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9 Cheap Kindle Fantasy Books Under $4.00
Posted by: | CommentsI’m always in the market for a good deal so when I saw that there was a special running at Amazon where several Kindle fantasy books had been reduced so they cost less than 4 dollars I immediately jumped on the deal. Since I’m not sure everyone knows about this I decided to share this find with all of you.
I was actually surprised at some of the great books in the list. I’ve read some but I found quite a few that I hadn’t read. I downloaded all of the ones I hadn’t read because you can’t beat these prices! I mean really, I’m willing to take a chance because the prices are so cheap. Some of these books are regularly priced at $9.99, and they’re marked down to $2.99!
So, here are 9 Kindle Fantasy Books that are on sale for less than four dollars:
Halfway to the Grave by Jeaniene FrostFor a limited time, discover Jeaniene Frost’s Night Huntress series with Halfway to the Grave. Plus, as a bonus, you will receive exclusive material, including deleted scenes and excerpts! Folks, I’ve read this book and it’s AWESOME! Get it while it’s on sale!
Half-vampire Cat Crawfield is going after the undead with a vengeance, hoping that one of these deadbeats is her father — the one responsible for ruining her mother’s life. But she’s captured by Bones, a vampire bounty hunter who specializes in tracking down rogue vamps, and is forced into an unwilling partnership.
Bones will help her find her father but realizes that Cat’s hunting skills are lacking. He trains her until her battle reflexes are as sharp as his fangs.
But before she can enjoy her newfound status as a kick-ass vampire hunter, Cat and Bones are pursued by a group of killers. Now Cat will have to choose a side – and decide if she can trust Bones with not just her life, but her heart as well.
Tantalize by Cynthia Leitich SmithQuincie Morris has never felt more alone. Her parents are dead, and her hybrid-werewolf first love is threatening to embark on a rite of passage that will separate them forever.
Then, as she and her uncle are about to unveil their hot vampire-themed restaurant, a brutal murder leaves them scrambling for a chef. Can Quincie make their new hire into a believable undead before opening night with fake fangs, a cheap cape, and red contact lenses? Or is there more to this earnest face than meets the eye?
As human and preternatural forces clash, a deadly love triangle forms, and the line between predator and prey begins to blur. Who’s playing whom? And how long can Quincie play along before she loses everything?
Sophia – Vampires in America by DB ReynoldsSophia, beautiful and deadly, has spent the last hundred years dancing her way through the balmy nights and hot-blooded men of South America. But when her Sire sends an urgent summons, Sophia rushes home to Vancouver only to find he has disappeared, leaving nothing behind but three dead vampires and a letter with Sophia’s name on it.
Colin Murphy, a former Navy SEAL, is seeking a quiet place to heal the scars earned in war. But when someone starts killing local vampires and torturing their mates, Colin sets out to find the killers and stop them, even if that means hunting with vampires.
Following her Sire’s trail of death to a small town in northern Washington, Sophia soon joins forces with Colin. But they must race to uncover the killers before the next dead vampire becomes Sophia herself.
Wizards First Rule by Terry GoodkindIn Wizard’s First Rule, Goodkind introduced the world to an ordinary forest guide, Richard Cypher, and the mysterious, powerful woman he comes to love, Kahlan Amnell.
Learning his true identity, Richard accepts his destiny as the only man who can stop the bloodthirsty killer Darken Rahl. Kahlan calls upon Richard to reach beyond his sword and invoke something more noble within himself as the final confrontation with Darken Rahl looms.
The importance of Wizard’s First Rule goes beyond these achievements. Goodkind took on the toughest of all literary challenges: to tell an electrifying story of action, violence, and adventure that would also make people think, and that would influence the choices and actions of its readers.
Against All Odds by Thomas DePrimaWar has kept Jenetta Carver far from home on Earth for twelve years. With the advent of peace, she takes a well-deserved vacation and returns home for a visit. She picks up her two sisters on the way home and the three women surprise their mom with the unannounced visit.
Just a week after arriving home, Jenetta receives word that Region Two has been invaded by the Tsgardi. Determined not to let the news interfere with her mother’s joy of having her three daughters with her, she doesn’t mention the invasion but she’s soon summoned to Space Command Supreme HQ to discuss the situation.
