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    Definitely Dead
    Definitely Dead
    Definitely Dead
    Audiobook10 hours

    Definitely Dead

    Written by Charlaine Harris

    Narrated by Johanna Parker

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    About this audiobook

    As a person with so few living relatives, Louisiana cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse really hated to lose one. But she never guessed that it would be her cousin Hadley-a consort of the Vampire Queen of New Orleans. After all, technically speaking, Hadley was already dead. And now, as unexpected heir to Hadley's estate, Sookie discovers the inheritance definitely comes with a risk. Someone doesn't want Sookie looking too deeply into Hadley's past-or for that matter, Hadley's possessions. And they're prepared to do anything in their power to stop her. But who? The range of suspects runs from the Rogue Weres who reject Sookie as a friend of the Pack to the Vampire Queen herself, who could be working through a particularly vulnerable subject-Sookie's first love, Bill. Whoever it is, they're definitely dangerous-and Sookie's life is definitely on the line.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateMay 8, 2006
    ISBN9781440780455
    Definitely Dead
    Author

    Charlaine Harris

    Charlaine Harris is a New York Times bestselling author who has been writing for over thirty years. She was born and raised in the Mississippi River Delta area. She has written four series, and two stand-alone novels, in addition to numerous short stories, novellas, and graphic novels (cowritten with Christopher Golden). Her Sookie Stackhouse books have appeared in twenty-five different languages and on many bestseller lists. They’re also the basis of the HBO series True Blood. Harris now lives in Texas, and when she is not writing her own books, she reads omnivorously. Her house is full of rescue dogs.

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    • 4/5
      this vampire series - unique and fun for it's rustic, earthy main characters instead of the usual vampire flash - is still going strong 6 books in. warning, though: there's no way to cram 5 books' worth of back-explanation in. if you're starting with this one, you'll miss out on a lot. they're each light, breezy reads, not as silly as chick-lit, not as porntacular as many paranormal-romance novels are; worth perusing in general.
    • 5/5
      This is my favorite book out of the Sookie books
    • 5/5
      Love Quin, love Eric, love Sookie!
    • 3/5
      It took me awhile to get into this 6th installment of Sookie Stackhouse series. I was mighty confused by the entrance of Hadley (I either waited too long between books and forgot about her or she just suddenly became a major part, not sure). It took me awhile to get used to the addition of MORE characters and for the story to get rolling on this one. But once it got going, I did enjoy the story line, much more than the 5th book. I still like the earlier books more but the series in entertaining enough to continue. Plus, it was nice not to have a dozen men after at once in this book, sort of refreshing. I could do without her detailed description of every outfit she and everyone around her wears, but I'm used to it by this point.
    • 4/5
      While I still loved this book... I was a little disappointed there seems to be a whole backstory that is somehow missed between the last book and this one.
    • 4/5
      Another installment in the Sookie series. It was an interesting read and storyline. There's something about these books that make me continue reading them, probably just to see what happens next in this world. I do love Eric and I love to see what happens with him.
    • 2/5
      Listening on audiobook.

      Quinn, like Alcide, doesn't really do it for me. He's more appealing than Alcide, but I still find I have to imagine him as a hot famous basketball player to hold my attention. I'm still not into the "man's man" kind of guys. I'm stoked Sookie is going to Nawlins with Bill and the demons. I know a lot of people don't like Bill, but I like him better than any of the shifters. There's something about him.

      I kinda liked the little mini-plot about the kid disappearing and Sookie saving the day. And I'm thrilled that Eric is seething mad and saying things like "she was mine and will be mine again." Anticipating good things to come.

      .....

      Having finished the book, I have to agree with people's assessments that it kind of felt like an interlude between major plots. My favourite things from this book were the queen (I was pleasantly surprised with her sudden back-story monologue and that her attraction to Hadley was more profound than originally thought) and Amelia. Vampire politics and intrigue were awesome too, and I was glad they finally went to New Orleans. Quinn is wearing really thin on me. He doesn't do it for me at all. I'm glad the Pelt thing is finally wrapped up.

      I thought they handled the Bill revelation really well -- Sookie was suitably devastated. And I loved, loved that scene near the end where she tells him that his love isn't going to magically fix everything. It made me love Sookie just that much more.

      I was, of course, disappointed there wasn't more Eric. I would totally still read the books if the only characters were Pam and Eric.

      I can't tell if I'm getting more used to Harris's style, or if the books are actually getting markedly better.

