Sunday, September 23, 2012

Book #48 week #38, Club Dead by Charlaine Harris

I really didn't read anything this week until Friday night. It is just my luck that my library carries several copies of Club Dead, I even saw two last time I was there, but when I need it they are all checked out! So I had to wait to have a copy transferred. It came in on Friday along with another book I've been dying to read and lets just say I didn't accomplish much other than reading this weekend!

I am trying something different this post. I am getting kind of bored just writing synopsis of books, if you wanted that you could just read the cover of the book! So I am going to talk about how I really feel and that means spoilers. So not only will I recap book #2 Living Dead in Dallas I am going to recap book #3 Club Dead as well. So spoiler alert! : )

In Living Dead in Dallas Lafayette is murdered right off the bat and his body found in detective Andy's car. After some probing around it is reveled that Lafayette has been talking to multiple people about his involvement in a secret sex club. Meanwhile Sookie and Bill are fighting and his car breaks down so Sookie storms off. While walking she encounters a strange naked woman, a maenad, who attacks Sookie and cuts her back with her claws. The maenad tells Sookie this is a message for Eric.

Bill takes Sookie to Eric who explains what the woman is and tells Sookie she has been poisoned. The vampires with the help of a strange doctor set her right again and Eric tells Bill and Sookie he has a job for them to do. The pair head to Dallas to investigate a vampire disappearance. Long story short a new cult called "The Fellowship of the Sun" is behind the kidnapping. They want to eradicate vampires. Sookie gets herself kidnapped and almost raped and killed. The missing vampire is set free and all return to the vampire mansion to celebrate. Eric is there undercover and the group is ambushed by the cult members who fire into the house from outside. Sookie is able to "hear" them and shout a warning over the music only the vampires are able to hear, this means the human companions are the ones mowed down. Eric throws himself on top of Sookie and takes a bullet in the process. Nevertheless he enjoys this situation too much while Bill on the other hand is overcome by his vampire nature and goes after the attackers without so much of a thought of Sookie's well being.

Back at home Sookie and Bill break up for a few weeks. Since Bill is out of town Sookie commissions Eric to accompany her to a sex party. Even though she asks him to pretend to be gay, Eric is all to happy to oblige and takes every liberty he can with Sookie while there. Although she is not happy to be there, Sookie's friend, Tara is at the party with her fiance Eggs. Sookie soon learns that three other members of the party are responsible for the murder of Lafayette. Before anything to graphic happens the party is interuppted. Bill, Andy, Sam in his collie form and the maenad are all outside. The maenad kills all the humans at the party except for Eggs and Tara who Eric glamors to forget the events of the evening.

Club Dead
Bill and Sookie's relationship is strained as Bill is spending all his awake time working on a secret project for the (Vampire) Queen of Louisiana. Bill informs Sookie that he must travel alone to Seattle and he should be back in eight weeks or so. Eight weeks! While he is gone Sookie gets attacked by a biker (werewolf) while at work but she is saved by Bubba who has been sent by Eric to protect her. Eric informs Sookie that Bill has disappeared. He was last known to be in Mississippi not Seattle with the woman who changed him, Lorena. Lorena has summoned Bill and then turned on him. Eric goes on to tell Sookie that Bill was going to break off their relationship after making sure she is taken care of financially. Eric then convinces Sookie to go to Mississippi and try to find Bill using her gift. I am really pissed off at Bill at this point!

Eric sets Sookie up with a werewolf named Alcide to accompany her on her trip under the pretense that they are dating so she can get into an exclusive supes only club. Of course there is physical tension between Alcide and Sookie but she manages to keep it in her pants so to speak. One night at the club they have an altercation with Alcide's ex Debbie who is there celebrating her engagement to another man. The second night Sookie ends up getting staked in the side while intervening in a murder attempt. The (vampire) King of Mississippi takes Sookie back to his mansion so she can be healed. Eric is with her by this time, undercover, and he gives her his blood to heal her. He also starts to show her a good time if you catch my drift but they get interrupted by Bubba who has found Bill being tortured in the pool house. The next morning Sookie frees Bill and kills Lorena in the process. She puts Bill in the trunk of a car and drives back to Alcide's apartment. While checking on Bill, Debbie pushes Sookie into the trunk with him and when Bill wakes up he is in desperate need for blood due to the torture. Bill ends up biting Sookie pretty badly and begins raping her before he wakes fully and realizes what he is doing.

Sookie is naturally pissed at Bill and asks Eric to take her home leaving Bill in Mississippi. Eric is happy to help (isn't he always : ) but they get attacked by bikers on the way home and then ambushed at Sookie's house. Miraculously Bill shows up on time to help Eric, who has been shot several times, kill the 6 or 7 attackers. In the end Sookie breaks things off with Bill and rescinds both Eric and Bill's invitation into her home. In a very sweet move Eric does arrange and pay for Sookie's driveway to be re-graveled.

At this point in time I think I am switching to team Eric or maybe even team Alcide. I like Bill and I know he cannot do anything about his vampire commands but I feel he isn't that into his relationship with Sookie. Even though she is a fictional character I cannot help but be jealous of Sookie! Having all these hot men want you all the time must be really difficult ; )

Quote:
“How grateful are you?" he whispered, his mouth hovering over mine. His eyes were very alert now, and his gaze was boring into mine.

"That kind of ruins it, when you say something like that," I said, trying to keep my voice gentle. "You shouldn't want me to have sex with you just because I owe you."

"I don't really care why you have sex with me, as long as you do it," he said, equally gently.”

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