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After Dead: What Came Next in the World of Sookie Stackhouse

(Sookie Stackhouse #Companion)

Charlaine Harris (Goodreads Author),

Lisa Desimini (Illustrator)

2.97 · Rating details · 14,557 ratings · 1,804 reviews

A must-have collection of juicy behind-the-scenes details and illustrations, to answer the ultimate Sookie Stackhouse and True Blood question: What Happened Next?!

DEAD EVER AFTER marked the end of the Sookie Stackhouse novels - a series that garnered millions of fans and spawned the hit HBO television show TRUE BLOOD. It also stoked a hunger that will never die. . . a hung ...more

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Oct 30, 2013 Izzy rated it did not like it · review of another edition

Unfortunately if you didn't feel betrayed before 'Dead Ever After', the final book in the series, you will feel betrayed with this...thing.
It's not a narrative or a short story. It's just short bullet points of Charlaine Harris twisting the story by going by her rules and NOT the rules of the Sookieverse.

I'm being serious. There's sadness, bitterness, anger and jealousy everywhere you look in this book. The majority of characters have horrific deaths, go through divorces and generally have an un Unfortunately if you didn't feel betrayed before 'Dead Ever After', the final book in the series, you will feel betrayed with this...thing.
It's not a narrative or a short story. It's just short bullet points of Charlaine Harris twisting the story by going by her rules and NOT the rules of the Sookieverse.

I'm being serious. There's sadness, bitterness, anger and jealousy everywhere you look in this book. The majority of characters have horrific deaths, go through divorces and generally have an unhappy, depressing life.
Also, there are continuity errors (these are mentioned in spoiler tag below). I don't know how she achieved that in such a small "book" but she did.

For instance,
(view spoiler)
These kind of mistakes are just appalling. Just goes to show that a) Harris is not a good planner or a good writer and b) Her continuity editor is not doing her work. The readers of this series know these characters. It's clear that Harris & Co do not know them at all.

I think CH thinks that the only characters that we should care about is Sookie. Sorry, but I don't care about Sookie any more -- she became such a bitch towards the end of the series. Because of this, CH only gives Sam and Sookie what could be considered a "happy" ending. What I mean by that, is that it's not completely happy. I adored early Sookie who was a lovely young woman but I detest the person that she became.
Oh, and Sookie and Co (Hunter and other little mites with telepathy) still hate their telepathy. How nice, right? They still think of it as a disability. This completely goes against everything the fantasy genre stands for. Sookie should have been proud to be telepathic; the whole point of the fantasy genre is that the protagonist is supposed to embrace their gift. Why Charlaine Harris believes that Sookie's telepathy is a "disability" is beyond me.

Charlaine Harris obviously enjoys creating all of these characters and then torturing them. It's like something out of a soap opera -- all of these characters fates are so crazy and so contrived (and happens to most of them) that you just can't believe them.
They make you so very depressed and you just think, "What was the point?"

This should have been free on her blog, website or even at the back of Dead Ever After. I don't recommend reading it. Imagine your own ending for these characters. Trust me, your imagination is a lot better than Charlaine Harris'. Harris may have started this series but she gave up on it a long time ago. It's clear that she dislikes romance, vampires, paranormal romance fans, happy endings and continuity.
Trust me, the average reader can run circles around Charlaine Harris and create a much better story.

...more

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May 11, 2014 Anne rated it did not like it · review of another edition

Shelves: kindle, short-stories, i-lost-brain-cells, read-in-2014, paranormal

Charlaine Harris should give classes on how to bitch-slap fans.
Really!
It's like she looked at all of those one star reviews for that last turd in the Sookie series, and said to herself:
Ha! Those sorry fuckers wanna know what happened NEXT?
Muhahahahahaha!
I'll show 'em what happens next...
And then she wrote the most laughable thing ever, and giggled all the way to the bank.
See, if she were really trying to soothe all of the ruffled feathers, she would have offered this up as a FREEBIE on her ...more

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Nov 05, 2013 Kevin Richey rated it did not like it · review of another edition

There are three things horribly wrong with this "book," and the first is that it exists at all.

