fiainros reviewed Dead and Gone by Charlaine Harris
Review of 'Dead and Gone' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
I had a several month hiatus from reading Sookie Stackhouse books between From Dead to Worse and this one, Dead and Gone. This book picks up right at the Were reveal. And then life gets crazy for several in Sookie's life. I enjoyed this book. The various plots tied together, or didn't but did not seem frivolous as can be the case in these novels. One jarring thing I noticed is that Ms. Harris is not good at writing torture scenes. Torture scenes have occurred "off-screen" so-to-speak in previous novels. However, there is a scene that is supposed to be on-screen. Maybe she thought that readers imaginations could do better than her own writing, but I think she was a little too vague. She needs to read some Jacqueline Carey, Anne Bishop, or Laurell K. Hamilton to learn how to write a good torture scene that leaves enough to the …
I had a several month hiatus from reading Sookie Stackhouse books between From Dead to Worse and this one, Dead and Gone. This book picks up right at the Were reveal. And then life gets crazy for several in Sookie's life. I enjoyed this book. The various plots tied together, or didn't but did not seem frivolous as can be the case in these novels. One jarring thing I noticed is that Ms. Harris is not good at writing torture scenes. Torture scenes have occurred "off-screen" so-to-speak in previous novels. However, there is a scene that is supposed to be on-screen. Maybe she thought that readers imaginations could do better than her own writing, but I think she was a little too vague. She needs to read some Jacqueline Carey, Anne Bishop, or Laurell K. Hamilton to learn how to write a good torture scene that leaves enough to the reader's imagination to make it really bad yet reveals enough to get the reader going on the right path. This little point right here is why I think of Sookie books as fun and light and not as dark books, despite the blood and vampirism.
