Author: TJ Provost

Definitely Dead by Charlaine Harris

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

First of all, does anyone else ever get frustrated when they try to figure out what is the next book in the Sooke Stackhouse series? Why can’t they just put Book 1, Book 2 in their name in the ebook store? What a pain!

Anyway, I mention it because there were several times in Book 6 when I thought I might have jumped out of order for a moment and picked up the next book in the series. She flashed back to stuff that didn’t happen in the previous book, she was just providing back story.

So, that aside, this was indeed Book 6, and I didn’t skip anything out of order.

Things I loved about this book in bullet format:
– You find out a lot more about Quinn.
– The kinda sex scene in Hadley’s apartment with Sookie and Quinn. It was very hot.
– You find out Bill’s dark secret about Sookie.
– You find out about Sookie’s fairy godmother and her own fairy heritage.
– Sookie is so sweet and yet tough as nails.

Things I didn’t love about this book in one line format:
– Don’t make it so hard for me to buy the correct next book!!!

Episode  1 – Omega

Summary:

First of all – OMG – season 2 is finally here!!!  My oldest son and his “twin” and I are ready to watch teen wolf and my wife is complaining that the room just very gay.  Oh well, we don’t care.

The season opens with Jackson coming out of the water, clearly having been bit.  And Scott and Allison are getting it on, even though her dad has clearly forbid each other from ever seeing each other again.  It gets very hot and then Allison’s mom interupts them.

Allison has apparently convinced her dad that Scott is a good werewolf, and Mr. Argent has apparently agreed to let him live as long as he stays away for his daughter.

Strange things are going on in town, and Stiles and Scott aren’t sure if it’s Lydia or Jackson, or maybe both of them going off the wall as they start to change.

And the best part is that we get another dose tomorrow night.

Things I loved about this episode…

• Brief hotness between Scott and Allison.
• Creepy shower scene with Lydia. What the hell is coming up the drains? Hmm, bad memories and something worse…
• Stiles fighting a snack machine. Stiles rocks.
• The gravedigger getting ambushed, and then trapped in the hole. What is Derek up to? Is the “big bad guy” going to be a vampire this season?
• Jackson. He is such a douche, but at the same time he play sit so well. I wonder if he really is an ass*ole in real life.
• Something freaky deaky is going on with Derek. I think he is going to be a “special” werewolf.
• Scott is so sweet, leaving stuff in Allison’s locker and then comforting her when she’s having a panic attack.
• I have to go back and refresh my memory, I can’t remember what Stiles dad did to the teacher who is such a prick during dentention.
• The Godfather of werewolf hunters has arrived. Grandpa Argent has come to kick some ass. I wonder if Grandpa Gerard is going to keep the truce when it comes to Scott.
• A few brief seconds of Lydia’s arm bras. We didn’t get to see much more than we would if she were in a bathing suite, but it was still nice.
• The homeless dude werewolf and the sword. Grandpa Argent is a sick bastard. And he doesn’t know the definition of Omega either.
• Derek looking like he’s leaking everywhere in his bed.

Things that I didn’t like about this episode…

• Scott sniffing the way out the window. They should have had him on the hood of the jeep.
• Apparently werewolves about to turn leak ink out their noses, and then there is no evidence when they get pulled out of the stall.

Best Quote of Episode 1:

Scott – “Stiles, next time you see a trip wire – don’t trip it.”

So on Memorial Day Romney pulled out the republican boogeyman, claiming that Obama has cut military spending to fund social programs.

Romney –  “One is to follow the pathway of Europe. To shrink our military smaller and smaller to pay for our social needs.”

This is just pure bullshit. We have increased our spending every year under Obama.  When is enough enough? When do we stop letting the bastards lie to steal more and more from us?

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. You get what you deserve. If you are willing to vote for someone who wants to cut your school’s funding and deny care for your parents and grandparents while providng huge tax breaks to the rich, all I can say is your a stupid f*ck who gets what they deserve.

I have a saying.  I’ve actually screamed it at people who come to my door spouting garbage who won’t put up to prove their point.

“Have the strength of your convictions.”

If you want to tell me that Obama has increased the debt with social spending he is killing our economy, I’d ask you to agree to use the data from the CBO and let’s talk (see spending graph below if you want to see what I’m talking about).

But this is really about the catholics screaming about the war on religon because they are being asked to provide birth control for their female members. I have one simple thing to say to them.

YOU DON’T HAVE THE STRENGTH OF YOUR CONVICTIONS

So you are being asked to supply birth control to comply with federal standards.  So what, if your members are so against it, they don’t have to use the service.  I guess the catholics just don’t have any strength of will, no faith, no belief in their own religon.

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They will tell you the attacker was on LSD…

They will tell you the strange rashes in Florida are unrelated…

They will tell you that you are safe as long as you lock your doors and don’t make too much noise…

And then you will get eaten.

Dead as a Doornail by Charlaine Harris

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

What is the appeal of Sookie?

I think it has a lot to do with how “common” she seems. While she is a telepath, she is also a very straightforward and simple person. It makes her both approachable adn likable. She might hang with shifters and vamps, but she never revels in it.

Compared with other female heroines of the vampire genre, I think Sookie is the most balanced. The Night Huntress (Cat) is a solid character, but the action is a bit thin and it is usually easy to see what is coming in the future. I enjoyed the Night Huntress series, but they are more about vampire/soft erotic reading than anything else. And of course, there is Bella, who is very unidimentional.

So, after a quick review of the genre, how did book five stand up. It was a good solid entry in the Sookie Stackhouse series, but the shooter was a bit out of left field. The cool parts were teh insite into who Claudine is, and the depth you were able to see into the were society.

A good summer read. I hope you enjoy.

Thank you to all the men and women of the armed services.

Your service and sacrifices are not forgotten.

Dead to the World by Charlaine Harris

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I have to say this is my favorite of the series so far.

Something about the way Eric is helpless on the road and the tentative way he and Sookie interact just felt so real. Bill is out of the picture, working on his database for the Queen, so he is basically out of the picture until the very end, just before the final battle. So Sookie and Eric have plenty of time to grow together.

It was both very intimate and hot at the same time, without ever being salacious.

The secondary story revolves around Jason, who has gone missing. I won’t spoil the how, but both Sookie and Jason are slowly getting pulled deeper into the supe world.

One Grave at a Time by Jeaniene Frost

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

If you’ve made it to the sixth book you clearly like the series.

Book six has just the right amount of sex, violence, and a twist in terms of who the bad guy is that it keeps things interesting.

Cat and Bones have stayed true to who they are, but I do feel like the two might be coming to the end of their natural life as a series – which I think you can also see by the way that Jeaniene Frost is spinning off other stories about Spade and Denise. It’s go to be hard to find someone who can still hurt the two uber vampires, and keep the suspense up.

It’s one of the reasons that I think Sookie has such long legs in terms of the number of books. She has powers, but she is at the heart of the matter very fragile, so it is easy to keep the suspense going.

I guess like all good things, the story of Cat and Bones has to end at some point.

Hopefully JF will surprise us though and keep it going for just a bit longer.