Road Trip to the Big D

Living Dead in Dallas by: Charlaine Harris

In the second installment of the Sookie Stackhouse novels, Sookie has a brush with death as a creature sends a message to Eric Northman, the vampire bar owner of Fangtasia in Shreveport. She is torn to pieces by this monster and to save her life, the vampires, including Bill and Eric, have to suck the poison out of her blood stream before it kills her. Because they did this great service to her, she now owes them. There has been a vampire in their nest go missing. Eric sends Bill and Sookie to Dallas to read the human minds around the situation so that they can find the missing vamp. Also, back home in Bon Temps, one of her co-workers winds up dead and no one seems to care about who the murderer is and maybe who is next. With some crazy twist and turns, Sookie is in some crazy trouble while she’s in Dallas and then when she comes back home as well.

I enjoyed Living Dead in Dallas. There were some more introductions to not just new vampires, but new creatures as well. Sookie has quickly realized that her comfortable world where she was the freak, is not as normal as she once thought.

We get to know Eric a lot more. We were introduced to him briefly in Dead Until Dark, but within this installment we get to know his character a little better. Eric is quickly becoming one of my favorite characters. He is drawn to Sookie, I can’t tell if there is something about her that draws her to him or if he just wants her because he can’t have her. I love his sarcasm, and whit. He says things to Sookie that I just can’t believe, but he keeps me laughing. There are a couple of great scenes with him at the end of the book that are great! There is one great Love triangle beginning to take place right before my eyes.