All Together Dead (Sookie Stackhouse, #7)

by Charlaine Harris

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published

April 25th 2008 (first published 2006) by Ace Books

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Mass Market Paperback, 342 pages

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Sookie Stackhouse

setting

The United States

isbn

0441015816 (isbn13: 9780441015818)

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Louisiana cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse has her hands full dealing with every sort of undead and paranormal creature imaginable. And after being...more

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11/08/08

Logan rated it:

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bookshelves: blood-suckers, horror, mystery-thriller

Read in November, 2008

You know the worst thing about these books? They're like cotton candy. On face they look incredibly filling and satisfying but then you bite into them and the fluffy candy mass turns into so much sugar and you're just as hungry when you're finished as you were when you started. Except now you're out of money and your mom wants you to ride the Ferris wheel with your little sister.

I've devoured all seven of the Sookie books and now I want more, except there aren't any more. Yet. N...more

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10/14/08

Miranda rated it:

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bookshelves: vampire-fiction

Read in November, 2008

Snooze fest. The avalanche of characters and the painful descriptions of the wedding just came so ridiculous, and I had to skip many pages. I am not the biggest fan of Quinn -- so that could be my reluctance to this book. I just wish Sookie would go to Eric and stop fighting her feelings.

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10/31/08

Becky rated it:

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bookshelves: 3-star, fantasy, fiction, mystery-and-thrillers, owned, owned-read, recommended-to-me, reviewed, romance, series-and-sequels, vampires, _author-harris-c, _series-sookie

Read in November, 2008

**POSSIBLE SPOILERS**

Again, I have to mention that this series is in desperate need of a decent editor. I mentioned this in my review of Book 5 (Dead as a Doornail):
"Jason's boss is Shirley (Catfish) Hennessey in Book 4, but in Book 5, all of a sudden he's Shirley (Catfish) Hunter. What?!?" In Book 7, we're now back to a version of Hennessey, although it's misspelled as "Hennessy".

This series as a whole, is interesting, mysterious and sexy. I f...more **POSSIBLE SPOILERS**

Again, I have to mention that this series is in desperate need of a decent editor. I mentioned this in my review of Book 5 (Dead as a Doornail):
"Jason's boss is Shirley (Catfish) Hennessey in Book 4, but in Book 5, all of a sudden he's Shirley (Catfish) Hunter. What?!?" In Book 7, we're now back to a version of Hennessey, although it's misspelled as "Hennessy".

This series as a whole, is interesting, mysterious and sexy. I feel the need to find out where this is all going, but this book certainly felt like it was missing something that contributed to the earlier books' "unputdownability."

Maybe it was Sookie and Bill's relationship, which I loved, that kept me wanting more. Even though I knew it couldn't last through the entire 8 book series (so far, anyway), I have held out hope for their relationship. There are hints that a reconciliation may be in the works, but it seems unlikely that will happen at this point.

The more I think about the later books in the series, the more Sookie frustrates me. She burns bridges before she's even crossed them fully, and cuts people entirely out of her life, for the silliest reasons I have ever seen. She holds grudges and makes off-the-cuff life-changing decisions that make no sense to me. Maybe it is her sense of pride that causes her to do this, or maybe she is jaded by being able to know peoples' intimate thoughts, I just don't know.

I still don't understand why she was so upset with Alcide. Please, someone explain it to me. Really. So he knew about Debbie. So? He had abjured her, and its not like he was going to turn Sookie in, or kill her. I think that Sookie was pissed at him for having the audacity to know what happened and still like her.

Or, how about this mystery... Why was Sookie angry with Quinn after finding out he was a fighter? Hmm? These things are lost on me. I don't get what the big deal is.

But anyway, I'm ranting. Nothing was resolved for me in this book like I had hoped at the end of the 6th book. I'll renew that hope for the 8th book, and also up the ante and hope that Sookie learns to relax a little and stop acting so damn high & mighty. She is not perfect herself, so I wish she would stop expecting others to be. *nod*
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11/26/08

Katty rated it:

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My absolute favorite Sookie stackhouse to date. A lot of stuff happens in this book, but towards the end the action is great and goes somewhere you weren't really sure Ms. Harris would take you. Sookie travels to a Vampire Summit with Queen Sophie-Ann's entourage, which lends to some hilarious moments with different vamps and the fangbangers at their side. Like I said before, there is a lot more action then in previous books which is just exciting. Plus Quinn and Eric play for sookie's interest....more

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11/26/08

Maggie rated it:

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bookshelves: own, paranormal-fantasy, read-2008

Read in December, 2008

This book was a hit for me. I love this series, even though it doesn't make me smarter or a better person for having read it. And even though it's totally unbelievable and Sookie is nothing like me, and a little silly.

In All Together Dead, she's heading to the Vampire summit, the Vampire Queen of Louisiana(that's right, Queen of Louisiana, see above paragraph)plans to use Sookie's telepathic abilities. She and Quinn are hot and heavy and Eric and Sookie's relationship also moves to ...more

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11/06/08

Jim rated it:

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bookshelves: fantasy, paranormal

Read in February, 2009

Still very entertaining, but I was disappointed by her adding creatures from another dimension that could become invisible. It was a bit too much for me. The parts could have been handled by other supernatural creatures without going so far afield. It went too far beyond the scope of the world she's created without a good reason.

Also, the setup by the Fellowship was too transparent & unrealistic. The security lapses were just too gross & the scheme was ludicrous.

