Title Deadlocked
Author: Charlaine Harris
Rating: 3.5/5
Book: 24/50 (48% completed)
Pages: 327 pgs
Total Pages: 8,752/15,000 (58.35% completed)
Version: Book
Next up: The Innocent by David Baldacci
I found the majority of the book to be drawn out and dry. About 90% of the book was a play-by-play of Sookie’s life, i.e. “I went to pick up the mail. I went inside and put my mail on the table where I opened my electricity bill. Then I went upstairs and took a nap before getting up and putting on some make up so I could go out……etc.”
Sookie is still questioning her love for Eric and flipping between men again. Eric, Bill, Quinn and Alcide all made an appearance in this book.
The plot seemed to drag out for me. It seemed like very little was accomplished in this book, other than giving readers the low down on Sookie’s everyday life. That being said though, I still enjoyed the book, although not as much as I enjoyed the earlier books in the series. It’s obvious to me that Harris has run out of things to do with the series. To me, this book felt to me like Harris knows she’s under contract to write two more books and this book was just full of filler material. I worry that is what the last book is going to be like too.
While I have mixed reviews of this book, I’m always happy to return back to Sookie’s world.
About the Book:
It’s vampire politics as usual around the town of Bon Temps, but never before have they hit so close to Sookie’s heart. Growing up with telepathic abilities, Sookie Stackhouse realized early on that there are things she’d rather not know. And now that she’s an adult, she also realizes that some things she knows about, she’d rather not see–like Eric Northman feeding off another woman. A younger one. There’s a thing or two she’d like to say about that, but she has to keep quiet–Felipe de Castro, the vampire King of Louisiana (and Arkansas and Nevada), is in town. It’s the worst possible time for a human body to show up in Eric’s front yard–especially the body of the woman whose blood he just drank. Now it’s up to Sookie and Bill, the official Area Five investigator, to solve the murder. Sookie thinks that, at least this time, the dead girl’s fate has nothing to do with her. But she is wrong. She has an enemy, one far more devious than she would ever suspect, who’s set out to make Sookie’s world come crashing down.
The World According to Me, Myself and I! 