Dead and Gone: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel (Sookie Stackhouse, #9)

by Charlaine Harris

The werewolves and shifters come out of the closet and throw the small town of Bon Temps into a tailspin in the ninth novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling Sookie Stackhouse series—the inspiration for the HBO® original series True Blood.

Except for cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse, folks in Bon Temps, Louisiana, knew little about vamps—and nothing about Weres. Until now. The Weres and shifters have finally revealed their existence to the ordinary world, and the backlash may have claimed the life of someone Sookie knew. But her determination to find out who is responsible for the murder is put aside in the face of a far greater danger. A race of unhuman beings—older, more powerful, and more secretive than vampires or werewolves—is preparing for war. And Sookie will find herself an all-too-human pawn in their battle...

• ISBN10: 0441018513
• ISBN13: 9780441018512
• Publish Date: 6 April 2010 (first published 22 April 2009)
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: US
• Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
• Imprint: Ace Books
• Format: Paperback (US Mass Market)
• Pages: 320
• Language: English
• URL: https://penguinrandomhouse.com/books/isbn/9780441018512

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?