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From Dead to Worse

by Charlaine Harris

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Series: Southern Vampire Mysteries (8)

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I enjoyed this installment of the series more than I expected! I'm still not into the whole vampire genre, but I enjoyed this one, I think, because of "meeting" more of Sookie's family in this story, especially the kid cousin at the end of the book.

The narrator of this audiobook did a nice job, too. ( )
  dukefan86 | May 29, 2013 |
Rating: 3.75* of five

The Publisher Says: After the natural disaster of Hurricane Katrina and the manmade explosion at the vampire summit, everyone human and otherwise is stressed, including Louisiana cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse, who is trying to cope with the fact that her boyfriend Quinn has gone missing.

It's clear that things are changing whether the weres and vamps of her corner of Louisiana like it or not. And Sookie, Friend to the Pack and blood-bonded to Eric Northman, leader of the local vampire community is caught up in the changes.

In the ensuing battles, Sookie faces danger, death, and once more, betrayal by someone she loves. And when the fur has finished flying and the cold blood finished flowing, her world will be forever altered.

My Review: After being sorely, sorely disappointed in book 7 of the series, All Together Dead, this was a refreshing, unsaggy unbaggy pointed read. It feels so good to be in Bon Temps again, and to have Sookie acting in her accustomed tartly self-possessed way. She's facing huge changes to the supernatural universe, of course, after the events of the last book, but she's doing so with a sense of purpose...which is what the last book lacked.

Among my most favoritest moments of all time in the series is the un-catting of Bob. 'Nuf sed.

Felipe de Castro, the new King of Louisiana, is memorably vile, and leaves you eager to see how Eric and Sookie will cope with his bland, banal evilness. His catspaw Victor Madden...well, nothing too bad can happen to someone like that, undead or not.

But the shocker of this book, the big baddie, is so horrible that I was compelled to put the book down and breathe deeply for a minute or two. Just, well, it's as bad as anything in the series. For sure and certain.

Better than I'd ever thought to hope, after last outing.


This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. ( )
1 vote richardderus | May 6, 2013 |
Every were and vampire Sookie gets around winds up getting her beaten, shot, staked, raped, and generally treated like hell. Alsead was a self centered ass, Quinn was a self centered ass (well, centered on his whack mom and can't find five minutes to call for WEEKS after Rhodes? And then hides in the woods watching while Sookie is put in a situation where he HAS to know that she is set up _in her own home_ to be slaughtered?????) Bill feels terribly guilty for his horrible betrayal of Sookie, and Eric, well, Eric is still just self-centered Eric The Politician.

I think she should wind up with Sam! He is warm, loving, caring, (did I mention Warm?? As in his whole body is warm ... not a cold, dead body! Hate to be nasty, but I couldn't imagine doing the whoopee with an icicle! Eww! Does anyone ever Think of that when they get all hot and bothered about vampire whoopee? ROFL)

I'm rooting for Sam . . . hey, I used to handle dead bodies for a living. Sleeping with one? Hooooo boy! NOT a nice thing to consider! Dead flesh is NOT pleasant, kids and kiddies! And speaking of kids and kiddies - Sam can give her all the things that she has REALLY always wanted - a real life. Family, children, a real home, a life in the SUN. Remember, no matter what, Sookie is a true child of the Sun, her fairy blood assures that. And anyone who actually reads the books KNOWS that. She has mentioned, time after time, how much she loves the sun, how much she loves children and how she would love to have children. Certainly can't do that with a vampire! And Sam loves her for HER, not for what she can do for him, how much status she give them, nothing but the fact that he adores her for who she is - Sookie, the kind, gentle, honest, tough, independent, Southern barmaid.

Rereading the whole series now, and really love Sookie, and since I listen to Audible, I can't tell you how much I love Johanna. She IS Sookie Stackhouse. ( )
  Leiahc | May 4, 2013 |
vampires,Sookie,Amazon received
  romsfuulynn | Apr 28, 2013 |
I must say I'm still intrigued by the multiple story lines that continue to weave through this series. It's my guilty pleasure, and I will be getting the next one soon since she ended it with a little gift of a surprise. ( )
  mawls | Apr 4, 2013 |
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Though she can’t walk or see quite as well as she used to, my mother, Jean Harris, remains the most complete person I have ever met. She’s been the bulwark of my existence, the foundation I was built on, and the best mother a woman could have.
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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0441017010, Mass Market Paperback)


New in the “addicting” New York Times bestselling series featuring Sookie Stackhouse.

After the natural disaster of Hurricane Katrina and the manmade explosion at the vampire summit, everyone—human and otherwise—is stressed, including Louisiana cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse, who is trying to cope with the fact that her boyfriend, Quinn, has gone missing.

It’s clear that things are changing—whether the weres and vamps of her corner of Louisiana like it or not. And Sookie—Friend to the Pack and blood-bonded to Eric Northman, leader of the local vampire community—is caught up in the changes.

In the ensuing battles, Sookie faces danger, death, and once more, betrayal by someone she loves. And when the fur has finished flying and the cold blood finished flowing, her world will be forever altered.

And with HBO's launching of an all-new show, True Blood, based on the Southern Vampire novels, the demand for Charlaine Harris and Sookie Stackhouse is bigger than ever.

Watch a QuickTime trailer for the HBO original series True Blood.

(retrieved from Amazon Thu, 14 Feb 2013 13:47:35 -0500)

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After Hurricane Katrina and the manmade explosion at the vampire summit in New Orleans, Sookie Stackhouse faces danger, death, and, once again, betrayal by someone she loves.

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