Relationship Problems Abound for Sookie Stackhouse in Club Dead

The the third installment of the Sookie Stackhouse series, Club Dead, Sookie is not trying to find out who is murdering women in her home town of Bon Temps (Dead Until Dark), nor is she trying to figure out who murdered one of her friends (Living Dead in Dallas). No there isn’t any killing in the town of Bon Temps. Instead, there is some betrayal, relationship slumps, and some making out with a Were.

My favorite part about Club Dead is that Bill’s character takes a bit of a nose dive. He’s always been a bit distant with Sookie and Sookie never really presses him for answers. So, when Bill disappears, she’s heartbroken and upset, but she knows that he is not telling the whole truth. Thus the relationship dilemna and some conflict (it can’t be rosy all of the time). Bill betrays Sookie; yet, she decides despite his betrayal, she is going to save him with the help of Eric, another vampire, and Alcide, a Were.

The introduction of the werewolves in the series was to be expected. Of course, Alcide is really hot and Sookie is attracted to him. However, I found his character a bit of a bore. Alcide has an ex-girlfriend, Debbie, who is not very nice and causes some problems for Sookie. I’ve always found the jealous ex angle kind of boring and not all that interesting. Girls are fighting all the time in real life, so I try to steer it away from it in my literary life because it’s everywhere anyway. Nonetheless, the ex-girlfriend conflict isnt a huge part of the book, so I could get over it.

Club Dead did not disappoint and now with all the relationship drama, I’m even more hooked onto this series. I think that Sookie could do with less suitors and maybe some more girlfriends. I’m thinking at some point with all this blood sucking that’s going around and all the making out she does, at some point some communicable disease is going to be caught and that is not going to make for an interesting plotline. I could just see the headline in the Bon Temps newspaper: ”Huge Cold Sore Outbreak After Girl Kisses Half of Louisiana and Mississippi.” I’m just saying, it could happen.

Club Dead was read as part of Beth Fish Read’s Sookie Stackhouse Reading Challenge.

My Sookie Stackhouse Reviews:

• Dead Until Dark: Direct To the Punch, Weird Cover, and Odd Vampire Names
• Living Dead in Dallas: Sookie Stackhouse: The Hottest Girl Around (in Dallas, Anyway)

Book Source: Purchased from Target in Eden Prairie, MN

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• Book Review: Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris
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