{"id":123,"date":"2005-09-13T20:11:20","date_gmt":"2005-09-14T03:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=123"},"modified":"2021-05-31T07:31:57","modified_gmt":"2021-05-31T11:31:57","slug":"shakespeares-counselor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/123","title":{"rendered":"Shakespeare’s Counselor"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shakespeare’s Counselor<\/em> (2001) Charlaine Harris<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Shakespeares<\/a>My complaint about this book is that it was too engrossing. I laid down just to read a couple of chapters, and two hours later I found myself two-thirds of the way into the book, and not going to sleep early as I’d planned. Here I felt bad and wanted to get some extra rest, and I ended up going to be later than usual. And it’s entirely Charlaine Harris’ fault, since if she wans’t such a good write, I would have been able to put down the book abd go to sleep.<\/p>\n

Okay, I don’t really mean that. I just wish I would have realized how good the story was going to be, and not started reading it on a week night.<\/p>\n

I first came across Charlaine Harris’s Sookie Stackhouse stories, which can be best classified as erotic vampire mysteries. I enjoyed those mysteries so much that I wanted to read a different series, to see if I liked it as much.<\/p>\n

I found Shakespeare’s Counselor<\/em> used a snatched it up. I’m glad I did, because like the Sookie Stackhouse stories, this book is good and I quite enjoyed it. Although there are four books that come before this one, I didn’t feel as if I was missing anything by not having read the previous four, which is quite important in a mystery series.<\/p>\n

Charlaine Harris is very good at writing interesting, admirable, characters. I love the fact that Lily Bard worries about paying bills and pinches pennies and buys her clothes at Wal Mart and makes her living as a cleaning lady. It makes her seem far more real than some other female detectives I’ve read. <\/p>\n

Be aware, one of the themes in this book is rape–the counselor of the title runs a rape recovery group therapy session, so I would not recommend it for a younger reader. But the subject is covered very honestly, and I don’t think that it should scare off anyone else.<\/p>\n

As much as I enjoyed this book, I fear, however, that I may have to take up her Aurora Teagarden series, as Shakespeare’s Counselor<\/em> seems to be the last Lily Bard mystery published, and that was back in 2001, and according to her website, she isn’t planning on any more Lily Bard mysteries. But I find it hard to complain, if it means she’s writing more about Sookie Stackhouse.
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