6.15.2023 | Thursday

Club Dead

Item: Club Dead
Rating: 5
Author: Kim

category: Book Reviews
tag(s): adult
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title: Club Dead
author: Charlaine Harris
series: Sookie Stackhouse #3
published: 29 April 2003
publisher: Ace
genre(s): paranormal, romance, thrillers
pages: 273
source: bought
format: eBook
buy/shelve it: Amazon | B&N | StoryGraph | Goodreads

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the blurb

Things between cocktail waitress Sookie and her vampire boyfriend Bill seem to be going excellently (apart from the small matter of him being undead) until he leaves town for a while. A long while. Bill's sinister boss Eric has an idea of where to find him, whisking her off to Jackson, Mississippi to mingle with the under-underworld at Club Dead. When she finally catches up with the errant vampire, he is in big trouble and caught in an act of serious betrayal. This raises serious doubts as to whether she should save him or start sharpening a few stakes of her own ..

a few notes

content warning: ❗some graphic violence❗

steamy rating: 🔥🔥🔥
language level: 🤬

POV: 1st person
HEA: n/a
keywords/phrases: vampires, shifters, paranormal

my review

I can’t help it. I love these books. They aren’t for everyone, they aren’t meant to be taken as serious literature. They aren’t going to change your view of the world. But that’s okay. Sometimes you just need a break from the real world, and this series does that. Club Dead is my favorite thus far, taking us farther out into Sookie’s rapidly expanding world. In this one, she finds herself embroiled in vampire politics as she’s thrust into yet another harrowing situation.

About Charlaine Harris

Charlaine Harris, who has been writing mysteries for over twenty years, is a native of Mississippi. Born and raised in the Delta, she began training for her career as soon as she could hold a pencil. Though her early works consisted largely of poems about ghosts and (later) teenage angst, she began writing plays when she attended Rhodes College in Memphis, and graduated to books a few years later.
After publishing two stand-alone mysteries, Harris decided to establish a series. She began the lighthearted Aurora Teagarden books with Real Murders, which garnered an Agatha nomination. Harris’s protagonist, a diminutive Georgia librarian whose life never turns out quite the way she planned, kept Harris busy for several books, but finally Harris (and Aurora) grew restless.
The result of this restlessness was the much edgier Shakespeare series — set not in England, but in rural Arkansas. The heroine of the Shakespeare books is Lily Bard, a tough and taciturn woman whose life has been permanently reshaped by a terrible crime and its consequences. In Shakespeare’s Landlord, the first in the series, Lily is caught at a moment when the shell she’s built around herself is just beginning to crack, and the books capture Lily’s emotional re-entry into the world, while also being sound mysteries.
Harris’s latest venture is a series about a telepathic barmaid in southern Louisiana. The first book in the series, Dead Until Dark, won the Anthony for best paperback mystery of 2001. Each book about Sookie Stackhouse (and her dealings with vampires and werewolves and other creatures of the night) has gathered more readers to enjoy the books’ unique blend of mystery, humor, romance, and the supernatural. The Sookie books are also being read in Japan, Spain, Greece, and Great Britain.
In addition to her work as a writer, Harris is married and the mother to three children. A former weight lifter and karate student, she is an avid reader and cinemaphile. She is a member of the vestry of St. James Episcopal Church.
Harris is a member of the Mystery Writers of America and the American Crime Writers League. She is a member of the board of Sisters in Crime, and alternates with Joan Hess as president of the Arkansas Mystery Writers Alliance.