Dead Ever After (Sookie Stackhouse, #13) in SOS: Serious Overload of Series

Apr 14, 2013 KarenF rated it it was ok

Shelves: paranormal, library

So this series ends not with a bang but with a "meh". Unlike others I wasn't upset by who Sookie ended up with. I thought it had been hinted at throughout the series and (view spoiler). In fact for the first 200 pages or so I thought this was a return to the feel of the early books and I was enjoying it. But then the Sookie of the more recent books showed her ugly face. I'm not sure when it happened, when she turned so judgmen So this series ends not with a bang but with a "meh". Unlike others I wasn't upset by who Sookie ended up with. I thought it had been hinted at throughout the series and (view spoiler). In fact for the first 200 pages or so I thought this was a return to the feel of the early books and I was enjoying it. But then the Sookie of the more recent books showed her ugly face. I'm not sure when it happened, when she turned so judgmental, self centered and insufferable but at one point my only hope for a satisfying ending was that someone beat her to death with a shovel.

Of course, all the mens still love her. And if they aren't at her beck and call she spends pages wondering what's wrong with them. Of course, they've been bespelled or under some sort of arrangement where they can't help. Because dear lord, why else would they not drop everything to help Sookie!

But she thinks so unkindly about most of her female friends,even those who drop everything and run to her aid. But of course, the wimmins are jes jellus. At one point Sookie is so amazed that her boobs aren't the center of attention she actually has a conversation with them. As a rather well endowed woman myself, I can tell you, I've never talked to them because I thought they were being upstaged.

By the time other people are critically injured in her defense or in the course of investigating who is threatening her and Sookie is more concerned about the fact that she can't fold her laundry or pour a glass of iced tea (apparently she's too idiotic to figure out how to put a glass on the table and then get the pitcher out so she can do it one handed) I had to keep putting the book down. Yes, she got shot in the arm and I'm quite certain that that hurts. But another person got shot in a more critical place and needed to be transferred to a larger hospital and Sookie is more concerned about her lack of iced tea than his health. After that someone else gets beaten badly trying to find stuff out for her and her first thought is about where she can stash him that he won't bug her. When she tells him where she's putting him his first reaction is that he isn't safe there. She quickly just dismisses that "eh, you'll be fine". Wow, the caring, I can feel it.

I'm normally not this hard on a heroine from a book. I think women have enough pressure on how to behave and I enjoy many a strong heroine. But Sookie isn't strong, at some point she became a whiny, self centered, judgmental ass more concerned about how to clean the blood in her house than her friends. So two stars instead of one because I thought we had the old likable Sookie back in the beginning so would have given that part 3. The end gets one since I had to keep putting it down. By the time I was wishing that the "bad guys" would torture and kill Sookie I knew that I'd probably never read another even if this wasn't the last. ...more

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May 08, 2013 Tamara rated it liked it

First I want to thank Ms. Harris for her books. Charlaine and Lauren K. Hamilton were my first authors I read that focused on urban fantasy. My relationship with Sookie has had it's ups and downs but I'm glad that I read the books.

There seems be a lot of hate & whining because people didn't get the ending they wanted. Hell a lot of people are giving the book bad reviews without reading the book. I'm glad that the series ended the way that it did and with whom. If you followed Charlaine's blog y ...more

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May 09, 2013 Missyb rated it really liked it

Sad to see the series end, but looking forward to 'After Dead: What Came Next In The World Of Sookie Stackhouse' Due out 10/29/13.

Quick read, just couldn't put it down (as with most of this series for me). Sookie's life is in turmoil/change, with just about every aspect. Sam & her are at a weird stand point, so is she with Eric. It's like the only one there is Tara, Bill, and Jason. A old friend turned enemy pops back up and asks Sookie for a job, which Sookie turns her down. Shortly after that ...more

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Jul 27, 2013 Kerstin rated it it was ok

Shelves: urban-fantasy, borrowed, read-in-2013

After the last few books have been a big disappointment (due to the lack of an actual gripping and interesting storyline; characters getting personality transplants; etc), I was hoping for at least a great finale to the series...but unfortunately that didn't happen.
Pretty much each and every character showed up to stand in line for a nice (or not so nice) wrap up to their story; some received one sentence some a bit more. Old enemies came out of the woodworks and got dealt with as well. And all ...more

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Feb 28, 2013 Dawn (Kat N Hat) rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: vampires, werewolf, shifters, urban-fantasy, magic, psychics

Hmmmmm... After all the hype about the horrible ending to this series, I have to say I am not surprised. A little sad (TEAM ERIC!), but as the author put it there is no way to make everyone happy. And while Eric has made Sookie happy for a few books now, it was a doomed relationship.

This book had the supposed HEA with a big bow on it. All loose ends were tied up nicely. There were cameo's from almost every person Sookie has ever come in contact with. The only HEA that was missing was for Eric, ...more

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Jul 12, 2013 Julie Roy rated it did not like it

Shelves: series, 2013

Makes me terribly sad to give this book one star. Unfortunately, it doesn't deserve anything more. Charlaine Harris has deeply disappointed her fans. ...more

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