Charlaine Harris' latest Sookie book info is up!

ana-mish-ana · September 3rd, 2009, 06:10 PM

Headsup- just stumbled across this for the latest Sookie book- Dead In The Family book 10 in the long running series.
Sounds like Eric fans can rejoice!
SciFiGuy.ca: Blurb Preview - "Dead in the Family" by Charlaine Harris

greysfang · September 4th, 2009, 10:39 AM

Sweet!!! Should be great.

Laurent · September 4th, 2009, 10:46 AM

Good deal.

I wish Charlaine would get on with some of her other series too, like Aurora Teagarden, for example.

greysfang · September 4th, 2009, 10:51 AM

I haven't read any of the Aurora's. Should I?

Laurent · September 4th, 2009, 11:21 AM

I've read some of all her series - Sookie Stackhouse, Aurora Teagarden, Harper Connelly, and I'm working on the first Lily Bard right now - and I think Aurora is my favorite out of all of them. They're all so different, they're hard to compare to each other. Sookie is fully entrenched in the supernatural, Harper is too to a certain degree (she's able to clairvoyantly locate dead bodies), but Aurora is realistic. There's no hocus pocus going on - she's just a regular person. You do have to suspend belief to believe so much murder occurs to one person in a town of 15,000 people, but they're well-written.

ana-mish-ana · September 4th, 2009, 12:39 PM

I think Charlaine said she was open to more - but at the moment shes busy with the Harper books and Sookie. Shes also recently signed up to do more up to book 13 I think with Sookie so we have a few more.
There is also a compilation of all the short stories out this fall - Touch of the Dead I think its called.

**NoDayButToday** · September 4th, 2009, 01:54 PM

Thanks for the heads up on the short story compilation. I've only read the main books (and not all of them, starting book 8 now), so I preordered this one. Was called A Touch of Dead.

ana-mish-ana · September 4th, 2009, 02:01 PM

Oh I also forgot to add - Charlaine has a new anthology out - dont think its related to the Sookie series but I have ordered it just because Ilona Andrews and Nalini Singh is in this as well as Meljean Brooks. If you all enjoyed the Sookie series I cant say enough good things about these authors (especialy Ilona Andrews Love her Kate Daniels series.)

darksithbunny · September 4th, 2009, 02:13 PM

Charlaine Harris Official Website

greysfang · September 4th, 2009, 02:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Laurent

I've read some of all her series - Sookie Stackhouse, Aurora Teagarden, Harper Connelly, and I'm working on the first Lily Bard right now - and I think Aurora is my favorite out of all of them. They're all so different, they're hard to compare to each other. Sookie is fully entrenched in the supernatural, Harper is too to a certain degree (she's able to clairvoyantly locate dead bodies), but Aurora is realistic. There's no hocus pocus going on - she's just a regular person. You do have to suspend belief to believe so much murder occurs to one person in a town of 15,000 people, but they're well-written.

Ah yes, now I remember. i didn't want to read Aurora because it was non-fantasy.

marina · September 7th, 2009, 10:24 PM

I just read the first two in the Sookie series. I lost interest in the third one because there wasn't much Bill in it.

Nevan · September 7th, 2009, 10:47 PM

Oooh, I'm glad to hear there is a compilation of the short stories coming out! I was interested in them, but not enough to purchase several books for a few chapters. There's one, I believe, that tells a lot of Hadley's (Sookie's cousin that they showed at the end of the last episode, only that was not anything like the Hadley in the books, but that's okay) back story that I was interested in. Thanks for the info!!

Nevan · September 7th, 2009, 10:51 PM

Spoiler about the new book, which will spoil the TV series for those of you who haven't read the books: Bill comes down with a disease that only a blood relative can fix ... well, we know he's got a few of those around!! And he helped them out extensively ... I wonder if they'll return the favor?

Sasha · September 8th, 2009, 10:02 AM

I don't know. I read somewhere she "couldn't understand" the Eric frenzy going on right now. What part of hot-ass Swedish vampire hunk don't you understand? I'm not sure that bodes well for how the books ultimately turn out. I won't read them, regardless.

Nevan · September 8th, 2009, 10:52 AM

^^^ It's kind of hard to read where she's going with the story, honestly. I was one of the ones a bit disappointed with the last book. It seemed very rushed and way over edited. I hate to say that because I love her books as a whole, just wasn't "in love" with the last one. Sookie and Eric were supposed to talk, supposed to talk, supposed to talk ... and then never wind up talking. Through the whole book. In her writing, IMO, she is definitely pro-Eric even though she keeps Bill always swooning in the background ... I do have to admit, there were quite a few times that Bill was in a scene for just a few moments and they were sweet and touching. But Eric ... sex on a freaking stick. She wrote him that way.