The plot wraps Sookie's trip to Dallas and her encounter with the Fellowship of the Sun into the middle of a local plot about the murder of Lafayette in connection with a sex club. Lafayette had been the cook at Sam bar, Marlotte's, The second season of the True Blood HBO series has broadly followed the plot of this novel in its first five episodes, but with differences, e.g., Lafayette was not the one mysteriously murdered by having his heart removed.
The Fellowship of the Sun is a Christian fanatic group whose only real purpose is to oppose vampires. The conflict in Dallas, where Sookie and her two vampire suitors Bill and Eric confront the Fellowship, is surrounded by a second plot line that plays out in Bon Temps. This involves Miss Clarissa, a maenad, a supernatural follower of the Greek god Dionysus, whose presence becomes entangled with a murder mystery.
In Dallas, Sookie meets Barry the Bellboy in their hotel, which caters to vampires. Barry is another telepath and he and Sookie discover they can send telepathic messages to each other. More shapeshifters, one perhaps a bat, two other werewolves, one a doctor (animal shape not specified) are added to Sam, who revealed himself as a shapeshifter in the first novel. Shifters and vampires don't always get along well together but sometimes find themselves cooperating for the common good.
Eric, the leader of the vampires' Louisiana Area 5, shapes up as someone in whom Sookie has some interest. He had seemed more of an exclusively threatening presence in the first novel. Bill remains Sookie's vamp boyfriend. But tensions arise when Bill has a mysterious apparent romance with Portia Bellefleur, sister of one of the local cops. Near the end of this novel, when Eric's arrival at her house surprises Sookie, we learn that the vampires in the Sookie Stackhouse world have to have the permission of humans before they can enter their houses.
As in the first novel, the plot is much less important than the characters and Sookie's wide-eyed amazement at her continuous discoveries about the supernatural community. The plot is more complex than the first novel's, though.
This book gives the human life dates of Vampire Bill - William Thomas Compton is his full name - as 04/09/1840-11/25/1868. A supporting character, Tara Thornton, is introduced in this novel. Benedict "Eggs" Tallie is Tara's boyfriend. Tara runs a clothing store in a strip mall that Bill has bought. There's an orgy party, too.
The first half of Season 2 of the HBO series True Blood largely follows the plot of Living Dead in Dallas. Not completely, though. Jason isn't a convert to the Fellowship in the book as he is in the TV program.
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