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I’ve kept to my promise so far that I am to start no new books until I get a through some of the ones that I am currently reading. I can certainly handle my current reading list and it would pose no problem to me to replace one promptly with another, but I want to trim the list. So far, I’ve resisted all temptation to grab another book up when one is put down.

Due to the fact that I read so many at one time, I have a very slow finish rate. Instead of reading six chapters a day of one book, I read one chapter a day in six books. This factor is part of the reason I am going to work on reading fewer books– I’ll get done with them faster. The only book that I managed to finish this week is Dead as a Doornail, which is book six in the Southern Vampire Mysteries by Charlaine Harris. You can read my review here.

I did take about three hours out of my day today to head to Barnes & Noble. There, I sat back and read 18 chapters of Medicus by Ruth Downie.

I have about another 18 chapters and 100 pages to go. It makes me a bit sad that I am almost done with Medicus because it’s such a great and fun book. I’ll have to look around to find the second book in the series, Terra Incognita, because it still on pre-order at Amazon. But, I HAVE to read it. In fact, as soon as I get some money, I am going to buy Medicus because it’s a book I need to have on my shelf.

I am still reading the following:

Author(s): Charlaine Harris
Genre: Fiction – Paranormal
Tags: bill compton, blood, eric northman, horror, louisiana, murder, mystery, new orleans, romance, shape shifting, sookie stackhouse, telepathy, true blood, vampire, werewolves
Finished: January 24, 2009
Rating: 4 Stars

Review:

What’s the Southern mystery this time? There is a sniper on the loose who seems to be targeting only shifters (and Sookie, but she has very poor luck). Not only that, but who tried to burn down Sookie’s house with her in it? In this book five of the Southern Vampire Mysteries, Dead as a Doornail, Sookie is almost burned to death, attacked by wolves during a ceremony, shot in the shoulder, harassed by Eric who desperately wants to know what happened during his period of amnesia, and faced with Bill reentering the dating world. Her friendship is also on the fritz with Alcide. Oh, and if that’s not bad enough, she is a suspect in the death of shifter Debbie Pelt, which is probably the only one thing that happens that she actually deserves.

Problems don’t belong to only Sookie, though. Jason is a suspect in the shifter shootings (the Stackhouses must be cursed), though he is adapting nicely to his new life as a shifter and, in fact, quite likes it. Tara Thornton, Sookie’s best friend, is the unwilling girlfriend to a violent and dominating vampire named Mickey. Alcide has his worries over his father becoming pack leader.

I have to say that the plots are becoming predictable. That’s not to say that they’re not exciting because they are. It’s just that you can almost predict who will be the perpetrator by the first few chapters. I had this one pegged. Of course, it didn’t have me put down the book. I still find the Southern Vampire Mysteries very fun, very exciting, and very much worth my time to read. I still love them, yes. If you are looking for a shocking twist at the end, you’re not going to find it here because the formula is predictable. I am also a bit disappointed in the turn that Sookie’s friendship with Alcide took. I don’t think it’s too much that the two of them could remain friends and get over their little crush from book three. Instead, the two of them are getting to the point where they can scant stand each the company of each other. I mean, Sookie can have a friend she’s not making out with… right?

You can bet as soon as I can, I am going to pick up book six.

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