Ergebnis für "True Blood" in Science Fiction & Fantasy

Liebe, Mord und Alltagsleben - eine bissige Lektüre mit Tiefgang: Sind Vampire wirklich gesellschaftsfähig? Wenn es nach "Vorübergehend tot" von Charlaine Harris geht, ja. Zumindest, wenn es um den gut aussehenden, düsteren Mann geht, den Kellnerin Sookie Stackhouse eines Tages in einer Bar kennenlernt. Leider ist er nicht der einzige Vampir auf der Welt und so überstürzen sich in der friedlichen Kleinstadt Bon Temps bald die unangenehmen Ereignisse.

Die Kellnerin Sookie Stackhouse hat eine Pechsträhne. Zuerst wird einer ihrer Kollegen ermordet und es gibt keinerlei Hinweise auf den Täter. Kurz darauf steht sie einer Bestie gegenüber, die ihr mit giftigen Krallen schmerzhafte Wunden zufügt. Dann: Auftritt der Vampire, die ihr nicht ganz uneigennützig das Gift aus den Adern saugen... und das ist erst der Anfang.

Sookie Stackhouse hat nur mit einem Vampir freiwillig Umgang, und das ist ihr Geliebter Bill. Aber er ist in letzter Zeit so distanziert - und außerdem in einem anderen Staat. Sein finsterer, unattraktiver Chef Eric hat eine Idee, wo er sein könnte. Ehe sich Sookie versieht, ist sie in Jackson, Mississippi, um sich in der Unter-Unterwelt des Club Dead umzusehen. Das ist ein gefährlicher kleiner Laden, in dem sich die elitäre Vampirgesellschaft trifft, um auszuspannen und sich einen Schluck Null Rhesus Negativ zu gönnen.

Sookie doesn't have that many relations, so she hated to lose one - but of all the people to go, she didn't expect it to be her cousin Hadley, a consort of New Orleans' vampire queen - after all, Hadley was technically already dead. But she is gone, beyond recall, and she's left Sookie an inheritance - one that comes with a bit of a risk - not least because someone doesn't want Sookie digging too deep into Hadley's past - or her possessions.

Tess Graham weiß nicht mehr weiter. Auf der Flucht vor ihrem ehemaligen Arbeitgeber, einem mächtigen Dschinn, gehen ihr allmählich die Möglichkeiten aus. Aus reiner Verzweiflung beschließt sie, in die Dienste eines einflussreichen Vampyrs zu treten. Sie weckt das Interesse Xavier del Torros, der als rechte Hand des Königs der Nachtwesen tief in die Intrigen der Alten Völker verstrickt ist. Obwohl Tess seine wahre Natur fürchtet, fühlt sie sich schon bald unwiderstehlich zu ihm hingezogen.

Amarl is a hizeen, a half-spirit, and the first of his kind ever to enter Askula Academy, whether he wants to or not. There, he joins the other novices seeking to become ithtaru, the supernatural defenders of the Umpratan Empire. He'll learn the arts of battle and magic, and the secret to the powerful abilities that make ithtaru an invincible force.

Termed merciless by some, and a robotic sociopath by others, Payal Rao is the perfect Psy: cardinal telekinetic, CEO of a major conglomerate, beautiful - and emotionless. For Canto Mercant, family and loyalty are everything. A cardinal telepath deemed 'imperfect' by his race due to a spinal injury, Canto cares for the opinions of very few - and ruthlessly protects those he claims as his own. Head of intel of the influential Mercant family, he prefers to remain a shadow in the Net, unknown and unseen.

Car mechanic and sometime shape-shifter Mercy Thompson has learned, the hard way, why her race was almost exterminated. When European vampires immigrated to North America, they found Mercy's people had a hidden talent - for vampire slaying. Unfortunately for Mercy, the queen of the local vampire seethe has discovered her true identity. She's also furious when she learns Mercy has crossed her and killed one of her vampires. Mercy may be protected from direct reprisals by the werewolf pack, but that just means Marsilia will come after Mercy some other way.

"I have a television so I know what a family is supposed to look like but mine is nothing like that. To begin with, both my parents are dead. Not the kind of dead where you bury them in the ground, say some nice words, cry a lot and then never see them again. Nope, when they died they refused to ‘go into the light’ or whatever it is you’re supposed to do when you die. Instead, they came back home. As ghosts. Have you ever been sent to your room by a parent who has no corporeal form? I have and it sucks..."

