Second book in the fun and sexy series featuring Sookie, human but psychic and a source of great mistrust within her normal human community. The author invests her lead character with a delightful personality. Sookie is conscious of her un-lofty waitressing position, with her bouncing boosom and blondie locks earning her lascivious looks and thoughts from all the supe community, but her endearing lack of confidence and relationship inexperience, means she is constantly surprised with her lustful pursuers and fights the good fight to remain a'Good Southern Belle' faithful unto one. Wll she succeed given the temptations? Kidnapped by baddie right wing kill-em-dead fanatics while on the trail of a missing vampire, almost killed, our Sookie makes us care about her.

Sookie and Bill are set for their next adventure. After the unexplained murders of a number of women in the small town of Bon Temps in Louisiana had been solved by Sookie, she finally hoped that things might settle back down to normal. Well, as normal as you can get with a vampire for a boyfriend. But with the discovery of a new dead body and a promise to keep, things were going to be far from normal.

A body has been found, dead, and its not just any body, it's a friend of Sookie's, and she's determined to use all her skills, her telepathy, to find out who the murderer is. But there is little time to dwell on this matter as Sookie must fulfil a promise to the vampires, a promise that leads her to Dallas, to kidnapers, murderers, traitors and sadists. And that's just the humans.

As with the first book it’s enjoyable and light, however it does seem to lose its way. The books start and ending dealing with the murder seems somewhat tacked on to the bulk of the book as an extra or afterthought. The intrigue and mystery of the initial murder is overshadowed, and then lost, as this murder is quickly forgotten about in favour of a new story line in Dallas, and although the murder is well thought out and terribly interesting, it feels out of place with the main story.

I loved this book different is not the word for it ......Sookie is not Sook and she has to deal with Erics interest as well as Bills .Her mind message to Bobby was really fun and I look forward to reading more of this ladies work in the future

Bloodless boyfriend intrigue.


The limitations of a small town (how many people can you kill and have one left?) means some city adventuring is in store here, due to the undead connections of her shag, and her own unique abilities.

Somewhat risky when they are superstrong and can rip you to pieces, too.

Basically the same quality as the first though, with the same sort of bad cover.


3 out of 5