The Sookie Stackhouse series (inspiration for the HBO series True Blood) has had 13 novels, close to 20 short stories, and a companion guide already. The last book, released in May, closed the series. It wrapped everything up, even if those conclusions were mostly disappointing to fans. This book has now been released as a "coda" to the series, so that author Charlaine Harris can give fans the answers There are three things horribly wrong with this "book," and the first is that it exists at all.

The Sookie Stackhouse series (inspiration for the HBO series True Blood) has had 13 novels, close to 20 short stories, and a companion guide already. The last book, released in May, closed the series. It wrapped everything up, even if those conclusions were mostly disappointing to fans. This book has now been released as a "coda" to the series, so that author Charlaine Harris can give fans the answers to what happens to everyone in the series, both major and minor, for the rest of their fictional lives. It's not an epilogue; there's no story here. This is simply what Harris thinks happens to the plumber from Book 4, or the lawyer's children who you never actually meet in the series, to Sookie and Jason, and so on—up until the day that they die. This is my first real complaint: readers aren't really supposed to get this kind of thing spelled out for them. After the book ends, what happens to everyone should largely be left in the reader's imagination. Still, as this was from the original author of the series, I tried to go in with an open mind.

The second major flaw with this book is Charlaine's complete lack of imagination in deciding everyone's fate, making the entries read like obituaries. Or, worse, skipping characters she doesn't want to think about at this time (!!!).

Geez, these people had boring lives. For some characters, all that is mentioned is that they died decades later. If the most interesting thing that happens to a person in their life is that they died falling off the toilet, that person doesn't deserve a book. Fiction is about excitement, the essence of life—not summarizing how many kids someone had, or reading like an obituary. Really, that's how this entire book felt: like reading the obituary of every single character, no matter how minor. This was both dull and depressing. Plus it's lazy, amateur writing throughout. Really sloppy. What's worse though is that she selects a few random characters and DOESN'T SAY ANYTHING ABOUT THEM. This is obviously because she plans to write more about them, or wants to keep that option open for herself even if she may never get around to it. One of the characters this happens to is Quinn, who was a pretty major character in the series. We find out NOTHING about him. This is his entry:

"JOHN QUINN had many more adventures."

That's it! And that takes up an entire page!

The third problem with this book is its short length coupled with its high price tag.

I think I read this in twenty minutes, and I tried to read slow to savor it. It is over 200 pages long. Out of curiosity, I actually counted the words on a random section (Letters P-Q), and it was somewhere around 350 words in roughly 20 pages of book. That makes it around 17.5 words per page. Average wordcount for fiction is 300 words per page. This means that if After Dead were formatted properly, it would be ELEVEN PAGES. Let me repeat that: IF FORMATTED PROPERLY, THIS BOOK WOULD BE ELEVEN PAGES. That is not an exaggeration or hyperbole. That is math.

The brevity of some of the entries is offensive. Some characters literally had two words written about them, and this takes up sometimes five pages, between the blank pages, and the "art" included. (There are graphics throughout of big letters to divide the book into alphabetical sections. I think there are more pages of these than pages of text.) I had luckily seen the negative Amazon reviews about this, and got my copy from the library. If I had paid the $18 asking price (I think you can get it for around $10 on Amazon, print or ebook), I would have been seriously pissed. This should have never gotten its own release; it's just too short. If Harris wanted to deliver this information, she could have put it up for free on her website, or added it to the Sookie Stackhouse Companion, which is in dire need of an update. That would have been more appropriate than telling fans she wrote a "coda" to the series, when all she did was write a few disjointed, lazy thoughts about characters' fates, most of whom nobody remembers.

In summary, DON'T BUY THIS BOOK. If you are a diehard Sookie fan, just grab a copy at Barnes and Noble and read it while getting a coffee. You'll probably have it done before your drink is made. Then put it back on the shelf and buy something else by an author who still gives a sh*t. ...more

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Oct 29, 2013 Olga rated it did not like it · review of another edition

Kill me. Kill me now with a fork. What I think about this book?

And I thought I was over it. But this woman knows how to twist the knife in your heart. I only had the morbid curiosity to read about Jason and Sookie, Pam and, of course, Eric. Biggest mistake in a while. I need brain bleach now.
Aside from more money, what was the purpose of this "book" again?

