Dead as a Doornail, finished 4/22/08

Dead as a Doornail, also by Charlaine Harris, was another good one. Again **** stars. I could hardly put it down. They are easy reads, fascinating in their weirdness, funny, a little bit romantic and definitely entertaining.

Dead as a Doornail review by: Publishers Weekly

Harris's rousing fifth Sookie Stackhouse fantasy-mystery (after 2004's Dead to the World) pits vampires, were-creatures, shifters and one fairy godmother against a sniper with an apparent aversion to nonhumans. If trying to discover who's behind the shootings isn't enough, the telepathic cocktail waitress from Bon Temps, La., has to cope with a few other distractions: her sexy "Were" friend, Alcide Herveaux, needs her help in his father's bid to become the next leader of the local werewolf pack; her boss, Sam Merlotte (a collie in his spare time), gets shot; her house partly burns down; and what's she to do about the handsome vampire bartender who dresses as a pirate at Sam's place? Between one mishap and another, Sookie is one busy gal. Harris does an admirable job of creating a heroine who's not only interesting but completely believable in a world of the strange and the different. Natural and humorous dialogue and a nicely paced plot that doesn't dwell so much on Sookie's old boyfriends help make this entry the best yet in the series.

There's so much going on in this book and so many different kinds of characters/monsters. Surprisingly most seem nice, besides the bad guys of course. Sookie is great in this one, in all of them. I just can't keep up with her love interests. A vamp here, a vamp there, a shifter of this type, etc. etc, good thing she can't be interested in humans because of her telepathic abilities (she can't really read vamps or shifters). Crazy stuff I know, but dern interesting. Check it out.