Club Dead (Sookie Stackhouse/True Blood, Book 3) Paperback – April 29, 2003

CLUB DEAD, the third installment in Charlaine Harris's well-known Sookie Stackhouse series. As with the first two in the series, CLUB DEAD is fun, quirky, and delightfully entertaining. In fact, all the books in the Southern Vampire Mysteries series are perfect summer reads; they take you away from everyday cares and woes, and immerse you in adventure, romance, and the paranormal.This time, Sookie is on her way to Jackson, Mississippi. Bill has gone missing, and Eric has sent her to the infamous CLUB DEAD to find out what has happened. But Sookie has other reasons for wanting to find Bill - it seems that Bill has betrayed her and has run off with his former lover, Lorena. Needless to say, Sookie is NOT PLEASED, and in her more than confused state, finds herself attracted to Alcide, a werewolf who has been sent to protect her. More conflicted than ever, Sookie must find Bill, fend off Eric, and deal with her feeling for Alcide, all without getting killed herself.Sookie continues to be a lovable, interesting, charming character, one that starting to feel like a real friend. There are very few characters to whom I get emotionally attached: Dirk Pitt (Clive Cussler), Harry Dresden (Jim Butcher), and Natasha Chamberlain (Christy Tillery French) are the only three that I wait breathlessly for each year. But now, I am adding Sookie Stackhouse to that short list. In the space of two short weeks this summer, I read all 10 Sookie Stackhouse books, and I still want more. Sookie (like the other three characters mentioned above) has become a friend, someone I will look forward to seeing every year. I love strong, wacky, independent characters, and Sookie certainly fits that bill. When things get tough and downright dirty, Sookie is a no nonsense kind of girl who spits in trouble's eye and does what she needs to do. I also like Charlaine Harris's easy-breezy, faced-paced writing style. It is friendly, action-packed, and page turning.CLUB DEAD is an excellent continuation of a strong and pleasurable series. It is pure enjoyment, satisfying brain candy, and just plain fun. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED, especially for all the Sookie-lovers out there.

Sookie Stackhouse had noticed a change in her boyfriend, Bill, a vampire. Instead of spending his evenings with her, he has been spending them alone in his home working on something that he refuses to share with Sookie. More than a little hurt that Bill doesn't completely trust her after all she has done for him, Sookie is less than pleased to find out that Bill has disappeared while on his "business trip" to Jackson, MI and that he has supposedly reunited with his ex, the lovely vampire Lorena. Eric, Bill's sexy and oh-so-interested-in-taking-Bill's-place-in-Sookie's-life vampire boss, arranges for Sookie to go to Jackson and to find out what has happened to Bill. Knowing that he cannot go along to protect her himself, Eric sends the very attractive werewolf, Alcide, to act as her bodyguard.When Sookie gets to Jackson, Alcide helps her get into Josephine's, affectionately nicknamed "Club Dead" by regulars. The club attracts a unique mixture of vampires, were-creatures and other supernaturals who don't always get along together. Of course, Sookie attracts some unwanted attention and makes some new friends and enemies right off the bat. She also finds out that Bill is in Jackson and that he is with Lorena. Sookie is unsure if she even wants to keep looking for him after that piece of news, but she knows that she has to get Bill back so that Eric can get whatever information out of him that he needs. So Sookie plunges into the fray and uses all of her considerable wiles to locate Bill, free him and then decide what she is going to do from there...Club Dead is the third book in the Southern Vampire series and it is a great continuation of the hilarious and sexy world of Sookie Stackhouse. The more books I read about Sookie, the more I like her. She is a wonderful character and Harris portrays her very well. She is much more complex than she seems and she always makes me laugh. The plot was a little more convoluted than it needed to be, but it was all in good fun and it was such a fast, fun read that the book was over long before I was ready for it to end anyway. Harris does leave the reader with a bit of a cliffhanger ending and so she leaves us panting for more and wondering what Sookie is going to do next! A must read for Harris or vampire lovers - you won't be disappointed!

I’m a very slow reader since I like to savor every paragraph. It was very difficult for me to interrupt my reading to do my every day day stuff.

Arrived a couple of days late (but that was to be expected with the current postal delays), is exactly as described by seller.

Alles super! Danke sehr!

The TV series stays pretty true to the book, however I love the little extra's in the book that you don't see in the small screen. Really enjoy Charlaine Harris' writing style, it's light, funny and get's you addicted from the first page. A must read if you are a True Blood fan.

Ce 3e tome de la série se dévore: le couple Sookie-Bill connaît quelques tourments qui permettent à l'histoire de ne pas s'essoufler.Le personnage d'Eric est développé. Sookie, contrairement à une héroïne comme Anita Blake, demeure très humaine et,de ce fait, très attachante: ni victimiste ni indifférente aux épreuves qu'elle traverse, elle demeure attachée à ses valeurs et fait preuve de courage.Ce tome nous fait découvrir un peu plus le monde des loups-garous, monde qui sera plus amplement décrit dans les tomes suivants.J'aime beaucoup la fraîcheur de cette série.