Our reread of Charlaine Harris’s Sookie Stackhouse series continues, with fifth book Dead as a Doornail.
“I knew my brother would turn into a panther before he did.”
With that opening line, Harris gives us a pretty good idea of the central plotline—shape shifter shooters, and shape shifter politics.
In the previous book, Dead to the World, Sookie’s brother Jason was bitten many times by a were-panther. He was not born a shifter, so he cannot turn into a full panther, but it’s possible he could react to the bites and turn into a panther/man hybrid at the next full moon. The chapter opens at the full moon, and Sookie is driving Jason to the were community of Hotshot, in case he does in fact change. Though the moon has not yet risen, Jason’s eyes have already turned yellow, and Sookie knows he will change.
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