      I'm eagerly anticipating the summit in the next book.
    • 5/5
      Just as good as all the others. I especially liked Sookie's relationship with Quinn.
    • 5/5
      In this book we meet Quinn. Quinn is hot. He is one of my fav characters in this book. We get to see Sookie in New Orleans where she is cleaning out her dead cousin's apartment after her cousin is murdered. This is also where we meet a witch that will become one of Sookies best friends. Great book.
    • 5/5
      I absolutely loved this book and this series! I got involved with this series before True Blood became a show and I couldn't quit reading. I ended up getting all caught up and then had to wait each year for the next to come out until Harris finally reached the end of the series (I was devastated and wanted more Sookie Stackhouse in my life). It's been nearly 10 years since I read the first one and probably getting close to time for a re-read!
    • 4/5
      Definitely Dead
      4 Stars

      Sookie must travel to New Orleans at the Queen of Louisiana's behest to finalize her deceased cousin Hadley's estate. But someone doesn't want her arriving in one piece, and the suspects range from rogue weres to treacherous vampires to Sookie's former lover, Bill Compton. Can Sookie stay alive long enough to find out what's going on?

      Series note: Hadley's demise is recounted in the very short novella One Word Answer, but it is not necessary to read it to follow the events in this installment.

      In terms of the plot, there are, once again, several intertwining threads that raise the question of how one small yet snarky woman can get into so much trouble in such a short period of time. In addition to a group of newly turned weres who want to turn her into kibble, Sookie finds a severed corpse in her garden and a rabid vampire in a closet.

      With all of these goings on, it should be difficult for Sookie to even think of having a love life, but our intrepid herione has no problem in this department either. With Calvin, Alcide, Bill and Eric more or less out of the picture, Sookie's new beau is Quinn the huge and hunky tiger shifter. Only time will tell if he is her match made in heaven or hell.

      All in all, Sookie's adventures are a laugh-riot and should never be taken too seriously. Looking forward to the next one.
    • 5/5
      As always, I love Sookie. I also really like Quinn, and Amelia is a cool addition to the entourage. The continued evolution of Sookie's love life isn't tooooo soap operatic and makes sense in its elaborate drama.There are also so many subplots that carry through the entire series without ever getting lost or muddled. As some find closure new ones pop up without ever getting too confusing. But of course, what really makes me such a fan is that I just love Sookie as well as most of the other characters. Quinn, Eric, Amelia. Even the queen. Even the characters I don't actually like, I appreciate.
    • 4/5
      Not my favorite in the Sookie Stackhouse series. I have read a number of these already but unfortunately read this one out of order. It involves the death or murder of her cousin Hadley. Sookie must go to New Orleans to take care of her cousin's estate. While there she has to take care of some business with the Queen of LA. Who also happens to be Hadley's ex-lover. This book also has Sookie dating a new person, Quinn, a were-tiger. Was an ok read but again for me was not as enjoyable or as quick a read as some of the others.
    • 4/5
      Sookie's adventures in New Orleans, looking into the death (murder?) of her cousin Hadley allows Harris to introduce a ton of new characters. Sookie gets to visit a more cosmopolitan city and gets a new maybe-boyfriend with a super fun paranormal trait. I continue to enjoy this series and will keep reading.
    • 4/5
      Again, I love the audio books of this series. The reader has a fantastic voice for it and sounds like Anna Paquin. These books can be stand alone books but I'm enjoying listening to them in a row. This one didn't have as much action as some of the others but that was okay. I'm enjoying Sookie with Quinn and the fact that he's a tiger. As always, I recommend this series, especially as an audio book.
    • 4/5
      19-Dec: I begin yestreday and I'm on chapter 6, and that says something. I am so glad that Sookie removed Alced and Calvin from her mind. the weres community in Ms. Charlaine Harris world seems a bit twisted to me. the Vamps seems much normal in that way. I am dying to see the 3rd season of True Blood!
      13-Jan: I haven't read it in awhile, and I began and I am almost finishing it.

      Sookie Stackhouse goes to New Orleans to sort out the affairs of her cousin Hadley, who was murdered. Hadley had become a vampire and the romantic partner of Queen Sophie-Anne Leclerq, and upon her final death, left everything to Sookie. Meanwhile Sookie begins a tentative relationship with John Quinn, a were-tiger.

