Dead and Gone (Sookie Stackhouse, Book 9) Summary and Reviews

Dead and Gone (Sookie Stackhouse, Book 9)
by Charlaine Harris

Dead and Gone (Sookie Stackhouse, Book 9)
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Author: Charlaine Harris
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2009-05-05
ISBN: 0441017150
Number of pages: 312
Publisher: Ace Hardcover
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  • ISBN13: 9780441017157
  • Condition: New
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Book Reviews of Dead and Gone (Sookie Stackhouse, Book 9)

Book Review: Sookie gets darker
Summary: 4 Stars

This is the ninth book in Charlaine Harris' long running Sookie Stackhouse/Southern Vampire series, a series that continues to be one of the most original of the genre avoiding many of the typical cliches.

The plot is relatively simple - the weres have come out to the general public and on the night of the announcement a were is murdered in the parking lot outside Merlottes bar. Sookie must use all her abilities and connections to uncover the killer or killers and protect herself from a new and deadly enemy connected to her fairy great great grandfather. The plot is much stronger than that of the last book in the series which felt to me a bit like a filler book tying off old loose threads, but I'm not entirely happy with what happened to certain characters, Claudine in partciular.

Sookie has always been quite a positive, sunny and upbeat character in the books up to this, but time and the events of the past seem to be knocking this out of her. Sookie seems a pale shadow of her Pollyanna like former self but in light of what has happend to her in previous books and in this book it does make sense.

Overall this is a good enough read. Charlaine Harris is a competent writer and this book is not bad, but theres a sense of darkness (or despair or something I can't really quite put my finger on) about this book that left me slightly saddened in the end with its not so happily ever after.

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