Dead in Dixie (Southern Vampire Mystery, Bks. 1-3) (Hardcover)

by Charlaine Harris (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 612 pages
• Publisher: Science Fiction Book Club; SFBC Omnibus edition (2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0739434713
• ISBN-13: 978-0739434710
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.6 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #68,297 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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56 of 61 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Rural Southern Vampires !, April 19, 2004

By	Kay "sturmbooks" (COLUMBUS, OH USA) - See all my reviews

This Science Fiction Book Club Edition contains the first 3 volumes of Charlaine Harris' Southern Vampire series: Dead Until Dark, Living Dead in Dallas and Club Dead.

More humor than most vampire series, with a good mystery as you would expect from Charlaine Harris. If you like Laurell K Hamilton, this has a more light-hearted touch, but many similar supernatural elements. Highly recommended!

18 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The dead are among us, and don't we love it, October 2, 2005

By	Victor Eijkhout (Knoxville, TN USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This volume contains three novels about the waitress Sookie Stackhouse and her vampire boyfriend Bill Compton. Vampires have recently been allowed to come out in the open, living on synthesized blood; the party line is that vampirism is a severe allergy to garlic and sunlight, but as some people find out, they are really supernatural and there are many more supernatural beings around. Sookie herself is telepathic, which she mostly considers a nuisance: her attraction to Bill is partly that she can not read his thoughts, and therefore can have a "normal" relationship with him.

These stories are quite funny to read, although they contain a good amount of gore, supernatural or otherwise, and are in general well written. Sookie is a likeable character, and nowhere near as dumb as she looks, even if she is blond and has big breasts.

I guess it's natural for vampire stories to take place in Louisiana, but instead of in glamorous New Orleans, these stories play in a small town, Bon Temps, where everyone knows everyone. The locale is certainly vividly pictured.

On the whole I found this a tremendously entertaining read.

3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Shapeshifters in Simsboro, June 9, 2008

By	Julia Jackson "Jooliview" (Houston, TX USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Ms. Harris isn't Anne Rice (thankfully to my tastes) and unfortunately isn't too terribly familiar with the culture of North Louisiana. I heard she was writing about vampires in a part of the world where I spent 20 years so I was intrigued. She like many others tries to inject South Louisiana into an area that just isn't like that at all. It caused problems in my ability to suspend disbelief so I was unable to really get into her stories.