“I’ve lived my whole life in different parts of the South, and it just speaks to me,” Harris said.
Apparently that’s what she’s most familiar with, having grown up in Mississippi and attended college in Memphis, Tenn. She’s not squeamish about putting a bullet in someone if they threaten her or the people she’s hired to protect.īetween this series, the Sookie Stackhouse mysteries and the Midnight Texas, books, Harris has a lot of stories set in the American South. The gun-for-hire is Lizbeth Rose, a pragmatic young lady who takes her jobs (often bodyguarding) seriously. So as far as I was concerned, Harris giving me a young gunslinger girl in a Western series with a little bit of magic was an instant win. And I love Westerns, on account of growing up reading Louis L’Amour. I’ve got a soft spot for fantasy novels that have strong female protagonists, from “War for the Oaks” by Emma Bull to the Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series by Laurell K. The unique setting is part of what makes the series so fascinating to read.īritain took America’s eastern coast, Canada and Mexico each extended their borders a bit, the western coast became the Holy Russian Empire, the south essentially formed a new Confederacy called “Dixie,” and smack dab in the middle of it all is this little independent section of land called Texoma, where the story begins. After Roosevelt’s death, America broke into pieces, and other nations took chunks of land for themselves. Harris called the Gunnie Rose series an alternate history Western, set in the 1930s, at a time when America has collapsed following the fictional assassination of President Franklin D.
It takes place in a literal combination of Colorado, Texas and Oklahoma. This series is set next door to Arkansas … sort of. Seeing as book three, “The Russian Cage,” is coming out next month, I reached out to Charlaine Harris and requested an interview. (Admittedly, I’m a picky reader).Īmong the book series I discovered last year were the Gunnie Rose novels by Charlaine Harris, the mastermind behind “The Southern Vampire Mysteries” (which were adapted into the popular “True Blood” television series).īook one in the series is called “An Easy Death,” and book two is “A Longer Fall.” I log everything I read on Goodreads, and the website told me I finished 45 novels last year. Being an extrovert with nowhere to go kills me, so I visit other worlds. Almost nothing has helped me to get through this pandemic like books have.
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