A Touch of Dead (Sookie Stackhouse, #4.1, #4.3, #5.1, #7.1, #8.1)
Charlaine Harris
Meet Sookie Stackhouse! Sookie Stackhouse is everybody's favourite cocktail waitress: a cute bubbly blonde ... who can read minds. But Sookie's far from being the only person in Bon Temps, Louisiana with a handicap, what with the local vampire population demanding their unhuman rights and weres fighting for territory ... In fact, Bon Temps is a pretty lively place these days! A Touch of Dead collects together all the Sookie Stackhouse short stories in one gorgeous volume, and showcases the writing talents of international bestseller Charlaine Harris.
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0These short stories were generally pretty 'meh' for me.
Was nice to read the short story describing Sookie finding out about Hadley's death.
Yes, I remember thinking "WTH, did I miss a book??" around book 6 or 7 when Sookie's cousin Hadley is suddenly dead and she has to go to New Orleans. But I mean, enough is said to be able to understand what has happened in the short story. Plus, Harris says in the companion novel that she regretted putting such vital information into a short story, and wouldn't do so again.
The other short stories seemed a little too well-wrapped-up or cliche. Like Sookie and Amelia going out and being a dynamic detective duo was cringe-y.
And the one where Sookie ends up having sex with that guy who you find out was a faery pretending to be a were?!! I was like WTF Sookie cares so much in the series about who she is intimate with and how she has to have feelings for those men, and she's a little prudish at times. This felt totally out of character to me, and it wasn't made any better by Harris trying to justify this by saying that the story was to demonstrate her great-grandfather's love for her. I mean, what fricking great-grandfather is like "I love my descendant so much that I'm going to arrange a scenario and hire this man to seduce her! She deserves some sex!" Just weird.
Plus, the story of Eric being super excited to have a Dracula party and believing that Dracula would show up, this just sort of dumbed Eric down. Or made him uncharacteristically childish to me. Eric would have been way older than Dracula, and shouldn't have been fooled by the guy who claimed to be D.
Basically read the shorts because I wasn't quite ready to be done with the world.
0Wow. That was bad. There were two typos and no continuity to this at all with the rest of the books. Poorly written (not that she's the greatest of writers but still. Just B.A.D. I feel sorry for anyone that paid 23.95 for it. I read it in a couple of hours. But, if you've read all the rest of the Sookie books, I suppose you should read this as well...but get it from the library!
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