Definitely Dead (Sookie Stackhouse, Book 6)
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Read in August, 2007
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Those who enjoy vampire mysteries
Sookie Stackhouse is a barmaid in a rural town in Louisiana. She can also read minds, well most minds. She has a harder time with most supernatural creatures, and can't read vampires at all. In this installment of her story, she heads to New Orleans to claim her inheritance from her vampire cousin who is now truly dead. While there she gets tangled in with the vampire Queen of the state, and in the process comes to a couple of startling revelations.
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Read in October, 2008
I knew it would only be a matter of time before Sookie began to annoy me a little, and this book marked the beginning of it. To be fair, though, I'm not sure it if was her so much as her interaction with Quinn that didn't sit that well with me. After the previous book, it was kind of a no-brainer that Quinn would become the next addition to Sookie's growing parade of suitors. I didn't really care for him or his relationship with Sookie. The whole "I shall compliment you at any given moment,...more
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people who have already read the other books in the series
I thought "Definitely Dead" was such a funny name for a book that I borrowed this one from the library. Something to read while the turkey was cooking. With several hours on my hands and no cable tv, I stuck it out to the end, despite... well, despite everything.
This book is, maybe, third or fourth in a series. I have deduced this because that is the number of men/vampires/weres the protagonist used to be involved with and has, in this book, only salty feelings for. So there's a lo...more
This book is, maybe, third or fourth in a series. I have deduced this because that is the number of men/vampires/weres the protagonist used to be involved with and has, in this book, only salty feelings for. So there's a lo...more
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Read in April, 2008
When you're sitting around at loose ends between books, this is the fluff that sustains you. In this volume, three plots entertwine. In one Sookie is to go to New Orleans to clean out her deceased cousin's apartment which comes with heavy baggage. In another Sookie continues to be haunted by the death of Debbie Pelt in a rather noticable fashion. And finally, Sookie begins to understand that there is no turning back from this new world of were, vamps, witches, fairies, etc and she would be bette...more
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I can buy that Sookie is incredibly attractive to the average undead. And I can buy that she just seems to encounter dead bodies every time she turns around. But I still have trouble understanding how SO MUCH seems to happen to her. I'm not looking for realism (or I wouldn't be reading a book about vampires), but I would like a little more pacing and plotting so I can recover from one near-brush with death before another comes tearing around the corner.
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Read in June, 2006
DEFINITELY DEAD (Supernatural Mystery-Louisiana) – G+
Harris, Charlaine – 5th in series
Ace, 2006- Hardcover
Sookie Stackhouse is a cocktail waitress and telepath. Her love life is a mess, people are being murdered in her yard and Sookie has to go to New Orleans as she has inherited her Cousin Hadley’s estate. This isn’t easy as Hadley was consort to the vampire Queen of New Orleans and not everyone wants her there.
*** I love this series. DEFINITELY DEAD, to me, was a really goo...more
Harris, Charlaine – 5th in series
Ace, 2006- Hardcover
Sookie Stackhouse is a cocktail waitress and telepath. Her love life is a mess, people are being murdered in her yard and Sookie has to go to New Orleans as she has inherited her Cousin Hadley’s estate. This isn’t easy as Hadley was consort to the vampire Queen of New Orleans and not everyone wants her there.
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Book 6, and I have to say this is my least favorite of the series. IMO the plot is full of starts and stops, and seems to go nowhere. The book swayed from boring to silly. The only interesting part was the developing relationship with Quinn, which was great fun, and such a bright star in this novel. Unfortunately, the Quinn introduction was just that, an introduction, and a minor subplot. So I guess we will have to wait until the next few novels to see how this relationship plays out. Too ...more
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Read in September, 2007
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fiction story
This book is part of a series of southern vampire novel.
This story is about a vampire, Sookie Stackhouse who lives in Louisiana. She has just heard the news of the recent death of her cousin Hadley, who is supposedly the vampire queen of New Orleans. Her cousin, Hadley, has left everything to Sookie. However there is a high risk in order to claim her inheritance. There are people out there that doesn't want Sookie to dig too deeply into her past, or her new possessions. These dangerous peopl...more
This story is about a vampire, Sookie Stackhouse who lives in Louisiana. She has just heard the news of the recent death of her cousin Hadley, who is supposedly the vampire queen of New Orleans. Her cousin, Hadley, has left everything to Sookie. However there is a high risk in order to claim her inheritance. There are people out there that doesn't want Sookie to dig too deeply into her past, or her new possessions. These dangerous peopl...more
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Read in December, 2007
Definitely dead is the 6th book in the southern vampire series. In the beginning of the book Quinn, a shifter who turns into a tiger, becomes Sookie’s boyfriend. When Bill finds out he becomes jealous. But Sookie Is enraged with because the first reason he came to Bon Temps was to get her confidence. He was sent there by the queen of Louisiana to get Sookie’s ability for herself. She also told him to use whatever measures were needed. When Sookie found out she said she never ...more
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Charlaine Harris's Sookie Stackhouse series holds a good deal of tongue-in-cheek humor. Each of the seven books in the series is a fast read. Sookie, herself a fairly attractive but ordinary small-town girl with a very rare talent for mind-reading, gets caught up with a supernatural community populated by Vampires, Weres, Shifters, Fairies, Demons, and other kinds of rare and dangerous types.
