Customer Review(s)
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Summary: Terrific listening for long car journeys
Comment: I'd not been impressed with the first book in this series; thought it was too derivative of the very early Anita Blake setup back when those books were good (which was the first two volumes). But I needed a book on CD for a longish road trip I was taking alone, and this seemed a passable possibility.
The book itself is more a wrap-up of a dozen or so plotlines that I suppose had been hanging in the series. One by one things come to a climax until all are dealt with (except for those cult guys who came to the bar) and just about everyone now owes Sookie favors/protection big time. If you were reading the book I'd imagine that it might not be too riveting because of the lack of a coherent plot, but for a car ride, it kept me interested the entire way like a strung-out soap opera. Good enough.
But I must stand up and cheer for the narrator, Johanna Parker! Her male voices might have been sometimes not so great -- and I have to wonder about the Transylvanian accent given the king with the Latino name -- but the rest was brilliantly done. The Louisiana accents were a joy to listen to, the delivery of some of the dialogue and narration laugh-out-loud funny. I truly felt like someone from the depths of Louisiana was telling the story and surrounded by suitable countryfolk. Brava!
