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After Dead: What Came Next in the World of Sookie Stackhouse (Sookie Stackhouse/True Blood) Hardcover – October 29, 2013

by Charlaine Harris (Author), Lisa Desimini (Illustrator)

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Find out what happened after the conclusion of the #1 New York Times bestselling Sookie Stackhouse series.

Dead Ever After marked the end of the Sookie Stackhouse series—novels that garnered millions of fans and spawned the hit HBO television show True Blood. It also stoked a hunger that will never die…a hunger to know what happened next.

With characters arranged alphabetically—from the Ancient Pythoness to Bethany Zanelli—bestselling author Charlaine Harris takes fans into the future of their favorite residents of Bon Temps and environs. You’ll learn how Michele and Jason’s marriage fared, what happened to Sookie’s cousin Hunter, and whether Tara and JB’s twins grew up to be solid citizens.

This coda provides the answers to your lingering questions—including details of Sookie’s own happily-ever-after...

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“It’s the kind of book you look forward to reading before you go to bed, thinking you’re only going to read one chapter, and then you end up reading seven.”—Alan Ball on Dead Until Dark

“Vivid, subtle, and funny in her portrayal of southern life.”—Entertainment Weekly

“Charlaine Harris has vividly imagined telepathic barmaid Sookie Stackhouse and her small-town Louisiana milieu, where humans, vampires, shapeshifters, and other sentient critters live…Her mash-up of genres is delightful, taking elements from mysteries, horror stories, and romances.”—Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

“[An] entertaining series…It[’s] easy to understand why these oddly charming books have become so popular.”—The New Orleans Times-Picayune

“[A] light, fun series.”—Los Angeles Times

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Charlaine Harris is a New York Times bestselling author for both her Sookie Stackhouse fantasy/mystery series and her Harper Connelly Prime Crime mystery series. She has lived in the South her entire life.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Ace; First Edition (October 29, 2013)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 208 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0425269515
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0425269510
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 11.4 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.41 x 0.78 x 7.35 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #232,260 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #330 in Vampire Mysteries
- #2,620 in Contemporary Fantasy (Books)
- #5,316 in Paranormal Fantasy Books

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Charlaine Harris was born in Tunica, Mississippi, and raised in the Mississippi River Delta area in the middle of a cotton field. Though her early works consisted largely of poems about ghosts and, later, teenage angst, she wrote plays when she attended Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee and started writing novels a few years later.

After publishing two stand-alone mysteries, Harris launched a light-hearted mystery series 'starring' Georgia librarian Aurora Teagarden. The first of the eight books, Real Murders, was shortlisted for Best Novel in the 1990 Agatha Awards. In 1996, she released the first of the much darker Shakespeare mysteries, featuring the amateur sleuth Lily Bard, a karate student who makes her living cleaning houses.

Charlaine Harris then wrote the first of her Southern vampire mysteries starring Sookie Stackhouse, the quirky, telepathic waitress who works in a bar in the fictional Northern Louisiana town of Bon Temps. Dead Until Dark won the Anthony Award for Best Paperback Mystery. It also won Harris a whole new fan club of devoted readers and pushed her into the bestseller lists. The Sookie Stackhouse series, in which Sookie has to deal with vampires, werecreatures and other supernatural folk - not to mention her own complicated love life - was also instrumental in creating the urban fantasy genre.

Sookie Stackhouse also enchanted Alan Ball, creator of the smash TV show Six Feet Under, who took an option and wrote and directed the pilot episode for True Blood himself. It was an instant hit when it premiered in the US, and that success was repeated when it was first aired in Britain last year. The second season of TRUE BLOOD will start this spring.

Harris's newest series features Harper Connelly, a young woman who, after being struck by lightning, finds herself able to locate the bodies of the dead and to determine the cause of their death. There are four Harper titles (Grave Sight, Grave Surprise, An Ice Cold Grave and Grave Secret).

