All Together Dead

Sookie Stackhouse Southern Vampire Mystery #7

By: Charlaine Harris

Narrated by: Johanna Parker

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.Listen to more titles in the Sookie Stackhouse series.©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)

Explosive Summit

Katrina has devastated New Orleans, the Queen of Louisiana is going to the large vampire summit in a weakened financial state and she is being charged with the death of her husband the King of Arkansas. Sookie agreed to go to the summit with the Queen and quickly learns of a deadly plot that is being hatched around her and she is trying to unravel the knot of crazy before those she cares for meet their final death.
Johanna Parker still rocks the story, she gives her amazing inflection and understands the characters on a beautiful level!

Felt As Good as Books One and Two!

If you could sum up All Together Dead in three words, what would they be?

Exciting, Disastrous, Fulfilling.

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

Johanna Parker is fabulous. She balances all the voices so well. I wouldn't be able to picture any other voice for Sookie than Johanna's.

Love the narrator!

So good. I truly enjoy the series and couldn’t stop listening. Absolute gem! Very entertaining and sweet.

Best yet

I love all the Sookie Stackhouse series but this is my favorite book with all the action, adventure and insight into Sookie's world including her men. I only listen to the series through audible.com because the narrator is so good I can't imagine just reading any of the series instead of listening.

Good Series

I really enjoyed these books. I listen to this series while I work. They are easy to listen to and entertaining enough to help me through a repetitive job. I would recommend and listened to the whole series.

Wedding fever has hit Bon Temps

Wedding fever has hit Bon Temps, Louisiana, and Jason Stackhouse finally gets hitched when were-panther Crystal Norris discovers she is pregnant again. Jason asks his sister Sookie to attend. Quinn the were-tiger, accompanies Sookie, enhancing her status. This wedding is unique since Sookie must vouch for Jason as his closest living relative and agree to take the penalty if Jason does wrong.

Telepath Sookie Stackhouse is dating one of the last were-tigers. She knows there is more about Quinn that she needs to learn; what makes him the legend about which other shapeshifters whisper? Sookie is also hosting witch Amelia who fled New Orleans after transforming her boyfriend Bob into a cat, since she would owe a penalty to the witch community. However, Amelia needs help finding the spell to turn the cat back into her boyfriend, but since she cannot risk contact, Bob’s fate is uncertain.

Sookie must leave Amelia in Louisiana to attend the vampire summit in Rhodes. Louisiana vampire Queen Sophie-Anne has requested that Sookie accompany her and read the minds of any humans she deals with to detect deceit or malice. The Queen’s position has declined following hurricane Katrina and so has her wealth. While the Queen and other vampires fled New Orleans, they have yet to return. Even the human population has offered assistance, since it will bring tourism back to the city. Queen Sophie-Anne will seek support in the rebuilding efforts while at the summit.

Several months ago at a reception celebrating the nuptials of the Queen of Louisiana and the King of Arkansas, betrayals and hidden agendas bring about an attempt on the Queen’s life and the murder of the King. In the Queen’s defense, her personal bodyguard killed the King, instigating a brawl among all vampires present. At the summit, Queen Sophie-Anne will go on trial for murder if she cannot negotiate a settlement.

The summit is all about power struggles within kingdoms and among rivals, between vampires and humans. Even Sookie becomes embroiled, so when the Queen’s bodyguard demands that her loyalty be fortified, Sookie and Eric must exchange blood, hence becoming blood bonded. When Sookie encounters Texan Barry Bellboy, the only other telepath she knows, they compare experiences and realize that each person has their own tolerance for what they can live with and what they consider to be way outside the lines. This inner turmoil helps to define each of them.

The summit is full of mysterious goings on. Guards from another dimension protect the King of Kentucky, but no one can discern why. Sookie discovers a bomb outside the Queen’s suite, but who placed it there? What do the extra suitcases and caskets hold, since no one claims them? Rumors fly about the Church of the Sun.

This seventh entry into the unique world of Sookie Stackhouse brings many magical creatures together at increasingly complex and dangerous events. Very entertaining and definitely recommended.

Enjoyable

Would you listen to All Together Dead again? Why?

yes, its a good story, although I wish Stookie was portrayed more intelligently but I do like her story

Awsome

This book had so much. Aliens, telepaths, wereanimals, parties, bombs, so much. Sookie goes with the queen to help her and all hell breaks loose. So much.

Paranormal House Party

Picked this one outside my usual TBR lottery because we’re finally getting around to watching TrueBlood. While it’s not my favorite so far, I love the visuals Charlaine Harris provides, though the level of detail is just a bit more than I care for. We ended up dumping the TV series after the first season because of the gore--just nasty (but the sex was good). The meat of this one is a kind of contemporary “house party” tale at the vampire summit. Once I got the TV Sookie out of my head, I enjoyed the listen more. Not that the TV Sookie was bad, I just like the audiobook better. I had the same experience with the Harry Potter books on audio (SO much better than the movies). Anyway, poor Sookie just seems to get deeper into the crap. Love Quinn, hope that works out. Of course, I love Eric too, and feel kinda sorry for Bill…

The names

She doesn’t know their names. Catfish’s last name is Hennessy but she calls him catfish hunter. She calls Sophie Ann LeClerque, LeClare. I don’t understand.