the television series True Blood on Channel 4 and thought it was absolutely terrific and so rushed out and bought all of the books in the series. A Touch of Dead is the most recent book in the series and so is still in hardback but it is worth paying the slightly higher price to avoid having to wait until next year for the paperback.
    Unlike the rest of the books in the series, A Touch of Dead is actually a collection of short stories, all featuring Sookie Stackhouse, that have been published in compilations previously. I had never read any of the stories before but it is possible that long term fans of the series might have and so it is probably worth checking that you don't already have them before you buy this book. The stories collected in A Touch of Dead are Fairy Dust, One Word Answer, Dracula Night, Lucky and Gift Wrap. All of the five stories fit into the gaps between the other books and so help to fill out the characters and explain some plot issues that were otherwise unmentioned. For example, we discover how Sookie found out about Claudette's death. I really enjoy the Southern Vampire series, Sookie Stackhouse is a wonderful narrator and the combination of the paranormal, the romance and the mysteries involved in her live really keep me hooked. I would recommend this series to all fans of vampire fiction and paranormal romance but would suggest that you start with the first book Dead Until Dark and then read the series in order.

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    Charlaine Harris' The Southern Vampire Mysteries including novels Dead Until Dark Definitely Dead and Dead And Gone are currently causing a massive stir none more so than on TV where the HBO adaptation appears as True Blood adapted by American Beauty and Six Feet Under scribe Alan Ball. However it's Harris' A Touch Of Dead a collection of Sookie Stackhouse-starring short stories that has us got us tangled up in a blood frenzy! ; ; Sookie Stackhouse enjoys her job as a cocktail waitress in Merlotte's a small-town bar in small-town Bon Temps deep in Louisiana. She's funny and pretty and thanks to her grandmother she's very well-mannered but since not many people truly appreciate her ability to read their minds the guys haven't exactly been beating down her door... And then along comes Bill - tall dark and handsome - and Sookie can't 'hear' a word he's thinking. He's exactly the type of guy she's been waiting all her life for. Of course Bill has a disability of his own: fussy about his food not into suntans bit of a night person: yep Bill is a vampire. But at least now Sookie knows there *are* guys she can date who won't worry about her catching them thinking about other women... And that's going to make Sookie's life really interesting! ; ; The bestselling author of preceeding novel Dead And Gone collects every Sookie short story ever written in one volume including "Fairy Dust" "One Word Answer" and "Dracula Night" from Dead To The World as well as "Lucky" from All Together Dead and From Dead To Worse short "Giftwrap." Fans of the telepathic waitress caught up in some of the most witty amiable and enthralling southern gothic ever written should put down their crucifixes throw out the garlic and leave their windows open. It's less a case of you getting your teeth into this one than the other way around!

  • BookDepository

    A Touch of Dead : Hardback : Orion Publishing Co : 9780575094420 : 0575094427 : 29 Oct 2009 : Who needs Bella when you have the irrepressible Sookie Stackhouse?

  • 0575094427
  • 9780575094420
  • Charlaine Harris
  • 29 October 2009
  • Gollancz
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 208
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