Dead to the World
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- ISBN13: 9780441019342
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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“With the sure touch of a master” (Crescent Blues), Charlaine Harris delivers “the sort of vampire thrills that make Laurell Hamilton’s Anita Blake novels so well loved” (Locus). In Sookie Stackhouse-a Southern cocktail waitress with a supernatural gift-Harris has a made a heroine like few others, and a series that puts the bite back in vampire fiction. Now the hit series launches into hardcover for Sookie’s largest twist-filled adventure yet.Amazon.com Review
From Emma Bull’s War for the Oaks to Laurell K. Hamilton’s Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series, from The X-Files to Buffy the Vampire Slayer, creators are mixing ancient European myths and legends with modern American pop culture. Incorporating influences ranging from blaxploitation movies and erotic novels to tabloid staples like UFOs and Elvis, authors and directors are making a new mythology for the strip-mall, tract-house, cell-phone America of the new millennium.
One of the best-known and best writers of the new American mythology is Charlaine Harris. Dead to the World is the fourth novel in her Anthony Award-winning Southern Vampire series. It continues the tale of psychic waitress Sookie Stackhouse, who has fallen out with her undead lover, Bill. Bill has no sooner departed for Peru, than Sookie finds the head vampire, Eric, running naked and terrified through the rural night. She helps Eric, and discovers his memory has been ruined by a coven of unscrupulous, astonishingly powerful witches, newly arrived in her tiny Louisiana town, and offering a huge reward for Eric. Sookie tries to hide Eric, but her brother sees him–and immediately disappears. And Sookie finds herself caught in a war among witches, vampires, and werewolves. –Cynthia Ward
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In Book 3 Bill the Vampire is kidnapped and out of action for virtually the entire book. In Book 4 (Dead to the World) he has gone (inexplicably) to Peru. I kept reading and reading, expecting him to return, because he is a complex and high-quality character. The characters that replaced him in the tale line are one-dimenional, and there are too many of them. The whole series seems to spin out of control. I finally gave up on the book about 2/3 through and didn`t end it.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I don’t want to talk terribly about this book by Charlaine Harris because she seems like a very bubbly, fun, leader. You could feel her personality coming out through the tale and it made you laugh reasonably regularly. But, overall I did not delight in the storyline. It is most likely the case that this genre is not for me and not the fact that the book was terrible.
I was able to end the book in a pretty fleeting amount of time, which should reinforce the fact that the book was not a horrible one. I just did not delight in the tale. It was a lot of well “he’s here …and she’s there”…and blah blah. I was not drawn in and despite the fact that the book is a fantasy novel I still feel that the storyline should be believable in its own context. This book is way over the top and not even believable in its own genre. But, it is most likely meant to be this way.
Anyways, if you delight in “barbie books” Pink gossipy princess books and you also delight in fantasy then this is a excellent twist for you. But, if it wasn’t for the sexual content I would say this type of storyline overall is meant for a much younger audience *YAWN*
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
I don’t see anything exciting about this book. It was a lackluster shadow of LKH’s vamp tales; sort of like Anita Blake on tranquilizers–ELEPHANT tranquilizers.
The voice used for the tale–Sookie Stackhouse–was too dry and uninteresting; and I’m not one of persons who has a problem with first person narrative. Two of the best series around today, LKH’s Anita Blake, and Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander, use first person, and they are riveting.
This is just too laid back for me–and I take place to like laid back, which is why Patricia Gaffney and Judith Ivory rate so high on my list of must-haves. But I practically snored through the sex scenes, and the rest of it was just too dull; I never got to like this girl with the should-have-been-amusing-but-was-just-weird name.
She thought of herself as the girl everyone else thinks is weird, and by the time I was about a third into the book, I thought she WAS weird. There was just this overall “I’m a dead-end (no pun proposed) person, living a dead-end life” feel to the book that I couldn’t get past. It was as if she were a name who had agreed up on life before she even tried it.
