Each species has its own agenda, and humans have varying degrees of knowledge and attitudes about their existence. Vampires are legal citizens, but the other races remain in the shadows while they evaluate the success of the vampires’ “outing” to the humans. Sookie’s life and limbs are under such assault due to the fact that her rural world is increasingly peopled (I use the term loosely) by all nature of undead and supernatural beings – shape-shifters, witches, fairies, and other magical creatures abound. Too bad she had to belatedly add “or shot” to that resolution!) (You’ve got to love a heroine whose earnest New Year’s resolution in the last book was not to get beaten up anymore. She’s funny when you least expect it and wise when you think she might be simple. Sure, I love the guys (there are getting to be a lot of them), but Sookie’s good-natured, wry, down-to-earth practicality in the face of disturbing events wins me over time and again. Sookie is the reason why this series works so well for me. I’ve enjoyed all the books in this series and am happy to report that Dead as a Doornail is a worthy follow-up to the last in the series, Dead to the World. Dead as a Doornail is book five in the Southern Vampire series told in the first-person by telepathic small-town Louisiana bar waitress Sookie Stackhouse.
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