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Dead As A Doornail by Charlaine Harris
02/02/2008 . Source: Sue Davies 
pub: Gollancz. 295 page paperback. Price: £ 6.99 (UK). ISBN: 978-0-575-08043-0). Buy Dead As A Doornail in the USA - or Buy Dead As A Doornail in the UK  check out website: www.orionbooks.co.uk
Sookie Stackhouse can just about cope with life as long as people and vampires stop interfering in it. Reeling from her blissful encounter with the thankfully amnesiac Eric, she resolves to get back on track. How is she going to do that? She has to cope with her brother, Jason, bitten by a were-panther who is now subject to his own particular monthlies. Then there is Alcide, who seems determined to a wooing-go with her. Taking her to a were-pack funeral doesn't seem like much of a first date though.
The longer she lives, the more Sookie's eyes are open to just how much of the 'other' there is out there. But living a long life is quite a difficult prospect. First her house burns down under suspicious circumstances and then there is the sniper who seems to have it in for the 'were' and their friends.
Needing extra help in the bar, Sookie acquire Charles, the one-eyed vampire from Eric but asking favours always gets her into trouble and she can't seem to stay out of that. There are still consequences from her drastic actions taken with Eric's help ('Dead To The World') and Eric really wants to know what they got up to when he was temporarily 'not himself'. Sookie would die rather than tell him but has a lingering hope that they might have some kind of future but there is a whole lot of temptation out there for a hot-blooded girl.
Charlaine Harris switches easily into Sookie Stackhouse mode and produces a good, solid story once again. To keep our interest she continues to introduce new elements into the mythology created for the Stackhouse series. It's a clever and fun way to keep adding to the trials of Sookie.
Sue Davies
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