Dead and Gone (Sookie Stackhouse, #9)

by Charlaine Harris

Now it's the turn of the weres and shifters to follow the lead of the undead and reveal their existence to the ordinary world.

Sookie Stackhouse already knows about them, of course - her brother turns into a panther at the full moon, she's friend to the local Were pack and Sam, her boss at Merlotte's bar, is a shifter.

At first the great Were revelation seems to go well - then the horribly mutilated body of a were-panther is found outside Merlotte's. Though Sookie never cared that much for the victim, no one deserves such a horrible death, so she agrees to use her telepathic talent to track down the murderer.

But what Sookie doesn't realise is that there is a far greater danger than this killer threatening Bon Temps: a race of unhuman beings, older, more powerful and far more secretive than the vampires or the werewolves is preparing for war ...

• ISBN10: 0575085525
• ISBN13: 9780575085527
• Publish Date: 24 June 2010 (first published 22 April 2009)
• Publish Status: Out of Print
• Out of Print: 29 March 2021
• Publish Country: GB
• Imprint: Gollancz
• Format: Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
• Pages: 320
• Language: English

Reviews

[celinenyx]

Poor Sookie. In Dead and Gone she gets pulled into fae politics because of her allegiance to her great-grandfather, and her enemies are very powerful. Eric is still having trouble with the Louisiana take-over, and mostly Bill is just being Bill. Starting this book the Sookie Stackhouse is taking a bit of a different direction I think, with really bad things happening to Sookie. I think the supernatural world is just getting a bit too much for her.

I thought the book was good, but I'm just not feeling the same about these books as I did in the beginning. Sometimes I feel like the writer just doesn't have her heart into these books anymore and it's all about publishing more books.

[Quirky Cat]

Well written and witty, my only major complaint was that it seemed to go by too quickly and that the plots started didn't really feel fully resolved at the end. I wish I had the next one on me, guess I'm going to have to go to the bookstore! (or amazon).

[liz089]

Very exciting !!

[ibeforem]

A lot happens in this book. A lot. And it seems like every character that’s ever made an appearance in the series shows up. I think that in the end, too much happens, and the stuff that’s important isn’t fully developed. I was a little surprised at what happens to some of the characters at the end of the book, but I’m glad that Harris has the guts to kill off major characters, not just the minor ones. This isn’t the best book in the series, and it’s full of holes, but it’s still candy for my supe-loving brain.

[inlibrisveritas]

As usual Harris has delivered a wonderful book, and what made it even better...Eric. Overall I enjoyed it, the action is mostly at the end but the fact that Eric finally came around to admitting it made up for it.

[Terri M. LeBlanc]

Which vampire really loves Sookie?