Although Jenetta hopes to quickly squash this situation, she doesn’t know that the Tsgardi invasion is not an isolated event. Three other interstellar powers have joined the Tsgardi, hoping to further the invasion before Space Command can move security forces into place. Jenetta’s tiny fleet will face an armada a thousand warships strong. It’s not just another day at the office . . . .
Ring of Fire by Pierdomenico BaccalarioEvery hundred years, four kids from four cities must save the world.
A mix-up with their reservations forces Harvey from New York, Mistral from Paris, and Sheng from Shanghai to share a room with the hotel owner’s daughter, Elettra. The four kids discover an amazing coincidence — they all have birthdays on February 29, Leap Day. That night, a strange man gives them a briefcase and asks them to take care of it until he returns. Soon afterward, the man is murdered.
The kids open the briefcase. In it they find a series of clues that take them all over Rome, through dusty libraries and dark catacombs, in search of the elusive Ring of Fire, an ancient and extremely powerful object.
In the first book of the Century quartet, author P. D. Baccalario begins a mystery that will take four cities and four extraordinary kids to solve.
ExHeroes by Peter ClinesThey were heroes. Vigilantes. Crusaders for justice, using their superhuman abilites to make Los Angeles a better place.
Then the plague of living death spread around the globe. Despite the best efforts of the superheroes, the police, and the military, the hungry corpses rose up and overwhelmed the country. The population was decimated, heroes fell, and the City of Angels was left a desolate zombie wasteland like so many others.
Now, a year later, the ex-heroes must overcome their differences to protect the thousands of survivors sheltered in their film studio-turned-fortress, the Mount. The heroes lead teams out to scavenge supplies, keep the peace within the walls of their home, and try to be the symbols the survivors so desperately need.
For while the ex-humans walk the streets night and day, they are not the only threat left in the world, and the people of the Mount are not the only survivors left in Los Angeles. Across the city, another group has grown and gained power.
And they are not heroes.
A Wish After Midnight by Zetta ElliottGenna is a fifteen-year-old girl who wants out of her tough Brooklyn neighborhood. But she gets more than she bargained for when a wish gone awry transports her back in time.
Facing the perilous realities of Civil War–era Brooklyn, Genna must use all her wits to survive. In the tradition of Octavia Butler’s Kindred and Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time, A Wish After Midnight is the affecting and inspiring tale of a fearless young woman’s fight to hold on to her individuality and her humanity in two different worlds.
Skellig by David AlmondThis award winning novel celebrates its 10th anniversary!
Ten-year-old Michael was looking forward to moving into a new house. But now his baby sister is ill, his parents are frantic, and Doctor Death has come to call. Michael feels helpless.
Then he steps into the crumbling garage. . . . What is this thing beneath the spiders’ webs and dead flies? A human being, or a strange kind of beast never before seen? The only person Michael can confide in is his new friend, Mina. Together, they carry the creature out into the light, and Michael’s world changes forever. . . .
New Fantasy TV Show: Death Valley
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“A year ago, vampires, werewolves and zombies mysteriously descended upon the streets of California’s San Fernando Valley. Authorities are still confused by their wardrobe choices.”
From what I’ve seen thus far, this show is a cross between RENO 911! and The Walking Dead, two TV shows that I really like. Death Valley, which airs on MTV Monday nights at 10:30pm, focuses on a group of cops in California’s Undead Task Force (UTF) as they take on real life vampires, werewolves and zombies. A camera crew follows them as they attempt to apprehend the supernatural baddies.
Here’s a video clip for the show:
I plan to start watching it and possibly reviewing it for the site. It looks like great tongue-in-cheek fun!
It Happened: Sookie and Eric Have Sex!
Posted by: | CommentsYes, in the closing scene in tonight’s episode of True Blood Episode 6: I Wish I Was The Moon, Sookie and Eric have sex in the woods under the full moon. Eric was about to be sentenced to die at the hands of Bill, the Vampire King of Louisina, but after Eric gave such a heartfelt speech about loving Sookie and wanting Sookie to be happy, Bill let him go.
After he’s freed he finds Sookie, who was in the woods chasing after her brother Jason, who thought he was doomed to turn into a werepanther. He approaches her, kisses her and soon after, the hot sex scene begins.
