Review - Deadlocked by Charlaine Harris

Title: Deadlocked
Author: Charlaine Harris
Publisher: Victor Gollancz
Publish Date: May 1, 2012

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At this point in the Sookie Stackhouse series, book #12, I am at a point in reading where I never thought I would arrive. I could in fact read these books til the day I die. I completely and utterly infatuated with Sookie and the other characters in these books. I really hope Harris never stops writing these books. I would love to read them til Sookie is turned vampire or old and grey - like I will be one day. It is honestly like having coffee with an old friend.

It absolutely amazes me that Charlaine Harris can keep Sookie so prim and proper, yet pull her into crazy situations. I love that she would put any of her friends before herself, but somehow manages to survive each time.

I find it truly sad that she is struggling from one relationship to another, though I suppose dating a blood sucker has it's natural hazards. One being that he is dead. The other that he needs live people blood to survive. The other that he is a well respected vampire that others would like to kill or have a hold over.  The list goes on with danger.

This is the first series I have ever read and then bought again in order to reread. I have yet to reread a book all the way through. I remember them too easily. These books will be the first, and maybe the only, ones I continue to read and read and read.

Thank you Charlaine Harris for an awesome series!!

Summary -

With Felipe de Castro, the Vampire King of Louisiana (and Arkansas and Nevada), in town, it’s the worst possible time for a body to show up in Eric Northman’s front yard—especially the body of a 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 out to make Sookie’s world come crashing down.

Review - Dead Reckoning by Charlaine Harris (#11 in Sookie Stackhouse Series)

Title: Dead Reckoning
Sookie Stackhouse Series #11
Author: Charlaine Harris
Publish Date: may 3, 2011
Publisher: Ace Hardcover
Hardcover, 325 Pages

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Saint gave me the first couple of books in this series for my birthday a couple years back. It was the first birthday gift he ever gave me. He not only was aware it was my birthday, he gave me a present that was meaningful, thoughtful and totally me. I have no idea how he did it because I am not sure even I would have picked out these books. I didn't even know about them at the time.

After reading the first one, I couldn't put the rest down. I exchanged the first ones for the next in the series at the used bookstore. (I am such a horrible girlfriend) Sadly, I wish I still had those, not only for sentimental purposes, but because I believe I have finally found the first set of books I will reread over and over again. I have never understood people who reread books, I always remember them so clearly that they bore me, but these have so much going on and so many wonderfully evolving characters. I feel so at ease with this series.

I really wasn't sure what to expect when I heard Charlaine Harris was releasing another book. It had been so long since I read them, I wasn't sure I even still liked them. Could she really come out with one I liked as much as I remember liking the first ones (all ten of them)? Is that really possible?

OH YEAH!

I figured out these books remind me of reading growing up. They are like good friends I want to spend every afternoon with. They are playful, strong, surprising and I want to hug them til their eyes pop out.

Sookie is such a true character and I have been so surprised that she has stayed that way through the entire series. I keep expecting her to fall from grace, but she only gets more human and more likable as it continues. Also, I find myself searching to see if all the commotion that Sookie gets into becoming tiring and mundane, but NO it doesn't. Somehow Harris has figured out how to keep it fresh and new and exciting. Eric is so sexy and wonderfully mysterious and yet he too, is continuing to surprise me. I thoroughly enjoyed seeing Bill again in this book. His appearances might be foreshadowing another love triangle. I loved how Pam's character really came into the human emotions this time. Hunter, Sookie's nephew who is also telepathic, is a nice presence. I cannot wait to see where Harris takes it.

It's odd to love a series of books so much that I continue to speculate where each character will go and what will happen next. I have to say, though I love a good romantic ending, I pray Harris keeps coming out with these books. I don't want them to end. Ever.