Summer Reading Program Book #1

Dead and Gone, by Charlaine Harris

The latest in the Sookie Stackhouse series, now made famous by the HBO series "True Blood," D&G includes the elements seen in so many of the prior Sookie books: a mysterious death, tension between various supe factions as well as between Sookie and the men in her life, humor, and steamy supernatural sex. That is the good and the bad of this novel. It's good, because it makes this a fun and familiar ride. It's bad, because after 9 books, I'm starting to wish that our heroine would be allowed some peace in her life without the constant danger as well as get her love life straightened out (personally, I'm rooting for a nice Sookie-Bill-Eric triad).