Each kind of supernatural group has it's own agenda, and somehow Sookie gets embroiled in events af...more
Each kind of supernatural group has it's own agenda, and somehow Sookie gets embroiled in events af...more
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Read in January, 2008
It felt like I missed a book somewhere between this one and the last one of the series. There was a lot going on and I felt a little out of the loop. Sookie goes goes New Orleans to meet the queen of LA, who has married the king of AR. Trouble follows, as it always does. She learned something new about Bill and Debbie is still haunting her. After the book is over, Quinn is a new romance possibility and I'm not sure I dig on Alcide anymore. Or Bill for that matter. *Spoiler* and we find out Soo...more
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Read in February, 2008
As I started reading this book I felt like I was missing something. I know I didn’t mistakenly read the series out of order because that is my absolute pet peeve. But with mentions of an incident with Sookie’s cousin Hadley and the Vampire Queen happening over and over again I finally went on Amazon and found out there was a short story about Sookie in the anthology Bite that I had missed. That seriously detracted from my enjoyment of this book, and overall it was just an okay entry into the...more
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Read in May, 2008
A bit annoying that you really have to have read the short story published in Bite to fully understand what's going on in this book, couldn't they at least have put the story in the paperback edition?
Also near the end the book feels a bit rushed, like she was distinctly on a deadline and had to finish it, which lead to some sloppy editing and some continuity errors, in particular, Sookie's Aunt Linda is her Father's sister, not her Mother's, and this error is seen twice.
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Also near the end the book feels a bit rushed, like she was distinctly on a deadline and had to finish it, which lead to some sloppy editing and some continuity errors, in particular, Sookie's Aunt Linda is her Father's sister, not her Mother's, and this error is seen twice.
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Read in May, 2008
I haven't opened this in months, and I think I'm ready to admit I won't pick it up again. It's a fun, slick style, but when I stopped I was halfway in and the plot was only just kicking in; up until that point it had simply been Harris kicking around her world, enjoying herself. Maybe that would work if I was already invested in the characters, but coming in on Book 4 or whatever this was, I honestly wanted some story.
A strong romantic subplot might have held up a weak storyline and kept my ...more
A strong romantic subplot might have held up a weak storyline and kept my ...more
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Again, this is a case of reviewing the entire series instead of individually. The books are all of equal quality and pretty much continue the story in pleasing fashion. Charlaine Harris has not let herself sink into the trap of overriding her editors and going over board on their work like Laurell K. Hamilton. Thank-you Ms. Harris! I enjoy this series quite a lot, thank you very much! Sookie Stackhouse is a fun, uncomplicated, nice girl I'd like to meet...despite her ability to read my mind...more
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I'm hooked on this series. Certainly not great literature, but excellent entertainment. I'm not a big vampire lit fan, but these books hold their own with good plots,and well-developed characters and a vampire culture/worldview. Slightly reminiscent of Evanovich's Stephanie Plum, although Sookie isn't laugh-out-loud hilarious. Still, she is a personable telepath with a wry sense of humor and a date book full of assorted vampire and were- love interests. A great series with a unique perspective. ...more
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Read in August, 2007
Harris continues to delve more into the Were/shifter worlds, with just a bit of icing of vampire, mostly politics. Quinn returns from his cameo in a prior book to make an interesting character, although a bit too "perfect" for my taste. Sookie continues to make judgement calls on her male admirers, so Harris hasn't fallen to the harem bug yet. Her standing up for herself against her ex was a good point of the book, although some of the subplots spun wildly. Not sure if any of the l...more
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Read in July, 2006
I did not enjoy this book quite as much as the others in the series. I don't like the path that Sookie and Bill's relationship has taken, I don't think she should be so angry. I like Quinn some but even he does not seem to be the guy for Sookie and I hate the habit he has of calling her 'Babe'. The storyline was okay although it just barely touched upon some unanswered questions from previous books. It did leave us with some interesting new people for future books. I still look forward to more i...more
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Read in August, 2008
One of the most amazing things about the universe that Charlaine Harris created for her characters is how it grows in complexity with every new story. I never dreamed when I first started reading about the romantic adventures of Sookie Stackhouse that what would really have me coming back is the descriptions of the politics of the supernatural world. In describing mundane, day-to-day business, she finds humor, warmth, silliness and satire - all things that make for truly great fantasy ...more
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Read in April, 2007
The further adventures of Sookie Stakhouse. This is book 6 in the series. Sookie has a new boyfriend, a were-tiger, but all the old ones are still hanging around. She travels to New Orleans to close up her deceased cousin’s apartment. While there she meets and befriends the vampire queen and a powerful witch. She has a run in with a werewolf turned vampire and gets caught in the middle of a vampire war. Sookie handles it all with as politely as one can. It is a fun romp with plenty of twists a...more
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