Charlaine Harris is a member of the Mystery Writers of America and the American Crime Writers League. She is a member of the board of Sisters in Crime, and alternates with Joan Hess as president of the Arkansas Mystery Writers Alliance. She is married, the mother of three, and lives in a small town in Southern Arkansas. When she is not writing her own books, she reads omnivorously!

Here are the Sookie Stackhouse True Blood novels in series order:

Dead Until Dark: Sookie Stackhouse 1

Living Dead In Dallas: Sookie Stackhouse 2

Club Dead: Sookie Stackhouse 3

Dead To The World: Sookie Stackhouse 4

Dead As A Doornail: Sookie Stackhouse 5

Definitely Dead: Sookie Stackhouse 6

All Together Dead: Sookie Stackhouse 7

From Dead To Worse: Sookie Stackhouse 8

Dead And Gone: Sookie Stackhouse 9

Dead In The Family: Sookie Stackhouse 10

A Touch Of Dead (a Sookie Stackhouse short story collection_

Here are the Harper Connelly novels in series order:

Grave Sight: Harper Connelly 1

Grave Surprise: Harper Connelly 2

An Ice Cold Grave: Harper Connelly 3

Grave Secret: Harper Connelly 4

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Customers love the series and find this book a nice wrap-up to the series. However, some feel it's not worth what they paid for, and a waste of money. They find the storyline contrived and boring, with contrived and depressing made-up endings. Many mention the book is short, only 195 pages long. The writing quality is described as poor and written like a dictionary. Opinions are mixed on the character development, with some finding it lacking emotion and others providing a brief future view of the main characters.

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108 customers mention "Love of series"108 positive0 negative

Customers enjoyed the series. They found the book a good wrap-up to the series, though some felt it was just okay.

"...You will be royally pissed off if you have to pay for this. I loved the series, I don't have any complaints about the books, but this book right..." Read more

"...draining to be stuck on a series for so long but it was a great series for a long time and she has obviously decided to kill it right out...." Read more

"...Thank you Charlaine for a great series!! I eagerly bought this book as was desperate for more Sookie, and had just devoured her last Sookie novel...." Read more

"...I advise you to buy this amazing book." Read more

178 customers mention "Character development"65 positive113 negative

Customers have different views on the character development. Some find it detailed and satisfying, with a future view of all the main characters. Others feel there is not enough information about major characters and unnecessary updates on characters that don't matter. There are also complaints that most characters meet sad, lonely ends.

"...The inconsistencies of her characters and their situations in later books, the way she completely emasculated her characters -- male and female, and..." Read more

"...The ending was, in my opinion, extremely satisfying and fitting to the characters and I saw the "happily ever after" from a mile away...." Read more

"...Sometimes you get one-liners. This was never meant to flesh out characters, provide more character development, or give you another "series" novel...." Read more

"...But honestly there are SO MANY characters in this "book" that were long forgotten because their story lines were so tangential to the..." Read more

141 customers mention "Read time"86 positive55 negative

Customers have different opinions about the book's read time. Some find it a quick, enjoyable read with an encyclopedia-like style. Others mention the book is difficult to finish due to its short length and lack of story.

"...Original Review: Humorous and a quick read, this outlines what happens to characters years after the series completed...." Read more

"...It takes about a half hour to read, if you're distracted...." Read more

"...Charlaine Harris' After Dead was quite an unexpected read...." Read more

"...This is an incredibly fast read, but it is interesting just how Harris chose to do this and answer questions about second, third, even fourth..." Read more

132 customers mention "Information quality"46 positive86 negative

Customers have different views on the information quality. Some find it interesting and thorough, providing a roadmap of all the major characters. Others feel there is little information and lack of substance.