Remarkable quotes:
"Sookie and Sam had four children, the last being a complete surprise. Neal and Jennings came first, followed by A ...more

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May 10, 2013 Sahara added it · review of another edition

Shelves: authors-and-books-i-will-never-read

Oh really, another one.

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Aug 05, 2013 Megan Millisor rated it liked it · review of another edition

A great little way to tie up loose ends.

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Oct 29, 2013 Ava rated it did not like it · review of another edition

Dear Ms. Harris,
Please step away from your computer or put way whatever you use to pen your Sookie Stackhouse series. You are doing a disservice to your creation and as a former fan of your work I must tell you everytime you release something related to the series you are making it worse. My suggestion is to let your former fans take over and try to resuscitate this mess in the world of fan fiction. What happened to you? Did you loose your inspiration for Eric? For Sookie? If you needed help all ...more

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May 08, 2013 Linda rated it did not like it · review of another edition

Shelves: never-to-read-ever

Never, not a chance in h*ll, not even if I got paid to open it. See my review for the "final" book in SVM >> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...?

Is the next thing selling bed spreads with Sookie´s name? How can CH draw the last money out of this cash cow?
*snorts* Wait a month, and she´ll be back with something new.

(edited for a mis-conjugated verb) ...more

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Oct 31, 2013 Marie rated it did not like it · review of another edition

Oh dear, that was actually worse than I expected! Alright, first off: Don't buy this book. If you're like me, and you have some deep seated need to torment yourself, get it from the library.

The list price on the back of this baby is 18 bucks. Let me give you a quick mental image of what you're paying 18 bucks for. While the book is hard backed, it's the length and width of your typical paper back book, and has 208 pages, which doesn't sound that skimpy until you look at the pages. Most pages hav ...more

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Jul 31, 2013 Dany rated it did not like it · review of another edition

Lol…Really?

Has she got off her trolley completely?

Date of pub 29th of October?.. For the last one she had us waiting a full year and this one will come out in only few months... She is probably trying to win her fans back, after the incredible flop of the last book of the series... And the TV series as well is just going down the hill completely...

Guess what? I'd rather have my eyes ripped off that reading another of her books
...more

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Jul 01, 2013 Jennifer rated it did not like it · review of another edition

This isn't really another book in the series. It is more like an appendix with all the characters in the Sookie novels listed alphabetically. It very briefly summarizes the fate of each for those who are curious. To give an idea of how brief the coverage actually is, it took me about 30 minutes to finish reading. The majority of the book is filled with blank space and illustrations. The only characters that got more than one page worth of summary were Sookie and Eric.

I wouldn't recommend purcha ...more

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Oct 29, 2013 Bitchie rated it did not like it · review of another edition

Shelves: urban-fantasy, you-have-got-to-be-shitting-me, wtfery, vampires

Doing my "review" as I read this, because the WTFery is just, WTF?! It's going to be full of spoilers, so read past the spoiler line at your own risk.

First off, nearly 10 bucks for 200 pages. Ok. But then when you start reading, it's kinda like those little blurbs that they put during the end credits of a movie. "so and so was voted most likely to succeed. He knocked up the head cheerleader, and worked at the local dump". etc. Some of these "pages" only have two-three sentences! So way overprice Doing my "review" as I read this, because the WTFery is just, WTF?! It's going to be full of spoilers, so read past the spoiler line at your own risk.

First off, nearly 10 bucks for 200 pages. Ok. But then when you start reading, it's kinda like those little blurbs that they put during the end credits of a movie. "so and so was voted most likely to succeed. He knocked up the head cheerleader, and worked at the local dump". etc. Some of these "pages" only have two-three sentences! So way overpriced! (so glad I borrowed this!)

Most of these people I don't even remember. Pythoness? Isabel Beaumont? Christian Baruch? I wanted to know about our Bon Temps regulars, not people who got five minutes of page time in one book!

