This is the 13th and final installment in the Southern Vampire Mystery Series, aka, the True Blood books. Sometimes, you finish a series and you are left wanting more. This was not one of those times. These have been my beach books, my brain candy, and I have enjoyed them for what they are, but the thrill was gone by the end of the book. After so long in Sookie’s world the characters have become predictable, as have the plot lines. Or, when there is […]
Sookie + Supes = Madcap Hijinks
This Charlaine Harris series is my guilty pleasure, the dirty secret I try not to read in public. I don’t think they are particularly great, but sometimes when life is tough you just need brain candy, and this is where I turn. Ironically, I read the next book in the series before this one because I simply didn’t realize I had skipped it. Her writing style is such that each book spends half the time explaining what happened before, and it had been a while […]
Sookie…you should have quit 7 crises ago.
The Sookie Stackhouse novels are the perfect vacation read: total brain candy, a little flash and not a lot of substance. I flip through them quickly and eagerly, and enjoy them for their tawdry entertainment, but don’t may them much mind. In fact, I only realized after the fact that I somehow skipped book 11, which I already owned. I didn’t notice because it had been a while since I took a look at the series, and because Harris spends so much time painfully rehashing […]
A small Texas town is crossroad of supernatural secrets
I’m a big fan of Charlaine Harris as she tends to write humorous mystery tales with a big dollop of hot romance. I’ve read all of the Sookie Stackhouse, Harper Connelly and Lily Bard books. As the last few Sookie books sucked, I wasn’t super keen to return to her body of work. However, once I learned Manfred Bernardo from the Harper books was the protagonist, my interest shot up by 100 percent. Manfred moves to Midnight into a house owned by no other than the handsome […]
Here She Goes Again
Charlaine Harris recently wrapped up her Southern Vampire Mystery series, more famously known as “The Sookie Stackhouse” novels. In my opinion she should have done so much sooner but one can look to previous CBR reviews I’ve posted to get into that. I heard Harris started a new series in a new location and though Sookie’s world became stale and tiring, that isn’t to say Harris is incapable of having a new one that is light and fun and full of mystery. Enter Midnight Crossroad, […]
Not as much fun as Real Vampires
I read this book a year or two ago, but I completely forgot that I had, picked it up from the library for some light entertainment, and got about three-quarters of the way through before I realised that the gory crimes and girly characters and burgeoning love triangles seemed strangely familiar. So…it’s basically unmemorable–generic in all senses of the word; indeed, it attempts to play with how closely it follows the procedures and developments of detective novels by being set among a group of avid […]