"...Having said that, the index needed more entries. The first three characters I read about didn't ring a bell. They didn't even ring a little one...." Read more

"...Not the exact blurb, but a good summation...." Read more

"...was a book full of characters I don't even remember and little blurbs about their lives but most commonly how they died...." Read more

"...The text provided is of such little informative value that I feel I gained no more knowledgeable than I prior to reading it...." Read more

508 customers mention "Value for money"27 positive481 negative

Customers are dissatisfied with the book's value for money. They find it disappointing and a waste of money, with only 195 pages and an expensive purchase. Some customers feel it makes them seem selfish and egotistical.

"...price of this little (emphasis on "little") book is certainly not worth the price. Almost $10 for about half an hour of reading...." Read more

"...This is the most pathetic excuse for a money grab -- milking fans of a final dollar -- that I have ever seen...." Read more

"...is probably a helpful piece of reference material, but the price is a little high and the quality could have been better." Read more

"...It just isn't worth it. At all. If you feel you must read it, please do yourself a favor and get it from a library or borrow it from someone...." Read more

177 customers mention "Storyline"46 positive131 negative

Customers find the storyline lacking in imagination and suspense. They describe it as a short-story summary of what happens to all the Southern characters. The deaths and events are boring, with contrived and depressing made-up endings. There are no surprises or new revelations, and the book lacks any imagination.

"...-- male and female, and the way she changed situations and carelessly forgot story lines she had previously set into motion ... it all ads up to a..." Read more

"...just decoration or only a few sentences (or less), and downright depressing made-up ends for a majority of the characters, but it doesn't even feel..." Read more

"...there were a couple characters who I invested in, who had interesting story lines that got one line "they had many more adventures" Maybe..." Read more

"...NO!!! There is no story line or even a hint of a story line...." Read more

121 customers mention "Book length"24 positive97 negative

Customers find the book short and lacking in depth. They feel it's not a full-length novel and that entire pages are wasted on just a few sentences.

"...many blank pages and pages comprising of just decoration or only a few sentences (or less), and downright depressing made-up ends for a majority..." Read more

"...Although as most people have been saying, the book is short. We learn what happened to the characters in a short paragraph. Sentences really...." Read more

"...I won't say don't buy it, but do understand that the brief wrap ups are short and sometimes not very satisfying." Read more

"...I also think that the length for most of the stories was fine...." Read more

69 customers mention "Writing quality"20 positive49 negative

Customers find the writing quality poor. They mention it's not like others, has brief synopses, and is written like a dictionary. There are only five or six pages of fully typed writing in the entire book. The summary seems misleading and half-finished, like a TV script.

"...It's actually hard to review the text because there is so little of it...." Read more

"...Suffice it to say that the writing is lazy and is obviously intended to do nothing more than to profit off the blind admiration of her fans...." Read more

"...This is basically a quick and dirty way of getting to know what happened to everyone else from the series...." Read more

"...The writing is poor and not well thought out. It was clear in the last novel which was also poorly written that the author was tired of the series...." Read more

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Amber
Overpriced.
Reviewed in the United States on October 29, 2013
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I loved this whole series, start to finish. The ending was, in my opinion, extremely satisfying and fitting to the characters and I saw the "happily ever after" from a mile away. Since After Dead was announced, I had been looking forward to learning about the fates of the characters that I'd been reading about for so many years...

That said, the price of this little (emphasis on "little") book is certainly not worth the price. Almost $10 for about half an hour of reading. Some pages had only ONE line of text! And lines like "he continued to have many adventures," which I suppose is a hint that there may be a couple of spin-off series, but is nevertheless extremely unsatisfying in the here and now, when one has paid almost $10 for a couple pages of writing. To be frank, this book is an outrageous ripoff. We already pay inflated prices for these ebooks, which require little to no materials, printing, binding, or distribution costs... To charge this much money for such a tiny amount of content is just insulting.

