| Dead as a Doornail: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel |  | Author: Charlaine Harris
Publisher: Ace
Category: eBooks
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Rating:  254 reviews
Sales Rank: 236
Format: Kindle Book
Media: Kindle Edition
Pages: 295
Number Of Items: 1
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
ASIN: B000O76OP4
Publication Date: September 1, 2006
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Small-town cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse has had more than her share of experience with the supernatural-but now it-s really hitting close to home. When Sookie sees her brother Jason-s eyes start to change, she knows he-s about to turn into a were-panther for the first time-a transformation he embraces more readily than most shapeshifters she knows. But her concern becomes cold fear when a sniper sets his deadly sights on the local changeling population, and Jason-s new panther brethren suspect he may be the shooter. Now, Sookie has until the next full moon to find out who-s behind the attacks-unless the killer decides to find her first-
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Dead As A Doornail-Audio Book August 30, 2010
AmScray (Seattle, Wa)
There are parts of this book I find pretty boring and having listened to it several times, I skip. But what really annoys me is that the narrator seems to have forgotten her characters' accents in this book. Eric and Pam have normal voices, yet in the next book she goes right back to the accents she developed in earlier books. It is incredibly annoying to me-enough to make me write a review!
Dead as a Doornail August 29, 2010
Nicole
It had been awhile since I'd read the third book and I've watched the first two seasons of True Blood in the meantime. So, at first it was difficult to keep everything straight in my head. The television series strays from the book so much, I had to remind myself of what had really happened. But, once I was into a few chapters I was reminded how much more I like the books.
The shifters of Bon Temps are being shot. But, since they are still aren't recognized in public, and don't want to be, the police cannot find the connection between the people being shot. Due to his new "were" status Jason Stackhouse is a suspect among the shifters. As if trying to defend her brother wasn't enough to worry about, the Fellowship of the Sun members are apparently out for revenge on Sookie and she's been dragged into elections for a new werewolf leader.
It would be easy to tear apart the stories (How many men can be in love with the same woman?) But, the fact is, the books are just plain fun. Sookie gets in these crazy, dangerous situations and still manages to make humorous observations of the people around her. As for all the men in love with her, somehow they're all appealing in their own way.
 Narrator lost the Southern accent! August 18, 2010
H. Hok (Columbus, Georgia United States)
Johanna Parker has been doing such a good job with the accent up until this book...what happened? She still sounds Southern but not as thick. Also she doesn't put as much into the others characters like she did in the audio books up until this one. I have been listening to the series in succession and the difference is quite noticeable.
Cute August 8, 2010
Joanne Harris (GA USA)
I love the Sookie books, and this one was cute though not as good as the first couple for me. I love the tension between the characters.
 Bloody Filler August 2, 2010
Victoria (Minneapolis, MN)
I don't know if Ms. Harris was a little tired after all the effort she put into the first 4 books but book 5 in the Stackhouse series reads like a drawn out afterthought; a little nonsensical and very often dull. In Doornail there is a sniper on the loose taking out members of the supernatural world. Sookie endures the usual litany of sticky situations and mortal injuries but this time around the story is extremely diluted with pointless commentary and insufferable podunk metaphors ("my face burned like a pack of fire ants"). Cue the banjo.
Furthermore, this book is somewhat hard to follow. Many of the pivotal characters are people/things that have never before been referenced and there are times when the dialogue is completely without context; "I turned to Maryelizabeth and her daughter and thanked them for the glass of water. Maryelizabeth gave me a hostile look and said to her daughter `We should've never sent you to school'". What? What does that have to do with anything? I very often read after I've had a couple (six) glasses of wine but I have a pretty good recollection of the major action items in this story and Maryelizabeth's daughter's education had nothing to do with anything and while we're at it, who the hell is Maryelizabeth?
I mean, I'm going to continue reading the series (if anything it makes the HBO series more fun to watch) but I sincerely hope later stories have a little more umph.
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