But now, the ones I DO remember (read these at your own risk, you've been warned):

(view spoiler)

And that is pretty much it. There were lots more people talked about, but I only posted about the ones I really remembered fairly well, and that upset me. Too much sadness and misery, really. I find this book to be a rip off, TOTALLY not worth the price being charged. Every bit of this could have been contained in the paperback of the last book. It would be more incentive for people to buy the paperback, and people wouldn't be gouged by this blatant RIP OFF. As my friends know, I was one of the few people who didn't go into a rage at the last book, I understood how Sookie ended up who she ended up with. But THIS- THIS will probably cause me to never buy one of this author's books again.
...more

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Oct 28, 2013 Scott rated it it was ok · review of another edition

I was actually one of those people who wanted to read this. But after I did (which didn't take very long) I was kind of sorry I did. First off, it definitely wasn't worth the amount of money I spent for it, it was so short. Also, most of the characters were people I don't even remember that well, and half of the ones I did, it just said "they had many more adventures", like she is planning on writing spin-off books for these characters (i.e. Barry the Bellboy). Also, she gave a lot of these char ...more

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Apr 03, 2013 Sharon ∞❥ is an emotional book junkie ❥∞ rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: read-in-2013

My Thoughts:

✦ Basically, this is an end summary of each character ever written about in this series. Many that I don't even remember! It is a very short book and clearly not worth the $8.79 asking price.

✦ I'm only going to touch on a few things and a few characters in the same A-Z format.

✦ I love the rosebush mail between Niall and Sookie.

✦ Bubba!! I wish something better had happened for him but the whole Nashville thing was a bit funny.

✦ Desmond Cataliades ~ he really grew on me and I li ...more

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Oct 30, 2013 Maggie Gordon rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: urban-fantasy

After Dead was a very strange and unfulfilling follow up to the Sookie Stackhouse universe. Harris writes short (often only a sentence or two long) notes on what happened to the different characters after book 13. However, many of the included characters are minor, forgettable people that readers probably don’t really care about, and several of the more popular characters suffered through very unfortunate lives. Not to suggest that events like heart attacks or divorces don’t happen, but for read ...more

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Nov 02, 2013 Branwen Sedai *of the Brown Ajah* rated it did not like it · review of another edition

Shelves: paranormal-romance

So I was actually MARGINALLY happy to see that this book was being released. Mostly because I felt that the ending to the last book in the series was pretty disappointing and was hoping to find some resolution.

Boy, was I wrong.

Luckily for me, I decided to skim through this in the bookstore before just buying it, which is what I usually do.

Thank god for that.

This isn't even a book. I don't now how it could be considered so, being that it is a series of little blurby sentences, sometimes paragrap So I was actually MARGINALLY happy to see that this book was being released. Mostly because I felt that the ending to the last book in the series was pretty disappointing and was hoping to find some resolution.

Boy, was I wrong.

Luckily for me, I decided to skim through this in the bookstore before just buying it, which is what I usually do.

Thank god for that.

This isn't even a book. I don't now how it could be considered so, being that it is a series of little blurby sentences, sometimes paragraphs on the eventual fates of the characters from this series.

So instead of buying it I decided to sit in once of the comfy Barnes & Nobles chairs and read it right there. It took me a whole ten minutes. No lie. And all it was, to be completely honest, was a complete and utter crapfest on this series. Many of the characters don't get happy endings. Many of them go through divorces, or die, or have other awful things happen to them. And much of it just didn't make any sense at all. I know that sort of makes it realistic and I understand that real life is no walk in the park, but this book takes it to a level of sadness that I can't even convey. And then the worst part? She basically confirms that Bill and Eric pine for Sookie for the rest of eternity and are miserable.

Seriously, Charlaine Harris? Are you kidding me?

I understand wanting characters to suffer so they grow and change but you've got to be kidding me. That sort of thing is usually done for a noble reason and this was done for no reason at all.

When I got done reading it all I felt was dismay and more disappointment.

I wish I could unread it.

I strongly STRONGLY suggest that you DO NOT read this so called book if you are a fan of the book series. Because it is an awful representation of it. And that's why I am so devastated by this, I think. I truly love the Sookie Stackhouse series, have read and loved every one. And this last piece of crap is nothing short of a travesty.

