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Dead in the Family
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A True Blood Novel
By
Charlaine Harris
| Rating: | | | Format: | Paperback, 320 pages | | Release Date: | 10 June 2010 | If you think your family relationships are complicated, think again: you haven't seen anything like the ones in Bon Temps, Louisiana. Sookie Stackhouse is dealing with a whole host of family problems, ranging from her own kin (a non-human fairy and a telepathic second cousin) demanding a place in her life, to her lover Eric's vampire sire, an ancient being, who arrives with Eric's 'brother' in tow at a most inopportune moment. And Sookie's tracking down a distant relation of her ailing neighbour (and ex), Vampire Bill Compton. In addition to the multitude of family issues complicating her life, the werewolf pack of Shreveport has asked Sookie for a special favour, and since Sookie is an obliging young woman, she agrees. But this favour for the wolves has dire results for Sookie, who is still recovering from the trauma of her abduction during the Fairy War. About the AuthorCharlaine Harris is the author of several internationally bestselling series. She is married, with children, and lives in Arkansas. ReviewsThanks to being struck by lightning, Harper Connelly can see dead people. In her fourth outing (after An Ice Cold Grave), Harper and her stepbrother Tolliver are back in Texas, meeting with clients and visiting their baby stepsisters. Tolliver's father, Matthew, reappears, too, this time clean of drugs. As if family tensions aren't tough enough, they must dodge mysterious bullets. Could the shooting be related to Harper's Texas clients? Verdict While Harris's tightly paced mystery is a good series entry, newbies should read the first three books because the story line and characters develop chronologically. Some readers may also be offended by the romantic relationship between stepsiblings Harper and Tolliver. This title will be most appreciated by Harris fans and readers who enjoy paranormal mysteries. [See Prepub Mystery, LJ 7/09.]-Crystal Renfro, Georgia Inst. of Technology Lib., Atlanta Copyright 2009 Reed Business Information. In bestseller Harris's solid fourth Harper Connelly mystery (after 2007's An Ice Cold Grave), Harper, who can not only locate bodies but also deduce the cause of death, and her stepbrother, Tolliver Lang, are summoned to Texas by members of the wealthy Joyce family, who are looking for answers behind the death of their patriarch, Rich. But when an act of violence threatens the pair, Harper realizes that the circumstances behind Rich's death may have ties to her own troubled childhood in nearby Texarkana. Further complicating matters, Tolliver and his drug addict father, who's recently been paroled, have an uneasy reunion that stirs up long-buried memories about the unsolved disappearance eight years earlier of Harper's older sister, Cameron. Harper and Tolliver's relationship, which blossomed into romance in Ice Cold, is the beating heart of the story and helps smooth over the somewhat rushed and questionably coincidental plot. (Nov.) Copyright 2009 Reed Business Information. |
| Publisher: | Gollancz | | ISBN: | 0575089334 |
| EAN: | 9780575089334 | | Dimensions: | 21.0 x 135.0 x 2.0 centimeters (0.34 kg) |
| Age Range: |
15+ years |
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 – Customer review on 07/09/2009
This is not actually the blurb for, 'Dead in the Family,' but 'Grave Sight,' the first in a new series by this author. It is not connected to the Sookie Stackhouse world whatsoever, as far as I can tell. Someone probably better change this blurb to the real one, as it confused me personally for ever such a long time.
Sookie Stackhouse has finally settled into a relationship with the Viking vampire Eric, and her errant brother Jason seems to have his life in order, too. But all the other people in Sookie's life - Eric himself, her former lover Bill, her friend and boss Sam - are having family problems. Eric's maker shows up with Eric's 'brother' in tow, the ailing Bill can only be healed by a blood sibling, and Sam's brother's marriage is about to take place . . . or will it? The furor raised by the coming out of the two-natured has yet to settle; some people are just not ready to sit down to dinner with a man who turns into a dog. And Sookie herself is still recovering from her last ordeal. She's definitely improving, physically and mentally, but she's always going to have some dark moments now. The werewolves tell her that there have been strange and ominous passers-by in the Stackhouse woods; now Sookie is about to come face-to-face with one of her more distant relatives . . .
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 – Customer review on 01/07/2011
Sookie is coming to terms both physically and emotionally with the outcome of the recent Fairy War. Not only have lives been lost including Claudine's, her cousin and fairy godmother, but others have left her with no prospect of returning. Amelia is returning to New Orleans and Niall and the fairies have left this world for their fairy land never to return.
For a woman with little family remaining Sookie is inundated with family requests. Claude, Sookie's gorgeous and arrogant cousin, asks to move in but he is not the only fairy prowling around Sookie's home. Hunter's father Remy asks for assistance with Hunter's gift and Jason, thankfully, is settling down again spending more quality time with his sister.
But Sookie is not the only one to be affected by family. Bill, still suffering from silver poisoning, pays a family visit and is intern paid a visit by long lost 'family'. And with her recent marriage to Eric, and the blood bond between them, Sookie is feeling the effects of the in-laws more acutely then ever when Eric is plagued by 'family' of his own.
Dead in the Family sees family descend and their problems dictate over the lives of Sookie and her friends as only family can. But when your family feuds involve vampires and fairies someone is likely to end up seriously maimed, if not staked. But you can hardly refuse family, even if they are unwelcome and unwanted. Another Sookie tale that is as addictive and bloody as ever.
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– Customer review on 28/09/2010
sookie is recovering from her wounds from the war, she is in a relationship with eric, things are going fine until a body is sniffed out by the were's on her land, sh#t hits the fan when erics maker and his brother show up, and a fairy with a grugde is after sookie, but with all these things going on, and sookies good nature and wish for bill to be happy she finds the person who can fill that hole within Bill, and sookie turns witch doctor for a bit for her were friends.
as a fan of the books and the show i think that as long as you expect that the show and the books are different, you will love them.
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– Customer review on 12/11/2009
And "A True Blood Novel". Eh??
I'm really seriously over True Blood everything being splashed all over these books. First the covers, now the extended marketing.
As we are constantly being told, True Blood is a separate entity to the Southern Vampire Mysteries. True Blood is BASED on these books, it is not an accurate reproduction. True Blood fans will get some rather rude shocks picking these books up and seeing how the author intended them to be seen.
And yep, that blurb is wrong!
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