Dead but Not Forgotten

Stories from the World of Sookie Stackhouse

By: Charlaine Harris - editor, Toni L. P. Kelner - editor, Rachel Caine, MaryJanice Davidson, Leigh Evans, Jonathan Maberry, Seanan McGuire

Narrated by: Johanna Parker

Length: 12 hrs and 32 mins

Publisher's summary

Charlaine Harris' smash-hit Sookie Stackhouse series may have reached its conclusion, but the world of Bon Temps, Louisiana, lives on in this all-new collection of 15 stories. Written by a killer lineup of authors, including New York Times best-sellers Rachel Caine, MaryJanice Davidson, Jonathan Maberry and Seanan McGuire, and with introductions read by Charlaine herself, Dead but Not Forgotten puts your favorite characters center stage.

The stories included in Dead but Not Forgotten are:

"Nobody's Business" by Rachel Caine (featuring Kevin Pryor & Kenya Jones)
"Tyger, Tyger" by Christopher Golden (featuring Quinn)
"The Real Santa Claus" by Leigh Perry (featuring Diantha)
"Taproot" by Jeffrey J. Mariotte (featuring Andy Bellefleur)
"Knit a Sweater Out of Sky" by Seanan McGuire (featuring Amelia)
"Love Story" by Jeanne C. Stein (featuring Adele Hale Stackhouse)
"The Million-Dollar Hunt" by Jonathan Maberry (featuring Mustapha Khan)
"Borderline Dead" by Nicole Peeler (featuring Desiree Dumas)
"Extreme Makeover Vamp Edition" by Leigh Evans (featuring Bev & Todd)
"Don't Be Cruel" by Bill Crider (featuring Bubba)
"What a Dream I Had" by Nancy Holder (featuring Alcide Herveaux)
"Another Dead Fairy" by Miranda James (featuring Claude & Claudia Crane)
"The Bat-Signal" by Suzanne McLeod (featuring Luna)
"The Sun, The Moon, and The Stars" by Dana Cameron (featuring Pam Ravenscroft)
"Widower's Walk" by MaryJanice Davidson (featuring Eric Northman)

Dead but Not Forgotten was edited by Charlaine Harris and Toni L.P. Kelner.

©2014 Charlaine Harris, Inc. (P)2014 Audible, Inc.

Critic reviews

"Wildly entertaining... Crisp storytelling, sharp dialogue, and great pacing are the highlights of what, for Sookie fans, will be an anthology to die for." ( Romantic Times)

It was good catching up with great characters

If you could sum up Dead but Not Forgotten in three words, what would they be?

Major character update

What did you like best about this story?

I like that a lot of the secondary characters were given a story of their own ( Dianta, Quinn, Eric, etc) now we need a sequel on the sequel.

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

She brought life to the story and she brings life to the sequel.

Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

The one with Dianta made me laugh and Eric's made me happy.

Any additional comments?

This was a very good series and another sequel would be great.

Relating Characters.

I really enjoyed the narrator and at first I was sceptical about the book, but to my surprise it exceeded my expectations. I enjoyed hearing about all the characters and their history or their personal or Dead but not forgotten story. Makes me want to reread all the books to see how the characters relate.

Mixed

Loved some stories and, of course, I loved the narrator. I HATED the last story about Eric. Except for the assassin component he came across as an old drunk reminiscing about what might have been. I found it most unsatisfying and pretty pathetic. If that was the author's point then he did well.

Great stories and narrator!

I'm glad they used the same narrator as the rest of the sookie books! I loved the short stories!

Overall worth the read

Any additional comments?

It was worth it just for Dianthaa, Bubba, & Eric's stories. I didn't care for Pam's, it was hard to follow and it felt wrong.

Bubba's story was about when he was captured and put on the cross by the Mississippi vampires. Dianthaa's book you got a glimpse of a future Sookie and Sam. Eric's alone I would have bought the book for. It was 201 years after he left.

For the most part, the various authors did a great job taking the existing characters and giving a small story from their perspective. It's a good addition to the Stackhouse series.

Dead But Not Forgotten At All!

If you could sum up Dead but Not Forgotten in three words, what would they be?

Delicious Little Snippets

Who was your favorite character and why?

Diantha - her take on who Santa really is is awesome!

Which character – as performed by Johanna Parker – was your favorite?

Pam. She had the snark down pat!

Any additional comments?

When Audible offered me the chance to try the latest book set in the Sookieverse, I didn't balk at the fact that I had never read an audio book before, but jumped at the opportunity to see Sookie's world through eyes other than her original creator, Charlaine Harris! (And for those of you who have never read an Audio book before: if you have an Amazon account and a smart phone, you can hook up your Amazon account to Audible and download the Audible app and you are ready to roll! For fitness junkies, you can now run and read AT THE SAME TIME! So much love for my new reading regime.)

And what a treat this book is. Now I know a lot of fans are pissy at how Charlaine Harris ended the Southern Vampire Mysteries series - so much so that my review of the final book, Dead Ever After, is still one of my largest viewed reviews on this blog - but please, please, PLEASE give this book a chance! Dead But Not Forgotten is written entirely by authors other than Charlaine Harris. Yes, Harris has edited the novel, but the work is still each author's creation.

And what a delicious blend there is. Not only do we get to see the world through the eyes of some of the big players in Sookie Stackhouse's world; Alcide, Eric Northman, Pam - but we get welcomed into the lives of the smaller players too - and this is where the magic occurs.

While I was excited to see stories dedicated to Eric and Pam, it was the stories of Bubba, Diantha, Kevin & Kenya and Bev & Todd that really made my day. Each story is fantastically written as well as woven seductively around the other main characters in Bon Temps and Shreveport.

Great Stories

This is a great collection of stories based on the characters from Sookie Stackhouse. The assorted writers composed stories that are true to character (unlike the True Blood debacle). It helps that Johanna Parker narrates. It makes me want to read books by the authors.

Not bad

It’s nice to know what happened to the rest of the people in the book

Fun stories after the series

I liked most of the stories. Some of them I couldnt wait to get through but that was mostly because I didnt care about the character. Good addition overall.

Great return to BonTomps and Sookie's world.

I have read and enjoyed all the Sookie Stackhouse books and miss not having new ones, so this was a great return to that world. Johanna Parker did a fantastic job reading each of the short stories and I feel made the return trip 100%, because you could feel you were back in Sookie's world hearing her voice. Thank you for this treat.