All Together Dead

Sookie Stackhouse Southern Vampire Mystery #7

By: Charlaine Harris

Narrated by: Johanna Parker

Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins

Publisher's summary

Anthony Award-winning author Charlaine Harris has earned a devoted fan base with her USA Today and New York Times best-selling Sookie Stackhouse mystery series. All Together Dead features more dark but frequently hilarious adventures of buxom, blonde, beautiful, and telepathic cocktail waitress Sookie, who prefers the company of vampires to that of the living.

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©2007 Charlaine Harris Schulz (P)2007 Recorded Books

Critic reviews

"Humorous Southern-fried fantasy with biting satirical commentary....Harris juggles a large cast...with effortless exuberance." ( Publishers Weekly)

Enjoyable

If you are looking for deep reading you will need to go elsewhere. There's drama, intrigue, romance, and of course all the supernatural creatures you can imagine.
I wanted to listen to the next book as soon as I finished one. I like Charlaine Harris, and I like all the characters. It's interesting reading these after watching the True Blood shows. There have definitely been some changes in the show, the books are only from Sookie's viewpoint, so the show would have to be different to show the other people's view points. Well done.

Geez Sookie!

The struggle is real for Sookie Stackhouse, always hard to tell whos the real "bad guy". The vampires cant take her anywhere!

Sookie must work a vampire summit for the queen

This is the first post Hurricane Katrina book in the series, and because of the devastation to New Orleans the situation for the Louisiana Vampires has radically changed. The new best friend who had come to stay with Sookie for a short visit ends up being a Katrina refugee because her home while still standing suffered some damage that has to be repaired before she can return home.

In this one, whether she wants to or not, Sookie is required by the queen to attend a vampire national summit, and to make things worse her fairy godmother comes to her begging her not to go because something really bad is going to happen and she can't go because vampires LOVE the taste of fairies ... the good news is Sookie will be well paid for the work, and her new boyfriend will be there working the event. When she gets there she reconnects with the other telepath she met in dallas, who is now thanks to her gone from a menial labor job to working for the vamps. They work the event, bad things happen.

Over the course of the event a really old vampire tastes her blood without her permission and informs her she's got an ancestor who is a fairy.

A great series!

I’ve loved the entire series of books featuring Sookie Stackhouse. This is the first audio version that I’ve listened to and it was delightful. The narrator is exactly as I'd imagined Sookie's voice would be. The books feature fascinating, humorous characters that continually evolve and surprise as they travel through fast-paced plots.

Perfect Voice For a Favorite Series.

Would you consider the audio edition of All Together Dead to be better than the print version?

Neither is better than the other. I will say that Johanna Parker is my perfect version for Sookie. She just makes Sookie come alive all the better and with the correct accent clarified a few things that my 'Yankee' imagination couldn't.

Who was your favorite character and why?

Sookie is fabulous but I like my heroines with a little more barbarian and a little less lady. Of course maybe that's just how southern woman are. I also love Pam. If I could somehow combine both of them it would be perfect. I would like to see more of Diantha.

What does Johanna Parker bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?

The southern accent and correct southern pronunciation of words. I'f from as far north as you can get and still be in the USA. Sometimes it is hard for me to 'hear' the words correctly when I read.

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

Spoilers Sweetie.

Pretty good addition to the series :)

3.5-4 stars

This was a pretty good addition to the series. I liked Sookie in the story. The story starts out with Sookie living her normal life and there's a bit going on in her relationship with Quinn. Quinn has been working a lot and since he travels a lot for his work she hasn't seen him much but he does manage to stop in for a couple days to see her and things go well between them. The Vampire summit is coming up soon and they'll both be busy because of it since Sookie is going there with the Vampire queen of Louisiana and Quinn is one of the organizers. They do make plans to spend a month together after the summit since Quinn will be able to take time off work then. The summit is fraught with problems though... People are gunning for the queen while she's in a weak position and there's issues with the humans in the "Fellowship" planning an attack against the summit in order to take out as many Vampires as possible. Of course, Sookie gets caught up in the middle of a bunch of it and although she comes out alright she ends up with more burdens than ever.

This was a pretty enjoyable story. Sookie was her same self in this story and was pivotal in the plots and the foiling of them. Although she was with Quinn in this story, their relationship is far from stable and I'm not sure how things will proceed in the next book. She ends up being blood-bonded to Eric which is part of what causes some instability between her and Quinn. With all she goes through and sees, Sookie isn't interested in spending time with Vampires in the future (at least for a while) so I'm looking forward to seeing what happens next. Overall, the story was interesting and fast paced and I'd recommend it as part of the series. :)

FYI, the last 30 minutes of the audio version is actually a preview of the next book.

Sookie strikes again

This is my favorite of the Sookie Stackhouse books. There's vampire and shapeshifter action, good character development, plenty of action (more than I expected)....but Harris keeps Sookie's charm and likeability intact.

Eric Northman. Eric Northman. Eric Northman.

I've read/listened to this book multiple times over the years. It's one of my favorites of the series. It's not an amazing, life changing novel, but Eric Northman is in it, so I highly recommend it.

(I don't recommend continuing the series beyond book 8 or so).

Very exciting!

All kind of adventures and romance. I could not put it down. This is the second time I read this book. Enjoy !

love it

absolutely love these book and 5hey are read so well an absolutely must have these