A Book Oopsie, I Can't Be The Only One

So for Christmas a wonderful person got me the Sookie Stakhouse (a.k.a TrueBlood) books box set. Yes, I was super jazzed! Since then I have been reading them every chance I get, in line at the drive thru, pumping gas, and even at stoplights. If that was you honking at me, I’m sorry, good book. I should put that on a bumper sticker.

The first book I kept thinking I was going to put it down, and was mildly upset I was stuck with these books. The book was so different then the TV series, which happens, but it was insanely different and that was hard for me to overlook. Also some of her writing style was a little questionable to me. In my opinion if you are writing in first person then that person shouldn’t note things like their personal appearance just for the sake of saying it. I finished “Dead Until Dark”, and liked it, ok, but wasn’t needing to know what happened next. Since I had seven books I figured I would start the next one, “Living Dead In Dallas”.

I flew through this books and the next two within a week or so. Sookie kept getting drama dumped on her front doorstep, I had to know what happened. As I was reading though I found myself thinking how very similar this book series is to Laurell K. Hamiliton’s, Anita Blake series, enough so it made me wonder if Ms. Harris had read the Anita Blake series before she put pen to paper. Even with the similarities, sometimes screaming in my face, I found myself concerned about Sookie.

I finished the fourth book, “Dead To The World”, and grabbed the next book. I was about 15 pages in and realized I had no idea what was going on. Frustrated I read the order of the books and realized I had gotten confused, I had grabbed the wrong book. I was actually reading the sixth book not the fifth. I was furious, how could I have made such a silly mistake? So now here I sit reading the fifth book, “Dead As A Doornail”, knowing exactly what happens at the end of this book. I know who dies and who gets mad at Sookie, etc. It’s awful. So the suspense in this book is pretty much gone for me.

So I ask you, have you ever been reading a series of books and accidentally read a book out of order? Were you annoyed with yourself or did it not bother you at all?

I can’t be the only person out there, right? If you have ever been in the same boat as me, tell us about it.