Meanwhile Bill, standing outside as well, has a quiet, reflective moment. I’m sure he’s thinking about some of the things Eric said, namely, that he was okay with dying since he’d die knowing what it felt like being loved. I’m sure he’s also thinking that by letting him free, Eric and Sookie will definitely get together. Poor Bill, he has to make lots of tough decisions as the King. But it’s clear he’s still the wonder southern gentlemen he’s always been.
Anyway, it’s been much anticipated and I’m glad I got to see Eric and Sookie’s sex scene. It wasn’t very explicit (by True Blood standards that is) but there was plenty shots of naked Eric from the back.
Aah, I wonder what I’ll be dreaming about tonight . . . .
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I’m Alive and On Fire Watching True Blood Ep4
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Here’s what happened tonight in True Blood Episode 4: I’m Alive and On Fire
• After Eric sucked the life blood from Claudine Sookie’s fairy godmother (as Sookie said “you drank the whole fairy”) he decides he wants more blood. From Sookie. She refuses but then Eric, apparently high on blood, runs off into the night.
• Bill questions Pam about Eric’s whereabouts. She accuses him of deliberately sending Eric to the witches. She also tells Bill he’s gotten power hungry since he became the King of Louisiana.
• Jason is still being used as a Boy Toy for the women of Hotshot. They’re lined up for him. I guess this is poetic justice since Jason’s probably slept with more women than most in the small town of Bon Temps. However it’s pretty sad when one of the young girls is also sent in to have sex with him; she’s brainwashed into thinking she has to do this for her people. Jason talks her out of doing anything and convinces her to untie him, which she does.
• Marnie has a vision of the witch she channeled when she erased Eric’s memory. She witnesses the witch in question being burned at the stake. Looks like she was alive during the Spanish inquisition. She keeps repeating something like “fortesu eru nortu”.
• Alcide agrees to help Sookie find Eric; he strips down naked (yum), turns into a beautiful white wolf and runs into the woods with Sookie on his heels. They later find Eric swimming in a lake (naked I might add). When Alcide changes back to a human (naked I might add) he and Eric have a naked, hunky standoff. Sookie referees just in time because the sun starts affecting Eric.
• Fenton and Crystal discover that Jason is gone. Fenton changes into a werepanther and runs off looking for him with the intent to kill him. Later, Jason is able to climb a tree and jump on top of Fenton, killing him with a wooden stake (isn’t that interesting). Soon after, Crystal arrives and when Jason attempts to rebuke her she tells him that he’s one of them now and will become the Ghost Daddy of Hotshot.
Later that night Hoyt and Jessica find Jason lying in the middle of the road at night. Jessica gives him some blood to revive him.
• Lafayette, Tara and Jesus try to talk Marnie into reversing the spell she put on Eric. She initially tells them she can’t do that because the goddess, not her, cast the spell. When they explain that “can’t” is not an option when it comes to dealing with vampires, she attempts to reach the goddess spirit. To no avail. Uh, Marnie is a bit of an airhead if you ask me.
Fortunately, one of Marnie’s attempts to contact her spirit guides finally pays off. A book falls open to a specific page that tell her to “draw your circle in the light of the moon of Artemus.”
• Sam’s brother Tommy goes back to see his mother since she left Joe Lee, her husband. But she acts strange when Tommy asks how she got away from him. She later tells him that Joe Lee had put her back in the ring. Tommy gets mad and then out of the dark, Joe Lee wraps a chain around his neck, choking him and telling him that his days of freedom are over. It looks like Joe Lee is going to force Tommy to start dog fighting again.
• Sam goes to visit Luna (horse lady) and discovers she has a daughter named Emma. Luna acted strange when he first arrives, as if she didn’t want to ask him in. But after he saw her daughter she seemed to warm up a bit. Have I told you that I don’t trust Luna? I think there’s something weird about her.
When Sam asks her why she didn’t tell him about her daughter she tells him she’s careful about revealing her daughter to anyone because his father is a werewolf. A very jealous werewolf who might be a bit violent. I think Sam should walk away from this potentially disastrous relationship.