It upset me so badly that I don't even want to do a blog entry for this review. :/

Don't waste your time or money on this, my book friends. ...more

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Dec 08, 2013 Dinjolina rated it did not like it · review of another edition

Shelves: bipolar-alert, sorry-but-just-no, 15-tissues-later, blah, so-long-farewell

Are you sad?
Or are you satisfied?
Did you feel betrayed after Dead Ever after?
Not enough?
How about now?

There have been characters upon characters in the Sookie Stachouse series.
And there have been suitors upon suitors, one after the other. Many of us have been rooting for different men (I have not been team Eric all the time…I confess), and nobody was wrong per se. I think that some must have wanted Sam and Sookie together as well, but real build up was missing. And a genuine spark. Of all the re ...more

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May 23, 2013 Skye added it · review of another edition

Charlaine said that she wasn't writing another Sookie NOVEL. This is an addendum. Kind of like an extra-long epilogue.

Haters are gonna hate, I guess. ...more

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Oct 29, 2013 krtmd rated it did not like it · review of another edition

Spoilers dead ahead.

Originally, Ms. Harris considered posting this Coda to the SVM on her website as a freebie for her fans. I probably still wouldn't have enjoyed much of it - Jason's dumb telepathic daughter, JB the cheater, and Eric enjoying servitude while Bill the rapist buys a kingdom somehow aren't that appealing. Go figure.

But had she done that, no one would be feeling fleeced. Not worth a penny.
...more

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Mar 28, 2013 Eric marked it as to-read · review of another edition

Shelves: vampires, werewolves, fantasy, shifters, fae, urban-fantasy, adult-fiction, down-south, smoking-the-crack-pipe, coming-soon-to-a-screen-near-you

Are you fracking kidding me?! Just kill me. Honest to god, I can't take it. Forget the Mayan calender, more Sookie Stackhouse books AFTER the end of Sookie Stackhouse novels is my death. I just, I can't.. I.. I. fuck. ...more

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Feb 18, 2013 Cstillsquare rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: urban-fantasy

For series die-hards only, the coda is a set of brief blurbs about the fate of major and minor characters, A through Z. It's an enjoyable punctuation to the end of the series, with lots of sad, delightful, and sublimely mundane post-scripts to the characters of the SVM universe.

If you don't "get" the ending to Dead Ever After, there's no insight or redemption for you here. But if you enjoyed how the series played out and Eric and Sookie's fraught relationship, their coda entries are very bitter ...more

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Oct 29, 2013 Zee1 rated it did not like it · review of another edition

"Sookie wore white because it was traditional and she looked good in white, what with her tan and all."

It's nice to see that Sookie really is the vain, vapid, superficial person we know her to be by the horrible end of this series. If there's one thing that we now know she is always going to be in love with, it's her stupid tan.

What was the point of this book again? Oh yeah.. CH wasn't done emptying the diseased bowels of this horrible story. Glad it's all done now... no floating poop left one ...more

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Jan 23, 2013 Christal (Badass Book Reviews) marked it as to-read · review of another edition

What is this? Could it be an appendix?

...more

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Oct 29, 2013 Leslee rated it did not like it · review of another edition

Shelves: urban-fantasy

While I don't doubt the merits of some sort of 'Ever After' for some of the characters in the Sookieverse that weren't really covered that well in the final novel of the series, I seriously question the usefulness of this lackluster 'index' of what seems to be every Sookie character ever created, whether or not they only appeared once in the book. I really didn't care about 3/4ths of the people mentioned here and barely remembered them, if at all.

This would have been a lot better if Harris had ...more

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Oct 20, 2013 Mindy (Naughty Book Snitch) marked it as to-read · review of another edition

Another one?? Its like a bad train wreck! I cant look away! Im going to need some alcohol for this one... I can tell.
Lets see how many relatable gifs I can add because I WILL READ THIS.
NaughtyBookSnitch

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Oct 29, 2013 Kelly Trobaugh rated it did not like it · review of another edition

CH and Ace publishing should be ashamed of themselves. What a waste of paper and resources. Maybe its me, but those drawings look extremely cheezy and childlike. The fact that some pages had only a few words on them was simply a ploy to get the page count up to justify the cost. I definitely returned my copy for refund. Hope CH loses even more readers of any new work she puts out. This "book" just shows how little she values her readers. Shame Shame Shame

And after reading Eric and Bill's entrie ...more

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Oct 31, 2013 Ferdy rated it did not like it · review of another edition

Shelves: vampires, rubbish, wtf, blah, wtfery, ugh, pointless

Really?