      When she arrives, she finds Hadley's apartment locked and in stasis under the spell of the talented and helpful young witch Amelia Broadway, Hadley's landlady. When the spell is removed, she and Sookie are attacked by a newly turned vampire that had been hidden in the hall closet. The vampire is subdued by supernatural police, and Sookie and Amelia are taken to the hospital. Eric and Bill come to visit Sookie, and at Eric's urging, Bill tells Sookie why he came to Bon Temps: Hadley had told the queen of Sookie's telepathic abilities, and the queen then sent Bill to Bon Temps to find Sookie and bring her into the Queen's services, seducing Sookie if necessary. Sookie is heartbroken and tells Bill to leave her alone.

      Sookie is called before Queen Sophie-Anne that night and finds the vampire queen has anxiety related to her recent political marriage to Peter Threadgill, the vampire king of Arkansas. The wedding is only a political gesture, but is very important for maintaining peace between the kingdoms. Sophie-Anne reveals that Hadley may have stolen a diamond bracelet from Sophie-Anne that was a present from the king. If Sophie-Anne doesn't have the bracelet back for a party in several days, Threadgill could call for divorce, and take down her kingdom, so she asks Sookie to find it.

      Meanwhile, Sookie and Amelia explore the mystery of the vampire in Hadley's closet. The witches cast a spell and learn that the vampire had been a Were named Jake Purifoy who was attacked by an unseen assailant. Hadley turned him into a vampire to save him. Afterwards, Quinn visits Sookie and they explore their relationship, but are then kidnapped by some Weres—the Pelt family—the parents and sister of Alcide's ex-girlfriend, who Sookie had killed in self-defense (in Dead to the World). The Pelts want revenge. Sookie tells them the truth of what happened and the Pelts stoically accept the outcome, swearing not to tell anyone if Sookie will keep the secret of their violence against her, which is against pack law. They also had sent the weres to attack Sookie and Quinn.

      At the ball being thrown in honor of the newly married King and Queen, Sookie finds enormous security forces. Sookie thinks she has averted a fight when she smuggles in the stolen bracelet and slips it onto Sophie-Anne's wrist without anyone noticing. But Threadgill starts his uprising anyway, and there is a violent battle. In the melee, Andre kills Peter Threadgill in order to save the Queen, with Sookie the only other witness.

      Sookie and a wounded Quinn go back to Hadley's, where they are soon joined by Bill, who apologizes to Sookie and tells her he is truly in love with her. Sookie turns him away, telling him to get out of her life and never come back. When Sookie goes back to New Orleans, Amelia accompanies her since she needs to hide from her coven due to having used forbidden magic to accidentally turn her lover, Bob, into a cat.
    • 5/5
      I really enjoyed reading this book as I have the others. There were many twists and turns I wasn't expecting. I'm so glad though that Sookie appears to have finally landed herself a decent boyfriend and he's a Bengal weretiger!
    • 2/5
      I got to the end of this one and just wanted to say, "Eh." Having not read the short story that apparently fills the lacuna between the last book and this one, I had to scramble to find my footing right at the beginning (e.g., who the heck is cousin Hadley??) and the story just didn't suck me in even after I fitted the missing pieces into place. There are a few things I just don't "get" ...

      *mild spoilers*

      1. The Queen's marriage. The traditions of it seem fraught with possibilities for inadvertently starting a war, she and her husband clearly don't love or trust each other, and she had to send away her beloved. If there's an upside to the union, I never figured it out. So why, exactly, did the Queen get married?

      2. Quinn. I just don't get him as a character. Sookie's attraction to him seems to be purely physical (that's really all she talks about, musclesmusclesmuscles) but for some reason she wants a relationship with him, and I guess he wants the same thing, but I have no real idea why. So, eh.

      3. Speaking of Sookie Quinn... least sexy sex scene ever. Actually, I'm not sure dry humping counts as a sex scene, but apparently it's just as satisfying as the real thing, if Charlaine Harris is to be believed. I miss Eric.

      And finally, there were just little bothersome details that seemed to conflict and weren't ever really resolved; Sookie eventually figures out who did what, but sometimes I was still unsure why, and the mild attempts at explaining motivations were pretty unsatisfying to me.

      All of that said, I still gave this book two stars because parts of it were still creative and enjoyable. The witches were fun to meet, and the mystery of what happens to Quinn's underling had a great and surprising solution.
    • 3/5
      This is the third of this series I've read. I read #1 and #4 well before seeing True Blood. Now that I'm all caught up on the TV show, I thought I'd see how they compare. My first impression, when I first started watching the show, is that it was much more serious in tone than the books. However, I feel that the show has gotten a bit sillier as it's gone on, and now they're much more evenly matched.
      Reading this, there was a weird mix of spoilers, things that happened differently in the show, and things that already happened - the show isn't following the books religiously. However, I do feel that it's captured the spirit if the writing.
      These aren't Great Books - but I did very much enjoy reading this. It's fun, light paranormal romance.
    • 3/5
      Of all the books in this series, this has to be one of the ones that I didn't take to...

