Club Dead

Club Dead is a vast improvement on the first two books of the Sookie Stackhouse series. Not that the first two weren't entertaining, but Club Dead has a much more tightly wound story, with a lot of tension and excitement. The character of Sookie also further establishes herself as an empowered heroine, even in the roughest and most vulnerable of circumstances. Charlaine Harris takes a very real, sometimes gritty, approach to the supernatural, which I personally much prefer to the more fairytale-like perspective that writers' like Stephenie Meyer take, and in this book that style really comes out in a strong way, making for a read that is rewarding as well as entertaining.