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Sookie Settles for Sam, Lives a Life of Mediocrity; Eric Finds Happiness in Slavery; Bill Becomes King of Louisiana (No, Really)
Reviewed in the United States on November 11, 2013
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If it were possible to rate a book for zero stars, I would have. This is the most pathetic excuse for a money grab -- milking fans of a final dollar -- that I have ever seen. Most character "wrap up" pages have no more than a couple of sentences (hardly enough to consider even a proper paragraph) on the entire page; many of them are characters that readers will be hard-pressed to even identify! Seriously. For the few major characters who warranted more details -- those given were pitifully thin, unsatisfying, and in some cases -- unbelievable.

I GET IT that this was a CODA. I get that this wasn't going to be a novel or even a series of short stories, please don't think for a moment that I misunderstood what I was getting into when I purchased this disappointing drivel. But I honestly hoped that there would be some kind of ending -- even if in outline form -- that would somehow set things right in the "Sookie-verse" after the mess we were left with after DEA. But alas.

It is obvious that Charlaine Harris quit giving a damn about the characters in her SS books some time ago; she gave up on Sookie, Eric, Pam, Sam, Alcide, Quinn, Bill, but worst of all -- she stopped caring about us. The inconsistencies of her characters and their situations in later books, the way she completely emasculated her characters -- male and female, and the way she changed situations and carelessly forgot story lines she had previously set into motion ... it all ads up to a sloppy mess.

CH spent spent so much time creating her characters, giving them strong back-stories, building their personalities, and delving into their strong and weak points, -- taking time to make her readers *care* about these characters -- and then she defecated all over the lot of us with this last bit of self-indulgent and pocket-lining horse dung.

It's almost like she handed over the care of her characters to a ghost-writer, and she told them to do whatever they wanted, because she no longer cared. Actually, that makes the most sense to me. Maybe that's what actually happened.

And to tease in the wrapups for a few of the minor characters listed in the book -- that we might hear more of their adventures later? Like we'd care to give this wretched writer (or her ghost-writer) another dime to read her meandering tripe? Give me a BREAK.

And yes ... Bill ends up as the king of Louisiana. Obviously *someone* has been watching True Blood, and she thought that throwing this in as the last bit of his writeup would satisfy fans of the show. Not this fan.

I'm not even sure why I care so much, but it is probably because I invested the time and money in this series only to learn that the author was setting me and all of her other readers up for a massive punking. =/

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Cherry on top of the sundae
Reviewed in the United States on November 22, 2013
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After reading some of the other reviews, I thought I would add to my own. If you were expecting this to be like another Sookie Stackhouse novel (after Charlaine already said she was finished with that), then you WILL be disappointed. This is not a novel. At most, you will get three or four short paragraphs about a character. Sometimes you get one-liners. This was never meant to flesh out characters, provide more character development, or give you another "series" novel. This was only meant to give you a brief outline of what happened to characters later on. You won't, for instance, read every detail of Erik's life after the series (that would be hundreds, if not thousands, of pages). I think readers aren't being particularly fair to Charlaine - many seem mad that she isn't content to write Sookie Stackhouse novels for the rest of her life, and others aren't content that she didn't go with how they envisioned the ending, despite the fact that she was VERY upfront from the start about where these characters (especially Sookie) would NEVER go. If you are a true fan of the books (rather than a fan of how you think the books should be), then you will really enjoy this. It's fun and funny and a quick read that is, as I said, the cherry on the sundae. If, however, you've spent a lot of time fantasizing about how you would've written the characters differently, then you probably won't like this, because it won't fit in with your vision.

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Humorous and a quick read, this outlines what happens to characters years after the series completed. Frankly, who Sookie ended up with was no surprise to me (I could see Charlaine heading in that direction from the very first book in the series), so I was happy with the ending of the series. This was like the cherry on top.

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lsangeadov
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Reviewed in Mexico on June 10, 2024
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Excelente para conocer que sucedió con los personajes (individualmente) después de Dead Ever After, no es una novela, son descripciones cortas de la A a la Z

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Leuk, als je zoals mij deze reeks graag leest!

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Well, it's at least something when you miss Sookie's world.

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L’ho letto in una sola serata, molto carino e compatto.

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Continued excellent writing
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