• Sookie is finally able to get Eric tucked in to his “hidey hole” underneath her armoire. Alcide tells her she’s not safe letting Eric stay there but Sookie seems to think she’ll be okay. I tell you – I love Alcide’s character. And that man is some kinda handsome!
• Bill goes to visit Portia Bellefleur and meets her grandmother, Caroline. While tracing the Bellefleur family tree Bill and Caroline realize they’re related. As such he tells Portia they can’t see one another anymore (they had sex during the last episode). Why? Because she’s his great-great-great-great grandaughter!
• Back home, when Alcide tells Debbie Pelt about how he assisted Sookie, she starts acting weird. It’s obvious she’s still jealous of Sookie.
• OH MY GOODNESS! In tonight’s episode Terry Belefleur put demon baby Mikey down for a minute only to come back into the room to find the following words written on the wall:
“BABY NOT YOURS”
As you can imagine, Arlene freaks out about this.
• Bill goes to visit Sookie looking for Eric and Sookie lies to him, telling him she’s not seen him. He asks her permission to search her home but she refuses. Bill almost goes ahead with the search but after she reminds him that she’s never lied to him, he feels guilty about doubting her and leaves.
• Pam joins Marnie, Lafayette, Jesus and Tara during a night time ritual in which Marnie attempts to reverse the spell she put on Eric. After a few minutes an angry and impatient Pam approaches Marnie who puts her hand in front of Pam’s face and begins channeling the witch goddess. In a strange language Marnie says “Corrupt and un-sanctified corpse that walks, behold and see yourself.” Almost immediately Pam’s skin begins to age really, really fast. She reaches up to touch her face and some of her skin peels away. She runs away into the night.
Once again, the vamps have learned not to mess with Marnie. She may seem a bit ditzy but when she channels that goddess she’s hell on wheels.
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Guest Blogger: Dez Del Rio, Author of The Lipstick Killerz
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Dez Del Rio, author of the book The Lipstick Killerz, dropped by our site to discuss why he believes we’re still so fascinated with vampires and how the vamp phenomenon can be linked to gender equality. I think you’ll enjoy hearing what he has to say:
TRUE POWER
I was thinking recently about the fascination we Americans (especially our youth) have developed for vampires and vampirism. I know many have addressed this issue, but I personally have not been satisfied with the conventional wisdom regarding this matter, i.e., vampires are sensuous, they’re alluring, they’re stylish, they’re hip, powerful, carefree and dangerous, but most of all, vampires are cool as hell. Yes, they are all that and we love them for it, but superficiality does not stand the test of time. Since vampires do and in my opinion, always will, there has to be more to it than that, a deeper underlying social significance as yet unidentified.
A life long fan of horror movies, as a young boy I remember loving the Dracula, Werewolf and Frankenstein movies. Vampires were something boys loved and girls for the most part avoided like the plague. But this is definitely no longer the case; girls now love vampires as much as boys do, if not more. This got me thinking about the reasons for this shift in attitude, when I realized that it corresponded directly to the rise in feminine power over the last forty years in movies, music, politics and spirituality.
Believe it or not, this revitalization of feminine energy was predicted to reoccur at this time in our history long ago by ancient civilizations from around the world. In a time long before the rise of the monotheistic religions Judaism, Christianity and Islam, women, as I’m sure many of you know, were as powerful as men in many aspects of society. They were said to control the forces of nature and beyond, with great generals and armies relying on the power of their mystical intuition for the strength to fight and win epic battles.
That’s when it hit me; vampirism has become the great equalizer. Although traditionally the male vampire has been the dominant powerful character lusting for the blood of weak helpless women, in recent times with more writers of vampire fiction being women, this has given way to a new breed of powerful female vampires. And this is as it should be; since both male and female vampires possess the same powers of immortality, they should possess equal supernatural powers.
These mythical creatures (werewolves and zombies included) balance the power between the genders. Though an older vampire (because of his experience) may be more resourceful or cunning, male vampires are no more powerful than female vampires, and I believe this to be at the heart of the vampire phenomenon in pop culture today.
In my book The Lipstick Killerz Sophia Sage, the central character (named in honor of Sophia the Goddess of Wisdom) and her counterpart Mary Ellen are both smart, strong women. I delve more deeply into the occult powers generated by the balance of male and female energy and our need to return to this ancient form of wisdom and spirituality, and the imbalance not doing so has created within humanity.
