It no longer made any sense to me to call this section ‘In the Mail’ since I buy more books now than I am sent… of course due to the fact that I have been busy and accepting offers would have been greedy. With my first year of Grad school over, I now have an entire summer dedicated to reading. Still, I don’t want to over extend what I am capable of, so I am going to be diving into my severe backlog, if anything just to be able to clean some of it out and give my old books away.
Long story short: will be buying books or reading my backlog, not accepting offers or tours.
I WILL get through a large portion of this stack, cross my heart. As it is, I have a few books waiting that I need to write reviews for. Okay. MORE than a few. No matter, though. The whole point of this post is to say that I don’t want to call this feature ‘In the Mail’ since hardly any (if any at all) will come from the mail. Instead, my wallet.
Without further ado…
Dead and Gone (Sookie Stackhouse 9) by Charlaine Harris (Purchased from Barnes and Noble)
The Louisiana town of Bon Temps—along with the rest of the world—is about to be rocked with some big supernatural news: like the vampires before them, the Were people—humans with the ability to change into animals—are about to reveal themselves to humanity. Psychic barmaid Sookie Stackhouse is apprehensive about the revelation, given the way some people in the small town revile anyone with extraordinary powers, including Sookie herself. While the initial announcement seems to go over smoothly with most people, tragedy strikes when Sookie’s brother Jason’s estranged wife, a werepanther, is found murdered and nailed up on a cross. Jason is the prime suspect, but Sookie has even bigger problems to deal with when she learns that a vicious fairy prince is determined to kill her. Darker and more ominous than earlier entries in the series, Harris’ latest raises the stakes (pun intended) for lovable heroine Sookie and comes up a winner.
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith (Purchased from Barnes and Noble)
Following the success of his bestselling Pride and Prejudice and Zombies with another mélange of history and horror, Grahame-Smith inserts a grandiose and gratuitous struggle with vampires into Abraham Lincoln’s life. Lincoln learns at an early age that his mother was killed by a supernatural predator. This provokes his bloody but curiously undocumented lifelong vendetta against vampires and their slave-owning allies. The author’s decision to reduce slavery to a mere contrivance of the vampires is unfortunate bordering on repellent, but at least it does distract the reader from the central question of why the president never saw fit to inform the public of the supernatural menace. Grahame-Smith stitches hand-to-hand vampire combat into Lincoln’s documented life with competent prose that never quite manages to convince.
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