Jayson’s Reviews > Living Dead in Dallas > Status Update

Notes:
(1) In sum, I have to agree with my original review: that this was decently fun until the town orgy subplot tanked the book.
- If anything, listening to it made it worse.
(2) Continuity error: Bill's middle name here is Thomas, whereas the last book it was Erasmus.
- Possibly, Sookie found the gravestone of a different William Compton, but it wasn't treated that way.

Notes:
(1) So, I must have looked like I was biting down on a lemon wedge or a whole bag of Warheads the whole time I was listening to the orgy chapter.
- Without a doubt, my cringiest ever audiobook experience!
- Call me a prude or soft or whatever, but my enjoyment of romance novels seems directly correlative to the presence of graphic sex scenes, or rather their absence.

Notes:
(1) "I couldn’t have been more surprised if Jason had told me Bill had been dating Hillary Clinton (though Bill was a Democrat)."
- Bill and Hillary? I can see it.
- Makes sense. The antebellum South would have been decidedly Democrat.
(2) "They say that since the first rule of [sex] club is Keep Silent…"
- So, the first rule of sex club is don't talk about sex club?

Notes:
(1) "From behind one door came the unmistakable sounds of sex. To my relief, we passed that door by."
- I feel the same way when I read these books. I'm sure it's nothing to romance aficionados, but explicit sex scenes make me squeamish.
(2) "... I think it was the first time I’d seen another naked adult in my life, besides Bill."
- I guess Sam wasn't very memorable.

Notes:
(1) Interestingly, Godfrey (né Godric) the Roman vampire believes in God.
- I wonder if he was an early Christian, a relatively recent convert or somewhere in between.
- I get it, the vampire is more "Christian" than the pastor and his wife. Really, the whole hypocritical/bigoted evangelical trope feels so stale and cliché—albeit maybe not in 2002 when this came out.

Notes:
(1) Sookie discovers the Dallas vampires are being bugged.
- Apparently, magical as they are, vamps have a blind-spot for tech.
(2) Halfway in and there's been no graphic sex scenes, just implied sex in that classic movie way where the camera blurs and cuts away.
- A sharp contrast with the first book, which found every reason to describe sex at length and in detail.

Notes:
(1) "There was a little refrigerator well stocked with PureBlood, but this evening Bill would want the real thing."
- Well, PureBlood is a definite improvement over LifeFlow. I wonder if it's a Harry Potter reference?
- Do blood brands not have spaces between words? I mean, is this a vampire thing? Do they not like spaces? Or is the absence of them somehow appealing?

Notes:
(1) "[Bill] might have a pretty steady diet of LifeFlow (the most popular marketing name for the synthetic blood) but nipping my neck was incomparably better."
- LifeFlow is no Tru Blood, that's for sure. It's a horrible brand name!
- Honestly, if I didn't know better, I'd have assumed it was a brand of maxi pads.
- Thank goodness the TV show wasn't named "LifeFlow."

Notes:
(1) You know, the main reason I stuck with this series to the bitter end on my first go-round is because the books went by super-fast. Seemingly, it's the same with the audiobooks.
- Despite being ten hours long, I finished the first book in no time at all.
- I don't know why. Maybe it's the first-person POV, because they're uncomplicated, and/or I do less rewinding?