But make no mistake, this balance of power runs both ways. In vampires, both men and women (whether consciously or subconsciously) find the powers they from time immemorial have secretly or not so secretly desired. For women, it is the strength to conquer and overcome any man who does not respect her or her boundaries. For men, it is the power to hypnotize any beautiful woman he chooses, rendering her helpless to his seductive charm as he takes from her what he wants.
And that power, the power of equality, granted to us by the Vampire I call: True Power.
Dez Del Rio, author of the book The Lipstick Killerz, got the inspiration for the book’s title by his band, which shares the same name. In addition to writing, Dez is a big music lover who got his first electric guitar when he was 13 and formed his first band by the age of 16. You can learn more about Dez by visiting Dez’s Dungeon at his website. Be sure to check out his slide show at the bottom of the page – it’s got some great photos!
True Blood Recap: If You Love Me, Why Am I Dyin’? – Episode 3
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Tonight on True Blood Episode 3 “If You Love Me, Why Am I Dyin’?” we learn that Eric has TRULY lost his memory! Looks like vampires aren’t the baddest bullies on the block – some witches are powerful enough to stop them in their tracks.
Here’s what else happened tonight:
Sookie thinks Eric is simply being difficult when she sees him walking along the road by himself. So she drives away only to have him do his vamp-thang and suddenly appears beside her car. She then realizes something is wrong when he tells her “I know what I am – I just don’t know who I am.” She agrees to help him figure out what happened to him as long as he doesn’t touch or bite her.
Tara is upset that she’s once again been attacked by a vampire. If you’ll remember, last week she attempted to defend Marnie when she was attacked, only to have Eric focus his attention on her. Once she’s done complaining Lafayette attempts to put things into perspective for she and the witches in the coven (as only Lafayette can):
“Bitch, climb down off that cross for two seconds, you don’t think it freaked my shit out?” “It’s not just any fanger it’s Eric Northman, who’s fuckin’ ancient and stupid powerful and can kill all of us. And now he probably will.”
I love Lafayette!
Meanwhile, Jason, who’s been repeatedly bitten by Crystal and Felton realizes they plan to turn him and then use him to make more werepanthers since their numbers are dwindling.
Call me weird, but I’m lovin’ the new more ballsy Bill Compton. In previous seasons I always felt Eric thought he had the upper hand but now Eric realizes Bill isn’t someone to be toyed with. Tonight Bill has to deliver a sentence to a vampire that was caught on film feeding on a human (check out http://vamps-kill.com). According to Bill, that’s against vampire law and as such, he has to be punished. The sentence? THE TRUE DEATH. And Bill is pretty cavalier about issuing the sentence too. Perhaps he’s getting a bit power hungry but deep down I still like Bill. Why? Because I believe he still loves Sookie and that he’s only doing what has to be done to ensure their survival. And as the King of Louisiana he’s in a better position to do that.
After Bill sentences the careless vamp he’s visited by Jessica. She confesses that she fed on a human at Fangtasia which causes him to remind her that if she’s caught doing that on film even he won’t be able to protect her. He then plays the good Dad and tells her to “vamp up” and tell Hoyt what happened. Aw, see, this is what I mean about Bill. He’s really a nice guy.
Sookie then calls Pam to tell her that Eric has lost his memory. Pam does her vamp-thang and rushes over. Eric doesn’t recognize her and Pam realizes that the witches did something to her. She asks Sookie to hide Eric away because if the AVL finds him they’ll want to kill him. sookie agrees but tells Pam she wants to get paid for watching over Eric.
When Jessica goes home Hoyt immediately starts hassling her for being out so long by herself. He then accuses her of bringing back some doll that they threw away. Hmmn, I must have missed when that happened. Anyway, Jessica tells him what happened, he hits the roof, and she decides to glamor him into thinking he’s not angry. She looks sufficiently guilty for doing this which tells us she’s still cares for him.
Okay, we’re at the 30 minute mark (it’s 9:30pm EST) so I’m going to go ahead and publish this post. I’ll keep adding to it as the episode continues!
Sookie visits Alcide, asking him to help her with Eric and discovers Debbie Pelt is back in Alcide’s life. Debbie apologizes to Sookie for trying to kill her and tells her she’s a changed woman. I have to say, Debbie looks like a new woman.