Picking up right where A Longer Fall left off, this thrilling third instalment follows Lizbeth Rose as she takes on one of her most dangerous missions yet: rescuing her estranged partner, Prince Eli, from the Holy Russian Empire. Once in San Diego, Lizbeth is going to have to rely upon her sister Felicia and her growing Grigori powers to navigate her way through this strange new world of royalty and deception in order to get Eli freed from jail where he's being held for murder.

The Dark Tower meets True Blood in this gritty and wildly entertaining tale of Gunnie Rose, a woman fighting unimaginable odds to keep her people alive after the disintegration of America. This is a surefire hit for fans of The Walking Dead or Westworld.

In this second thrilling instalment of the Gunnie Rose series, Lizbeth Rose is hired onto a new crew for a seemingly easy protection job, transporting a crate into Dixie, just about the last part of the former United States of America she wants to visit. But what seemed like a straight-forward job turns into a massacre as the crate is stolen. Up against a wall in Dixie, where social norms have stepped back into the last century, Lizbeth has to go undercover with an old friend to retrieve the crate as what's inside can spark a rebellion, if she can get it back in time.

Felicia, Lizbeth Rose's younger half-sister and student at the Grigori school within the capital of the New Holy Russian Empire in San Diego, is caught between secrets and powerful family struggles. As a distant relative to the Tsar, she provides an essential service to him by providing blood transfusions for his hemophilia, and she is thus given rare access and dismissed as if cattle. At the Grigori school she is seen as a charity case, a poor orphan with no prospects and no sign of magical prowess—the latter which Felicia keeps purposefully hidden.

Sokkie har ikke mange familiemedlemmer tilbage, hvorfor hun hader at miste endnu et, og af alle de tilbageværende forventede hun bestemt ikke, at det ville være hende kusine Hadley - som teknisk set allerede var død - der ville være den næste. Hadley var ledsager til New Orleans vampyrdronning, og efterlader Sookie en arv. En arv som ikke er helt risikoløs, da der er flere som ikke er interesseret i, at Sookie graver for meget i Hadleys fortid - eller i hendes ejendele.

Elsabet or Elizabeth Bathory's life is notorious and, for the most part, known to history. What she's done since is another story altogether. Haunted by the crimes of her life and by her bloodfather, Vlad Dracula, Elsa seeks a life of her own in the New World. But her past will always catch up to her and she must face her demon.

Sookie har en uforbederlig evne til at befinde sig midt i alverdens farlige situationer, og hun er derfor også vidne til nedbrændingen af Merlotte's, hvor hun arbejder som servitrice. Da Sam Merlotte er kendt for at være en hamskifter, falder mistanken straks på anti-skifterne i området. Sookie har andre teorier, men hendes opmærksomhed bliver afledt, da hun finder ud af, at hendes elsker, Eric, og hans "barn" planlægger at slå deres vampyrleder ihjel.

Da Sookie ser sin bror Jasons øjne begynde at ændre sig, ved hun, at han nu for første gang er ved at skifte til en varpanter. Hendes bekymringer bliver til iskold angst, da en snigskytte retter sit sigte mod den lokale bestand af hamskiftere, og Jasons nye panterbrødre mistænker ham for at stå bag mordene. Sookie har indtil næste fuldmåne til at finde ud af, hvem der står bag overfaldene - med mindre snigskytten finder hende først.

Sookie Stackhouse er 25 år og servitrice i en af sydstaterne. Der er en ting, som adskiller hende fra de andre unge i byen - hun kan læse menneskers tanker. Og kun de levende menneskers tanker. Da en "ung" vampyr en dag kommer ind og bestiller et glas blod, er det en stor lettelse for hende, at der endelig er et menneske, hvis tanker hun ikke kan høre. Hun bliver forelsket i vampyren Bill.

Det overnaturlige samfund i Bon Temps, Louisiana, er så småt ved at komme sig oven på to katastrofer: Først orkanen Katrinas hærgen og så en voldsom eksplosion på det hotel, hvor et stort vampyrtopmøde blev afholdt. Sookie Stackhouse overlevede med nød og næppe og er tilbage på vampyrbaren Merlotte's, hvor hun langer årgangsblod over disken. Men alt er ikke, som det plejer, for flere vampyrer blev dræbt eller såret i attentatet, og hendes hamskifterkæreste Quinn er blandt de savnede.

Sookie har vænnet sig til at være omgivet af forskellige typer af udøde, changeling, shapeshifting og andre overnaturlige væsener, men selv hun har sine begrænsninger. Selv om hun har brug for at komme sig oven på hendes store vampyrkærlighed, Bill, som forrådte hende, og vænne sig til hendes nye kæreste, den sexede shapeshifter Quinn, deltager hun i en længe planlagt vampyrtopmøde.