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Dead Reckoning
by
Charlaine Harris
paranormal fantasy in a Kindle edition that was published by Gollancz on May 28, 2011 and has 336 pages.
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Other books by this author which I have reviewed include Night's Edge, Death's Excellent Vacation, Must Love Hellhounds, Bite, A Secret Rage, Home Improvement: Undead Edition, Deadlocked, An Apple for the Creature, Dead Ever After, The Sookie Stackhouse Companion, Games Creatures Play, After Dead: What Came Next in the World of Sookie Stackhouse, Indigo, Night Shift, Sleep Like a Baby, The Pretenders, A Longer Fall, An Easy Death, The Russian Cage, Small Kingdoms and Other Stories, Real Murders, A Bone to Pick, Three Bedrooms, One Corpse, Dead Until Dark, The Julius House, Dead Over Heels, A Fool and His Honey, Shakespeare’s Landlord, Last Scene Alive, Shakespeare’s Champion, Poppy Done to Death, Shakespeare’s Christmas, Shakespeare’s Trollop, Shakespeare's Counselor
Eleventh in the Sookie Stackhouse urban fantasy series set in a contemporary Bontemps, Louisiana.
My Take
There is a lot going on and most of it is nasty! Irritatingly, this is a bridge novel in which nothing is resolved. I’d’a given it a 4 but I hate bridges . . . hence the 3.5 rating!
I did appreciate what happened with Victor. . . though I have to wait to find out its ramifications in the next book!
The Story
This is not a fun time for Sookie — first the firebomb at Sam’s, then the mini-war going on between Pam and Eric which seems to have something to do with her, several sets of kidnappers, the family history she learns from Gran’s letter and the legacy she left, Jannalyn’s trickery, Amelia’s betrayal, the very odd personnel she meets at Hooligan’s, the real reason why Claude and Dermot are living with her, the truth she learns from Mr. Cataliades, phew . . .
I ain’t even gonna tell you about Eric!
The Title
I’m guessing the title, Dead Reckoning is about the reckoning that is still to come and all that Sookie can do is continue to chart her course based upon what has occurred in the past.