Alcide agrees to help her hide Eric but Sookie decides not to take him up on his offer. Hmmn, Alcide doesn’t seem to happy to learn that Eric is staying at Sookie’s house.
Tommy, still living with Maxine Fortenberry, answers her door and finds a guy there who wants to purchase the natural gas rights to Maxine’s land. He offers $10k per acre to which Tommy has a brain fart or something and suddenly starts negotiating with the guy like Donald Trump.
At Merlotte’s Tara asks Sookie to try to persuade Eric not to seek revenge against Lafayette. Sookie lies and tells Tara that she hasn’t seen Eric because he’s missing. They’re interrupted by Sam who ends up behind the bar sharing a drink with Tara. He wants to make sure she’s accepted his two-natured status. She has. Sam tells her she can camp out at his place if she like; she declines and tells him she’s seeing someone. He tells her “so am I.” I assume he’s referring to Luna (who I don’t completely trust by the way).
They’re interrupted by Jesus who tells them Lafayette has disappeared from Merlotte’s. Jesus and Tara drive away looking for him.
Meanwhile:
-Bill is approached by Portia Bellefleur who propositions him for sex. Bill tells her that he could never love her.
-Jessica gives demon-child Mikey the dirty doll that she and Hoyt tried to throw away. I’m sorry but that doll looks evil.
-Tommy propositions Sam about taking advantage of Maxine and cashing in on her natural gas offer, without telling her about it.
-Portia and Bill have sex.
-Sookie goes back hom looking for Eric and finds that he’s left.
-Turns out Pam is responsible for Lafayette’s disappearance. She’s taken him back to the dungeon where he was tortured but Tara and Jesus come to the rescue. Tara holds a gun on her (with wooden bullets) while they reach an agreement to deliver lead witch Marnie to Pam in 24 hours. If they don’t Pam promises to “eat, fuck and kill” all three of them. One can only hope it would occur in that order.
-Marnie offers a sacrifice to the spirit that gave her the power to put the spell on Eric. She’s not quite sure why she was chosen by the spirit; she slashes her wrist and the spirit appears to her.
-Jason, boy toy, awakens to find Crystal getting busy with him against his will (he’s tied to a bed). We then see there’s an entire line of women waiting to have their turn with him.
-Sookie is visited by Claudine who is still trying to get her to return to fairyland. She tells her that she’s the one that helped her defend herself against the drainers the night she first met Bill. Just then, Eric attacks Claudine and COMPLETELY DRAINS HER DRY.
The episode ends with Sookie telling Eric “you just killed my fairy godmother”. Eric looks at her with a guilty look on his face and says “Sorry.”
It’s interesting watching Eric – he has this innocent, naive way about him that’s pretty endearing. To see the infamous “Bad Eric” here’s where you can Watch True Blood Free Online.
Which do you like best: “Nice Eric” or “Bad Eric”?
Bill Is The King Of Louisiana And You Smell Like Dinner, True Blood Episode 2
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Bill is the King of Louisiana and living large in tonight’s episode of True Blood. Yes, Sookie is in for quite a surprise when she learns that her old boyfriend has moved up in the world since her trip to fairyland.
Here are the Top 10 highlights from “You Smell Like Dinner”, tonight’s episode of True Blood:
#10: Jason is tied down to a bed and held prisoner by the crazy ass inbred folks in the small community of Hotshot. He almost talks one of the kids into untying him when Felton barges in with a shotgun.
Later, when Andy Bellefleur comes by accusing them of dealing “V”, Crystal has to hold a knife to his neck in order to keep him quiet. Felton, realizing that Andy is hooked on “V”, sends one of the Hotshot guys out to give him a vial of the stuff. This works and Andy tells them he’s taking the “evidence” away with him.
#9: Anti-vampire protesters have set up camp outside Fangtasia. Hoyt approaches one of them but then gets beat down by a few of them. He takes his punches like a man (I really like him) and gets in a few good hits himself.
But alas, he and Jessica are still having relationship problems. When Hoyt refuses to drink her blood to help him heal, Jessica leaves with the initial intent of getting him some Advil but then decides to go to Fangtasia, where she again encounters the anti-vampire protesters. But she also sees the cute guy from last week’s episode who she takes into the bathroom and sucks his blood.
