Living Dead in Dallas

Sookie Stackhouse Southern Vampire Mystery #2

By: Charlaine Harris

Narrated by: Johanna Parker

Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins

Publisher's summary

Charlaine Harris' popular Southern Vampire mysteries have been described by Publishers Weekly as "humorous Southern-fried fantasy" with a little bit of romance.

In the follow up to Dead Until Dark, telepathic friend of the undead (and vampire bar cocktail waitress) Sookie Stackhouse puts her newfound powers to the test. After an unfortunate incident, Sookie finds herself beholden to a group of Louisiana vampires. So she agrees to travel to Dallas with her undead boyfriend Bill and track down a missing vamp, but only if the vampires promise to let local humans go unharmed. That seems easier said than done when an upstart religious cult threatens to destroy all things vampire - including Sookie, who is quickly scheduled for sacrifice.

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Critic reviews

"This is one terrific read." ( KLIATT)

Michelle Tayler

A series you just can't put down! The reader sounds so much like Sookie Stackhouse it's hard to believe that it's not Anna Pacquin!

Thoroughly enjoyable

My friend put me on the the first book, and I loved it, it was light, easy, and entertaining. So as soon as I was done with the first, I bought the audio book to enjoy during my 1 hour commute (each way) to work. I tell you what, this book made the drive very enjoyable. I highly recommend it if you're in the mood for an easy adult fantasy.

A great expansion on the characters

I very much enjoyed this book to get to know the characters better. The stakes are higher and so are the twists and turns. On to book 3

More supernaturals meet sookie

This book introduces us to a Greek mythical being which makes Sookie aware that it's NOT just vampires and shifters who are real, that maybe there's a lot more of the mythical world that actually exist. The book starts off killing a beloved character from the HBO TV series, and it's about at this book where the TV show and books start to veer away from each other with a will

Till now, the major difference has been in the books Sookie saves them, while in the show they save her.... starting here even the story lines no longer jive completely.

In addition to having to solve that murder Sookie discovers she and bill (as her body guard) have been loaned out to vampires in a different city who are worried that an church founded to be against vampires (and that's essentially all they do, Pray to Jesus and want to kill vamps) may have kidnapped a vampire, and they need Sookie to help find him. In the process she meets the first other telepath she's ever met, a guy who doesn't even really know he has the skills ... a character we'll see again later in other books as he with her help develops them.

Love this series!!

Love this series!!! I am thoroughly obsessed now lol. And that last line 😱 What's gonna happen to Sookie?!? I think I can guess, just don't know when lol

Feisty Sookie

Love Sookie’s energy & her cleverness. Love that the stories are from her point of view. True Blood was fun to watch, but these books share a lot more about her & motivations than the TV series.

enjoyed it but was not in love with it

This is the second book in the Sookie Stackhouse series I enjoyed it but was not in love with it. In this book Sookie and her vampire boyfriend Bill have to go to Dallas to help out a nest of vampires that need Sookie to use her “disability” to help find a missing nest brother. There are some series that I start and cannot wait to get to the next book and this is not really one of them for me. They are good books but not great in my opinion. They are the books I buy when I am stuck on something to listen too but do not have anything lined up. I find that when I am listening to them I don’t want to stop I want to keep listening but when the book is over I can listen to a few other books before going on to the next book in this series. I do like that Sookie can pretty much take care of herself and is not a weak figure, she knows who she is and what she wants and that is refreshing to see. I will probably get them all and am excited about the next two (books 3 and 4) because they have gotten really good reviews. I suggest this book to adult readers who want something a little funny with a down to earth main character. I enjoyed the narrator and think that she gives the perfect voice to Sookie.

I love this series!

Whether you've read this series in print or not this is an excellent series! I've read all the books and I still love to listen on Audio. This series is one of my favorites.

I loved this book and the first, but...

What made the experience of listening to Living Dead in Dallas the most enjoyable?

The characters and the story

What about Johanna Parker’s performance did you like?

Everything. She is in my top 5 BEST narrators.

Any additional comments?

I loved this book and the second, but this will be my last book. I know what happens in the end. I never watched TRUE BLOOD so I came into the series blind, but then I accidentally saw something about how it all ends and it killed it for me.

I could not stop listening to this book. If things in future books were not so "crazy", I would be buying all the books in the series.

Sookie is just Fun

Unlike the series, when you read Sookie Stackhouse you laugh out loud as this stereo-typical blond falls in and out of the lives of the "other" - vampires, werewolf, and more