      Call me a prude, but I didn't like her choice of "lovers" in this episode, she began to seem a bit "cheap" to me.

      Quinn, the weretiger ia a bit obnoxious and "macho" for my taste.... In my opinion...Sookie is better off with one of the vampires.
    • 4/5
      In this Sookie Stackhouse novel, Sookie is now with Quinn, the weretiger. She goes to New Orleans to clean out her cousin Hadley's apartment, and quickly becomes the focus of several attacks. As usual there are two seperate mysteries, one regarding Sookie herself and another one involving Hadley's apartment. There is a very painful moment where Sookie finds out that Bill was sent to Bon Temps to begin a relationship with her so that she could join the Queens retinue. Sookie fans will be glad to finally see her in a relationship with someone who understands the kinds of problems involved in being supernatural and someone who genuinely seems to like her. She is also finally learning to take it slow. Can't wait to find out what happens in the next novel.
    • 4/5
      The saga continues and Sookie is summoned to New Orleans by the (Vampire) Queen of Lousiana. Yes, it sounds stupid. That is because it is!!! A vampire war breaks out and Sookie's dating a were-tiger. For Sookie fans, this book is a must read and you won't want to put it down!My rating: ★ ★ ★ ★
    • 4/5
      Sookie ends up eventually in New Orleans, to clear up after her cousin's death, her cousin who was the paramour of the local vampire queen. Eric forces Bill to admit why he had returned to Bon Temps and meanwhile someone is apparently hunting her. Quinn and Sookie start dating, which has mixed resultsLook Sookie, after a while you have to stop mourning the normal you can never have back and you start playing with the deck of cards you've been dealt and try to make the best of it, occasionally you can look back and mourn the possibilities, but the past is a place you can't fix, only the present. There are a lot of characters to keep track of and many of them seem quite similar.It's not bad but I had moments where I wanted to lecture Sookie about just facing up to life as it is. The discovery of what was going on and the battle at the end went very quickly and seemed to be resolved quite quickly, I'm curious about what's going to happen next but don't feel an urgent need to read it.
    • 3/5
      This book was ok...I like the Sookie books but it's hard for me to get into them. But I'm doing it!

      I did like Sookie and Quinn =)
    • 4/5
      I followed up the Twilight series with the Sookie Stackhouse series. A good, soft transition into more paranormal romance. Too much hype for Charlaine Harris's books because of the HBO series than deserved. The HBO series is fine; the books are fine, but the plot/mystery of each book is simple. Very quick read -- straightforward plot with friendly characters that are easy to like. If you enjoy paranormal, you will probably enjoy this series, but there truly are more gripping, non-plain vanilla paranormal series out there (both in terms of adult scenes and dynamic realtionships between various beings in the paranormal realm). My 4-star rating is based on my thoughts just after reading, but would probably garner only 3-stars after having read Alexancer Ivy, Jacqueline Frank and Gena Showalter. I stopped reading this series after the 9th book...
    • 4/5
      One of the best of the series.
    • 3/5
      Sookie Stackhouse books should not be confused with the True Blood series. Characters are from the book and the setting is from the book, but that is about it. Harris has created a world of vampires and fairies, weres and things that go bump in the night. As a book series it is fun and rich with details. There are some of the books that worked better than others. I enjoyed the plots and the way the characters developed in the novels much more than the show and eventually stopped watching. It was too confusing keep two different plot lines going for the same characters. I highly recommend people to read the series. As i wrote before some of the novels are great and some are just so so. I am not particularly fond of the last book because it seem so rush and out of character. Over great series and a reread.
    • 3/5
      it was just okay for me. it seemed like a bit all over the place in the beginning, and it ended abruptly. still enjoyable, mostly cause of the characters though. will definitely read the next one to see what happens.
    • 4/5
      As action-packed and complicated as Dead as a Doornail, but much more focused. I was confused a bit by the 'story within a story' of Sookie's cousin's death and kept wracking my brain to see if I should know what they were talking about from an earlier book, which was distracting. But I sure like Quinn!
    • 3/5
      For some reason it took me a long time to read this book. It should've been a fast read, but I didn't make the time. I think this is also why I just liked it. I kept coming back to it, so sometimes the story was a little confusing. I'm definitely still continuing with the series though.