Altogether Dead by Charlaine Harris
Review by Louise
Reaching book N0 7 in the Sookie Stackhouse novels, I was beginning to think I had O.D’d a bit on these as I had read one after the other without a break reading any other books. There are a number of different designs to this series of books but my favourite are the ones i have with the front showing Sookie's lips and nose, you never see her eyes until the last book of the season I've noticed. Maybe, something poignant is revealed in the last book??!! Who knows until i get there! The first ten chapters or so personally were hard work for me, there were a lot of names and new characters to remember as Sookie went to a Vampire convention. A lot of groundwork was being laid to get to know these characters and I felt like it was a bit monotonous and slow. The information and building of the story kind of went in a blurr for me. A lot of emphasis was spent on the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina too which I think was the Authors way of paying homage to the victims of this natural disaster. But after Chapter 11 all was forgiven when the book was changed into a supernatural disaster movie with intrigue, excitement, confusion and “will they – won’t they” scenarios! Once again, the jury is still out on Eric and Sookie, even though new man Quinn is a strong contender. It would have been one of the best books in the series yet if the first half was cut out and the last half was all there was, but you couldn’t have had one without the other. To sum up, if you can battle through the slow parts then the climax is well worth it!Published
20/10/2011
Publisher
Gollancz
ISBN
9780575117082
http://www.waterstones.com/waterstonesweb/products/charlaine+harris/all+together+dead/8612874/
Reaching book N0 7 in the Sookie Stackhouse novels, I was beginning to think I had O.D’d a bit on these as I had read one after the other without a break reading any other books. There are a number of different designs to this series of books but my favourite are the ones i have with the front showing Sookie's lips and nose, you never see her eyes until the last book of the season I've noticed. Maybe, something poignant is revealed in the last book??!! Who knows until i get there! The first ten chapters or so personally were hard work for me, there were a lot of names and new characters to remember as Sookie went to a Vampire convention. A lot of groundwork was being laid to get to know these characters and I felt like it was a bit monotonous and slow. The information and building of the story kind of went in a blurr for me. A lot of emphasis was spent on the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina too which I think was the Authors way of paying homage to the victims of this natural disaster. But after Chapter 11 all was forgiven when the book was changed into a supernatural disaster movie with intrigue, excitement, confusion and “will they – won’t they” scenarios! Once again, the jury is still out on Eric and Sookie, even though new man Quinn is a strong contender. It would have been one of the best books in the series yet if the first half was cut out and the last half was all there was, but you couldn’t have had one without the other. To sum up, if you can battle through the slow parts then the climax is well worth it!Published
20/10/2011
Publisher
Gollancz
ISBN
9780575117082
http://www.waterstones.com/waterstonesweb/products/charlaine+harris/all+together+dead/8612874/