Dead Ever After (Sookie Stackhouse, #13)

by Charlaine Harris

THE FINAL NOVEL IN THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING SOOKIE STACKHOUSE SERIES—the inspiration for the HBO® original series True Blood.

When a shocking murder rocks the small town of Bon Temps, Louisiana, psychic cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse learns that she has more than one enemy waiting to get vengeance for the past. Beacuse nothing is ever clear-cut in Bon Temps. What passes for truth is only a convenient lie. What passes for justice is more spilled blood. And what passes for love is never enough...

• ISBN10: 0425256391
• ISBN13: 9780425256398
• Publish Date: 25 March 2014 (first published 1 May 2013)
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: US
• Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
• Imprint: Ace Books
• Format: Paperback (US Mass Market)
• Pages: 368
• Language: English
• URL: https://penguinrandomhouse.com/books/isbn/9780425256398

Reviews

[shannonmiz]

I just can't even. I feel like I need to write something because this was such an awful mess. I loved, nay, was addicted to these books for many years. The last several have been less than stellar. But I figured I would keep reading anyway, hoping that for the last one the author would pull out all the stops, knowing it was the end. But alas, I was mistaken.

I had stayed far away from any spoilers, but I had a hunch of what would happen, and the outcome was less than pleasing. As it turns out, I was right. But more than the ending, the whole book was just a mess. The characters felt like shells of their former selves, or in some cases, not even that. Some characters were changed beyond recognition, and some flat out made no sense being in the book at all.

Basically, I am just disappointed. I had hoped that these books would get a proper send off, but instead I am just feeling like I wasted a lot of time and money becoming invested in this series.

[Linda]

This and other reviews can also be found on my blog (un)Conventional Bookviews.


Sookie once more found herself in the middle of an intriguing mystery, and at the same time, she had to deal with Sam’s withdrawal after she had brought him back to life. Dead Ever After is far from dead, though, it is more as if even some whom Sookie (and the readers) thought were dead weren’t all that dead anyway. And the surprising thing was that I was actually surprised by who it was that was after Sookie this time around!