I d...more

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11/30/08

Tonya rated it:

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Read in December, 2008

Best one in the series! Easy read, Eric comes center stage for sure. A Bill fan no longer am I.

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02/18/09

Jerry Dazzlepants rated it:

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Read in February, 2009

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10/05/08

Angela rated it:

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Read in October, 2008

If Book 6 of the Sookie Stackhouse series was a turning point, then Book 7, All Together Dead, is the drawing of battle lines. Vampire politics, were politics, and an upsurge of human fanatic reaction to the undead are all in the forefront of this plot, making it arguably one of the most substantial of the Sookies to date.

Sookie is called upon to join the party of the Queen of Louisiana for a vampire summit in the (fictional) city of Rhodes. Once there, she has all sorts of competing...more

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09/21/08

Anastasia rated it:

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I think the first book in this series came out about the same time as Kim Harrison's preternatural series as well as a few other vampire-related series. I was still carrying a torch for the Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series, in hopes that Laurell K. Hamilton would quit putting so much sex in her stories and start writing good alternate fiction again. Add a protagonist whose first name is Sookie (a name I just don't get), and I chose to pass.
Then, at the beach one weekend, I read ano...more

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12/23/07

Lain rated it:

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Sookie Stackhouse, mind-reader extraordinaire, is hired by Louisiana's vampire queen to attend the big vampire summit in Illinois. Of course, nothing goes as planned, and the vampires are under attack by both humans and other competing vampire congregations. Sookie must try to determine everyone's real motives and keep the queen, her exes (both vampires, of course), and her current squeeze safe, while keeping herself out of trouble, too.

The best of the Stackhouse books, Book #7 has ...more

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08/10/07

LJ rated it:

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bookshelves: female_author, illinois, louisiana, mystery, paranormal_fantasy

Read in June, 2007

ALL TOGETHER DEAD (Para/Mystery-Sookie Stackhouse-Louisiana/Illinois-Fantasy) – VG
Harris, Charlaine – 7th in series
Ace, 2007, US Hardcover – ISBN: 9780441014941
First Sentence: The Shreveport Vampire Bar would be opening late tonight.
*** Telepathic barmaid Sookie Stackhouse has been hired to protect against non-Vamps at the Vampire Queen of Louisiana at the Chicago Vampire Summit where the Queen must defend herself against charges of murdering her husband. Compli...more

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05/22/08

Korynn rated it:

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For those who can't stand it any longer, Sookie and Quinn finally have some quality time in the beginning. Then her life goes back into the usual chaos she seems to thrive on, in this case a vampire summit during which A LOT of bad things happen and Sookie manages to entangle herself with her former beaus again. I liked this one because there are so many new characters and yet you get a strong impression of each one. Some old characters reveal a little more about themselves, in some cases too mu...more

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11/24/07

Kathy rated it:

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Read in June, 2007

From a blog post I wrote in 2007:

The latest entry in Charlaine Harris' Southern Vampire Mysteries, finds telepath Sookie Stackhouse attending a Vampire summit meeting in Chicago. She's there to gather information for the Louisiana Vampire Queen and also in attendance are her current boyfriend, Quinn the were-tiger, her former boyfriend Bill and former fling Eric, both vampires.

I enjoyed the story (the sex scenes were quite nice) but I did find myself frustrated with Sook...more

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02/22/09

becky rated it:

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Read in February, 2009

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Finally - we're back to the vamps and in a big way! In this book, Sookie and Quinn have finally gotten together romantically, but they still don't see a whole lot of each other. Having become of interest to the Queen of Louisiana for her telepathic abilities, Sookie (along with the Northern Louisiana vamps) are summoned to Illinois for a big old Vampire Summit. This is post-Katrina Louisiana so the vampire queen is low on cash, missing a few devoted vamps and charged with the killing of her h...more

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01/17/09

Nymphsin rated it:

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Read in March, 2008

recommended to Nymphsin by: Hunter's Haven forum
recommends it for: Sookie fans the world 'round.

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06/27/09

Todd rated it:

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06/25/09

Helen rated it:

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In this seventh of the Sookie Stackhouse stories, Sookie is once again up to her neck in supernatural beings. This time she has been contracted by the queen of Louisiana to accompany the Louisiana delegation to a vampire summit being held in Rhodes, Illinois. Her purpose is to listen in to the humans and let her party know if there is any lying or other collusion going on. Sookie's latest "boyfriend", Quinn, is in charge of orchestrating several events at the summit, and her former ...more

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06/24/09

Teresa Watson added it (review of isbn 0441014941)

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Read in June, 2009

As a telepath, Sookie is sometimes called upon to assist Sophie-Anne LeClerq, the Queen of Louisiana. This time, Sookie must go with the Louisiana group to Rhodes, where Sophie-Anne is on trial for killing her husband, Peter Threadgill (King of Arkansas), at their wedding reception. Sookie knows the truth and is there to testify on the Queen's behalf.

They check into the Pyramid of Gizeh hotel, where vampires from all over the country have come to meet. Sookie meets up with Barry Bell...more

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05/25/09

JBradford rated it:

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Read in May, 2009

In one sense I am happy to find that I am coming to the end of the series (although not really, as my daughter has just loaned me a hardcopy of another sequel, and I am told that still another is coming out in October), but in another sense I hate to find the story coming to an end. But maybe it never will; the last-previous book ended with a paragraph listing loose ends that still had to be wrapped up, and this book clearly did not do it. The time has come for the big conference of vampire ro...more

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