Living Dead in Dallas

Lafayatte, the gay black cook, is found dead inside a police car. The book also establishes that vampires were given legal rights basically to make sure they paid taxes. Sookie later gets mad at Bill and takes a walk in the woods and encounters a maenad. She attacks Sookie and really hurts her. She says it's a message for Eric, whose revealed to have been a Viking.

Sookie has been poisoned. The vampires save her, then Eric tells her he's loaning her out to the vampires in Dallas to help them out somehow. A vampire has disappeared, and the leader of the Dallas vampires wants her help in finding him. This leads Sookie to an wild attempt to infiltrate an extremist anti-vampire group, the Fellowship of the Sun, a vampire that wants to die, and the discovery that Dallas has its own group of people with supernatural, non-vampire, abilities, who want to remain secret.

Things get worse when the Fellowship openly attacks a vampire's house (where there's a bunch of vampires, humans, and Sookie) and kills many of the humans.

She no sooner gets back to her home than she has to plan for attending a sex-club, hoping that someone there will know how and why Lafayette was murdered.

This involves being personally disgusted with what the people were doing at hte party, running once again into the maenad, encountering Sam in his collie form, encountering a drunk Andy with a gun, and getting the answers to her question, followed by a bunch of people dying.

All in all, an excellent second book. I especially like the way the author is bringing in more and more mythological creatures, but adding humans with psi-abilities, and going into how they have their own group, the vampires have their own group, and the two groups have their own agendas.

Fascinating, always interesting, great second book.



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