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Dead as a Doornail (Southern Vampire Mysteries, Book 5): I actually don’t remember anything outstanding about this one. Maybe it’s because I just speed-read through this one. Maybe it’s because I’m not as interested in the were-animal storyline. The whole sniper who’s out to get all the shape-shifters was yawn-worthy, and [...]

I dove right into Dead to the World (Southern Vampire Mysteries, Book 4) after finishing the previous book, Club Dead. In Dead to the World, Eric gets cursed with amnesia, witches appear, and more were-animal stuff happens. It’s good that Charlaine Harris paced the introduction of all the supernatural characters separately. Readers would [...]

I’m voraciously going through the Southern Vampire Mysteries series, if you can’t tell by now.  This weekend, I finished Club Dead (Southern Vampire Mysteries, Book 3).  The change of scenery and the introduction of werewolves was refreshing in this book, but Bill’s fall from grace was not. To say I was disappointed in his actions [...]

The Southern Vampire Mysteries series by Charlaine Harris moves right along, as evident by how quickly I finished the second book, Living Dead in Dallas. This time, Sookie Stackhouse takes on a small job in Dallas for the the vampires, or more specifically, Eric the sheriff of Area 5. But that’s not all. [...]

Let the Right One In is a vampire movie done right. It’s not full of flashy special effects, it’s not a sappy love story, and there’s no violence = sex metaphor in it. It’s a film where the feeling of isolation is thick in the air.
The film’s restraint made every scene all the [...]