A Look at: True Blood Season 4

It's no secret that I love Charlaine Harris, the Sookie Stackhouse novels and the HBO television show, True Blood. On Thursday, they posted some new promo pictures that I just had to share with you! I would have posted them yesterday, but I had already posted twice and I have been posting quite a bit this week. Don't want to overwhelm you all, now do I?

All pictures are from the True Blood page on Facebook

Jason, Pam and Jessica! Three of my favorite characters on the show. If you haven't read the books, just wait for all of the developments with Jason this season! Also, I love the addition of Jessica to the show. She is not in the books and I think she's a welcome addition to the cast. Her relationship with Hoyt is precious. I can't leave this without saying something about Pam. She is one of the funniest people with the driest senses of humor!

Ah, Sookie and all of her suitors. Clearly Eric is the best suitor. Just saying. Look at Bill's stance. Haha. He is the only one not looking at Sookie.. I wonder if this is saying something... On further inspection, perhaps Eric is looking at Alcide. Either way, Eric is still the best. ;-)

Awe, then we have Lafayette, Tara and Sam. I'm glad Lafayette is still on the show and he should have an interesting season with the development of Jesus as a witch. Tara. Oh, dear Tara. Sometimes she really annoys me, but girl has been through a lot. Her new hair looks fab as well. Then there is Sam. He went a little cuckoo at the end of last season. Did he shoot Tommy for real? We'll have to wait and see.

On another note, I really like how each poster has a color theme. 

I hope you enjoy this season! Will you be watching? Do you have a favorite season so far? Let me know your predictions in the comments!

Judge a Book by its Cover: Dead Until Dark

Today we are starting the Sookie Stackhouse series by Charlaine Harris with Dead Until Dark.

All pictures from Amazon

Ahhh the Sookie Stackhouse series. I love these books. I own both the first and second books here. I am generally partial to the covers that have the drawings on them. For some reason, I find it really refreshing that these covers exist on a series of adult paranormal romance novels. I also think the font choice is so fun. I also love the TV tie-in cover because it matches my True Blood Season 1 DVD. It's also so deliciously vampiric. The third one is kind of cool as well. I like the blue tones, but I don't necessarily think I would be drawn to this cover in a store.

Which one is your favorite? Who's excited for the the new Sookie book coming out soon and True Blood SEASON 4 (for the book lovers, you knowwww what that means!!)? Let me know in the comments!

In My Mailbox (2)

Yay, my second In My Mailbox! In My Mailbox is a weekly meme hosted by The Story Siren to showcase what book bloggers have bought/received/won/etc. during that week. Fun stuff. This was a pretty light week for me. Actually, everything I'm going to show you today was won (woohoo!). Awayyyy we go...

I got Greek: Double Date by Marsha Warner from a contest at My 5 Monkeys Super excited about this one--since I was in a sorority, it is always fun to read about Greek Life!

I received Forbidden Highlander and Dangerous Highlander by Donna Grant from Good Choice Reading. I don't usually read these kinds of books, but I will definitely give it a shot. Looks a little saucy! ;)

Woo! A four pack of Tru-Blood from HBO! I won this all the way back in May during the time where I also won two passes to the Ultimate Fan Experience (which was super fun and provided some of the prizes for my Vampires & More Contest last month) and it just arrived the other day. I also got some bottles from the Ultimate Fan Experience, so I have tasted it already. It tastes a bit like if you took orange pop and put some Smarties candies in it. It is actually quite tasty. I think it is a bit thinner than pop and is 99 calories for the whole bottle. The bottles look fabulous on my bookshelf next to my Sookie Stackhouse books!

Well, that's it for me... what's in your mailbox this week?

Grave Secret by Charlaine Harris Review

Title: Grave Secret (Harper Connelly Mysteries Book #4)

Author: Charlaine Harris, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author of the Sookie Stackhouse Novels

Genre: Mystery

Page Count: 306

Book Type: Library Hardcover 
Publisher: Berkley Hardcover

ISBN: 978-0-425-23015-2

From Amazon: Lightning-struck sleuth Harper Connelly and her stepbrother Tolliver take a break from looking for the dead to visit the two little girls they both think of as sisters. But, as always happens when they travel to Texas, memories of their horrible childhood resurface.

To make matters worse, Tolliver learns from his older brother that their father is out of jail and trying to reestablish contact with other family members. Tolliver wants no part of the man- but he may not have a choice in the matter.

Soon, family secrets ensnare them both, as Harper finally discovers what happened to her missing sister, Cameron, so many years before.

And what she finds out will change her world forever.

Review: As promised, I finished Grave Secret by Charlaine Harris this evening.  This was, by far, my favorite in the Harper Connelly series, which is a shame because I own the first three, but only picked this one up as a library book. Sometimes I have a hard time with the characters in this series. I feel that Charlaine Harris doesn't always allow you to get to know the minor characters as well and then when something happens to them, you don't feel quite as bad. Throughout the series, I was always interested in the disappearance of Harper's sister, Cameron. I was excited when right there in the description it says that we will find out what actually happened--which makes me think this is that last in the series? I'm not sure if Charlaine Harris is planning on writing any more. The description does not lie, and we do, in fact, find out what happened to Cameron. If you read my last post, you will know that I was waiting for a bird to carry a skull somewhere due to the cover, but that never happened, which left me a bit disappointed.


Over all, this book is a quick read and I would suggest picking up the series from the library if you like mysteries. I wouldn't tell you to bump it up to the top of your list, though. I regret physically buying the first three, but I did only get them in paperback, so it isn't quite so bad. I would much rather read the Sookie Stackhouse novels. Those are books that I could read over and over again, where I don't think I will be revisiting Harper anytime soon.


My library has started to add little comment cards in the backs of the books, which I think is amazing. Obviously I love sharing my thoughts on books and love reading other people's thoughts (have you seen the blogs I subscribe to?). There was only one comment before mine on this book and it said, "Very Good!!!". I wrote, "My favorite of the series! Still prefer the Sookie Stackhouse books."


Have you read this series? What are your thoughts? Also, do you prefer the Sookie Stackhouse novels over these or vice versa? Does your library put comment cards in their books? Let me know!