#8: They Call Me Mr. Sam: A naked Sam (who has one of THE best butts in prime time) tries to get busy with one of his new shape-shifter friends the lovely Luna, but she’s a shy filly (heh, heh) and runs away from him.
But later, she shows up at Merlotte’s and makes it clear that she’s interested in him. Sam makes a date to see her later that night.
Okay, but the date entails sitting around a campfire with the other shifters. It’s there that Luna confesses that she once shifted into the form of her mother. She tells them about skin walkers, who the Navajo’s believe are able to shift into the form of any other animal, including the form of a human. But here’s the catch: you have to kill someone in order to do that. She then reveals that her mother died giving birth to her. Um, there’s something not quite right about Luna.
The campfire party is interrupted by Sam’s brother Tommy, who’s spying on them. Sam chases and tackles him and learns that Tommy wants him back as a brother. They agree to try to start trusting one another.
#7: Sookie goes to see Bill and learns that she’s “on the list” and is cleared to enter his home, which by the way, is REALLY pimped out. Sookie opens the door as Bill and Katarina are getting dressed after getting busy. Yes, it appears that Bill moved while Sookie was hanging out with the faeries.
Sookie asks for Bill’s protection from Eric. Bill suggests that she seek shelter in another human’s home. She’s not too pleased with that answer but she’s even less pleased that he’s the new King of Louisiana.
#6: Flashback Time! We take a trip back in time to 1982 London when Bill was a punk rocker that got his blood fix in dark alleys. Fortunately, he was still a fairly decent blood sucker. This attracts the attention of Nan Flannigan of the American Vampire League who tells him that Louis Pasteur (a vampire) is working on a synthesized blood invention that will satisfy a vampire’s craving for human blood. She asks him to work with her cause to infiltrate the vampire groups that still want to hunt and kill humans.
We later see Bill being visited by Sophie Anne, the Queen of Louisiana. The AVL vampire SWAT team soon makes mincemeat of her at Bill’s command. After that Nan Flannigan pronounces him King of Louisiana.
#5: Poor Little Mikey. Arlene is so convinced that he’s evil that she’s losing it in public. Later, the baby spits in her eye and then appears to SMILE AT HER in a goofy baby way. Okay, I’m on to that kid. That’s not gas that’s causing him to smile like that. That baby’s teched!
#4: Tara startles Sookie by coming to visit her. The thing is, as Tara was approaching, Sookie has a vision of the evil fae running toward her. After she enters her house (which is actually now Eric’s house since he purchased it while she was away) she finds that Eric has built himself a cubby (a place to “sleep” during the day) in her house. Coffins are so last season.
#3: Bill warns Eric about the new coven in town, telling them about their ability to bring a bird to life. He says “if they can control the dead they can control us.” Eric takes him seriously and agrees to take care of the issues.
#2: Tara drops in on Lafayette and Jesus and they talk her into coming with them to a witches coven. At the coven meeting, Marnie tells them that they should attempt to raise a dead body.
And then, ERIC ENTERS!
This scares the hell out of everyone of course. Eric tells Marnie that her coven can no longer meet. When Marnie asks “what’s in it for me?”, Eric tells her that her terms are NOT negotiable. Eric then attacks Marnie, sucking her blood. When Tara attempts to help Marnie, Eric turns his attention on her but by then the witches have joined hands and started chanting. Marnie then begins channeling some ancient chick that begins speaking a chant in a foreign language. I’ve never seen Eric scared before but he’s definitely bleeping his pants at this point. When they’re done chanting Eric runs away.
#1: Crystal and Fenton decide that they want Jason to be one of them. She and Felton change into werepanthers and Crystal bites Jason in the side! Ooh, if you’ve read the books you know where this storyline is going!
The episode ends with Sookie finding Eric walking in a daze on the side of the road. Not only does he not know who she is, he doesn’t even know his own name. If you’ve read Dead To The World you know a bit about what just happened to Eric. I have to say that this is one of the best books in the series and marks the time when I truly fell in love with Eric’s character. Even if you haven’t read the earlier books you can read this book as a standalone. It’s REALLY good.
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