I mean, she’s a cocktail waitress with no future ambition to be anything else, who ends up taking money for doing something she should have done–Anita would have–for nothing. (And this book does beg for comparisons agreed its similarity to some aspects of LKH’s work. Sadly, it suffers by persons comparisons.)
Won’t place a spoiler here by adage what she should have done, but she just doesn’t come across as a name who really cares for anyone else, or who anyone else really cares about either–not even her own brother. (You get the feeling he’s only asking for money for her so he can borrow.)If nobody else cares about her, why should we?
And if she were just a bit more sharp–why not have her question for the money herself?–she would at least have had some edge to her. As a replacement for, she’s an ill-defined, amorphous blob, with no sharp edges, like a no-stout, no-salt diet of English ‘cuisine’. Yuk.
Sad to say, the leader provides us with absolutely no reason to care about this character. Sookie is nothing special, in character, in intellect, in personality; she’s just blah, a loser and too bone idle even to care. Worse, she seems to reflect we won’t notice, which indicates she thinks WE’RE losers too. I should like this person? No.
The whole book is the forced interactions of a bunch of characters who seem disconnected from themselves and each additional. The characters have no emotional investment in themselves, anyone else, or even much in what’s going on; even when they ‘rally for war’, it’s half-hearted and hard to judge (characters that have lived such long and treacherous lives don’t have any better thought of how to go about taking out the enemy than what’s shown here? Please.). It makes it impossible to invest anything in them yourself.
Even the ‘Bubba’ thing, which should have and could have been an original and appealing touch, falters in the hands of this writer so that it seems–well, stupid.
I’d had some high recommendations from a few people–should have remembered they also recommended K. MacGregor’s Sword Of Darkness and Savannah Russe’s Beyond The Pale–for this book. I suppose if your reading tastes aren’t very broad or varied, it would seem like a decent read to you. But it never took off at all; despite dramatic situations and the introduction of what should have been but weren’t appealing characters, this book was like reading an obituary–so I guess you could say it WAS aptly named. (Sure place me to sleep.*G*)
I try to consider additional reading levels when I give a review; there are persons of us who have a wider reading experience, and there are persons of us who are maybe still in junior high school or such, and just starting out. This is the only reason I give this book 3 and a half stars; I feel that for persons whose reading level is junior high school or not more than, this book might seem pretty excellent.
But for anyone out of jr. high, I really reflect this book is more a one to two star read; something you’d read if you had nothing else to read, or (as I did) simply because you told a name else you would; I wouldn’t have finished it otherwise.
I can forgive a lot in a writer if they can just give me characters I can care about, and plots or situations that are appealing; sadly, Ms. Harris fails to do either.
I won’t be reading any additional of her books–unless I get roped into it again.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
The attraction of the southern vampire series for me, (and the reason I have recommended it to several others) is the relationship between Bill and Sookie. In Dead to the World and Club Dead Bill was hardly even mentioned. While Dead to the World was entertaining, it was just not the same lacking Bill and Sookie being together. I do not know if I will continue reading this series if that relationship does not resume. You can not just place out such a main character like Bill and continue the tale. The chemistry between Bill and Sookie was what first got me hooked on this series. Charlaine Harris, what is incorrect with you??? Bill needs to be reintroduced into this series or it will die. The readers want that excitment back that was made by the relationship of Bill and Sookie. BRING BILL BACK. I honestly do not reflect I will continue reading this series if it continues on the path it is now.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
I ongoing watching the show on HBO and like everyone else; I fell in like with it. It made me want to read the books. The first 2 I devoured. The 3rd was okay. I was hoping that the Sookie Bill relationship would resolve. But this book was ridiculously horrible. I despised Eric’s character in it. Sookie was off her game. And no Bill!!!! I miss Bill. I am going to read the others, but I am hoping that they get better and that Bill is back in the picture. I know that that show is not following the 1st book exactly and I am pleased about that. I hope the show continues on this path because if we loose Bill in the show, I’m gonna stop watching!
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5