This was barely a book, it was ridiculously short and it read worse than fan fiction. Why wasn't it just added to end of the last book? Why release a separate 'book' months later? Harris could have just put the content of After Dead on her website. Ugh, this was such a waste of money.
I didn't even remember most of the characters mentioned, why write about such insignificant characters? I wasn't interested in them at all.
I suppose it was sort of nice knowing what happened to the main char ...more

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Apr 02, 2013 Ang from OZ marked it as to-read · review of another edition

Here we go again. So much for the last one being the last one. Hey lets get some more money out of people by doing another book.

Let the whole Sookie saga be over pleeeeease!

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Oct 31, 2013 Erica rated it did not like it · review of another edition

I cannot believe I am admitting to reading this book. But some times you just have to be embarrassed for the greater good of your fellow readers!
Goodreads really needs to add a negative star option
Got it from a friend ( THANK GOD I didn't buy it) and ...wow. I can barely remember now what I liked about this series. But this...this was comically bad. Was it stupid? Yes. But lots of supplementary books to series aren't great. I just can't believe, that as a writer, you would want to put out such a ...more

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Dec 24, 2018 Ria rated it did not like it · review of another edition

Shelves: 1star

'' Hank Clearwater contracted gonorrhea. ''
Fucking kill me. thank god she dedicated a whole page to inform me. now i can finally die peacefully.
so i was planning on reviewing shit again in 2019 because i wanted to leave it at 55 because i'm a fucking weirdo but look bitch... i just HAVE to rant about this bland shameless cash grab.
Yeah okay sure, I've only read up to book 9 but still, who? oh yes finally a book with all my favourite characters. so memorable.... BTW, i know what happens in Dea ...more

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Charlaine Harris has been a published novelist for over thirty-five years. A native of the Mississippi Delta, she grew up in the middle of a cotton field. Charlaine lives in Texas now, and all of her children and grandchildren are within easy driving distance.

Though her early output consisted largely of ghost stories, by the time she hit college (Rhodes, in Memphis) Charlaine was writing poetry an Charlaine Harris has been a published novelist for over thirty-five years. A native of the Mississippi Delta, she grew up in the middle of a cotton field. Charlaine lives in Texas now, and all of her children and grandchildren are within easy driving distance.

Though her early output consisted largely of ghost stories, by the time she hit college (Rhodes, in Memphis) Charlaine was writing poetry and plays. After holding down some low-level jobs, her husband Hal gave her the opportunity to stay home and write. The resulting two stand-alones were published by Houghton Mifflin. After a child-producing sabbatical, Charlaine latched on to the trend of series, and soon had her own traditional mystery books about a Georgia librarian, Aurora Teagarden. Her first Teagarden, Real Murders, garnered an Agatha nomination.

Soon Charlaine was looking for another challenge, and the result was the much darker Lily Bard series. The books, set in Shakespeare, Arkansas, feature a heroine who has survived a terrible attack and is learning to live with its consequences.

When Charlaine began to realize that neither of those series was ever going to set the literary world on fire, she regrouped and decided to write the book she’d always wanted to write. Not a traditional mystery, nor yet pure science fiction or romance, Dead Until Dark broke genre boundaries to appeal to a wide audience of people who simply enjoy a good adventure. Each subsequent book about Sookie Stackhouse, telepathic Louisiana barmaid and friend to vampires, werewolves, and various other odd creatures, was very successful in many languages.

The Harper Connelly books were written concurrently with the Sookie novels.

Following the end of Sookie's recorded adventures, Charlaine wrote the "Midnight, Texas" books, which have become a television series, also. The Aurora Teagarden books have been adapted by Hallmark Movie & Mystery.

Charlaine is a member of many professional organizations, an Episcopalian, and currently the lucky houseparent to two rescue dogs. She lives on a cliff overlooking the Brazos River. ...more