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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Blood Brothers and The Hollow—the conclusion to the electrifying trilogy of three men and three women who join forces—and hearts—to battle the ultimate evil.

This book was great! I have passed it on to my reading friends and they are all loving it too. It would make a great movie!

This was a smart and well thought out plot. I wasn't able to put the book down. The pages just flew right by.

Living Dead in Dallas, the second book in the Southern Vampire series, picks up shortly after the events in Dead Until Dark (Southern Vampire Mysteries, No. 1). Sookie, a cocktail waitress, gets pulled into a dangerous tangle after one of her coworkers turns up as a murder victim. Evidence points to a particular culprit -- but he may not be the guilty party.

Meanwhile, Bill, Sookie's undead lover, has obliged himself to a group of vampires residing in Dallas -- and they demand Sookie's services as a telepath to help track down a vampire gone missing. Sookie complies, because she's with Bill -- his accessory? property? -- and all her ornery words aside, she lets herself be treated that way because she loves Bill.

Oh yeah, and then there's that terrifying creature in the woods who has no particular objection to tearing poor Sookie to shreds...

These disparate threads are tied together rather limply, unfortunately. Sookie is thrown into perilous situations, claws her way back out of them, is alternately rescued and neglected and pleasured by Bill, and... and the results are far less entertaining than Dead Until Dark.

Living Dead in Dallas goes to a dark place, with hate crimes, racism and homophobia swirling around, much to Sookie's chagrin. Scenes of mayhem are interspersed with scenes of lust and a few angsty relationship issues. Still, by the time we reach the bloody and weirdly unsatisfying climax, there isn't much to show for all the sax and violins.

This would have been a better book if Sookie had been less of a pawn and more of an active agent in her own story. I'm hoping for something better with the next in the series, Club Dead (Southern Vampire Mysteries, Book 3).

I'm not really sure how to write this review. This was an ok book. Just ok. It was kinda a letdown for me after reading her first two books in the series. Sookie is again on the road in Mississippi this time. She was out of her element which could be good in some ways, but I think in this book it was bad. I just felt that a lot of the book didn't flow and wasn't reality based. Yes, I know that vampires aren't real so you have to suspend some thinking but come on...do you really think that little Sookie is going to go in and beat up on vampires. Anyway, I loved that Eric was a huge part of this book and I'm definitely starting to like him a lot better than Bill at this point. Sookie and Eric's interaction is building up to an explosion and I can't wait for that to happen. I did like the new werewolf that they introduced and hopefully he will continue in the series, maybe as Jason's boss. I really wanted to love this book, but I didn't. However, it wasn't bad. Just not great. I would recommend this book to anyone who has started the series and is looking for the next step in the relationships. It's not really a great mystery.

I really enjoy this series of books. They are a very interesting read. I like the twists and turns she makes. I like all the charcaters and the realm of what's really out there in the world.

I truly enjoyed this book...actually it is one of my top 5 favorites from Sherrilyn Kenyon! It was great to see all of her powerful male characters, hero's and villians, come to together after a common enemy, War. It was great to see how some of the god like powers were off-set by one another.

I thought Sherrilyn did a great job explaining Stryker's character and his relationships with the people he supposedly loved. His ex-wife was a perfect mate for him...she is a bit of a shrew!

I noticed other book reviews and people were disappointed because they hadn't read previous books. I have read every book in the Dark-Hunter and Dream-Hunter series and therefore I loved this book.

I thought this book was one of the best in the entire series (so far). It went in a direction I didn't see coming and really had me upset for Sookie.

You must read all the Southern Vampire Mysteries in the proper order. Each one will keep you highly entertained and enthralled.

What a disappointment. I buy these anthologies to get introduced to new authors -- that's how I've discovered new favorites like Angela Knight, Lora Leigh and Nalini Singh. But apart from the J.D. Robb story, which was excellent (a miracle since Nora's books in her Nora Roberts line have gotten so formulaic), I wouldn't read one of the other three author's work, even if I were given the books at no charge. Their stories were so poorly written and oddly constructed that in one case (Mary Blayney) I wondered if this was actually a 10th grader's English composition. The other two weren't much better. And the supposed tie-in to "Suite 606" that should have served as a connecting thread between the stories was virtually non-existent. If it were not for the Eve Dallas story, I would have rated this one a minus one star and returned it to the store for a refund.

Save your money.