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    The Complete Sookie Stackhouse Stories
    The Complete Sookie Stackhouse Stories
    The Complete Sookie Stackhouse Stories
    Audiobook11 hours

    The Complete Sookie Stackhouse Stories

    Written by Charlaine Harris

    Narrated by Johanna Parker and Brian Hutchison

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    A definitive new collection featuring all of the previously published Sookie Stackhouse stories, along with a new introduction from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the series. Return to Bon Temps, Louisiana, with these reader favorites featuring spunky telepathic waitress Sookie Stackhouse and her paranormal friends: "Fairy Dust"-from Powers of Detection and A Touch of Dead "One Word Answer"-from Bite and A Touch of Dead "Dracula Night"-from Many Bloody Returns and A Touch of Dead "Lucky"-from Unusual Suspects and A Touch of Dead "Gift Wrap"-from Wolfsbane and Mistletoe and A Touch of Dead "Two Blondes"-from Death's Excellent Vacation "If I Had a Hammer"-from Home Improvement: Undead Edition "Small Town Wedding"-from The Sookie Stackhouse Companion "Playing Possum"-from An Apple for the Creature "In the Blue Hereafter"-from Games Creatures Play
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateNov 21, 2017
    ISBN9781501972287
    The Complete Sookie Stackhouse Stories
    Author

    Charlaine Harris

    Charlaine Harris is a New York Times bestselling author for both her Sookie Stackhouse fantasy/mystery series and her Aurora Teagarden Mystery series, now a series of movies on the Hallmark Movies Channel. She has lived in the South her entire life. Visit her on the Web at charlaineharris.com and facebook.com/CharlaineHarris.

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    • 5/5
      I absolutely loved this book and this series! I got involved with this series before True Blood became a show and I couldn't quit reading. I ended up getting all caught up and then had to wait each year for the next to come out until Harris finally reached the end of the series (I was devastated and wanted more Sookie Stackhouse in my life). It's been nearly 10 years since I read the first one and probably getting close to time for a re-read!
    • 3/5
      An incredibly fast read, read it in an afternoon. I liked that it answered some questions that I had with vagueness or discrepancy in the actual novels. I don't feel like the stories were written as well as the actual series but they were still entertaining.
    • 5/5
      Who doesn't love a Sookie Stackhouse story? Fun little book that ties several of the books together or tells us things that happened between books. We learn more about Claude and Claudine, the fairies. Niall her grandfather comes for a Christmas visit at the end of the book. We also see Dracula in one of the short stories.
    • 4/5
      Definitely wish I had read this before the book where the death of Sookie's cousin Hadley comes into play. The short story that explains who Hadley is really should have been part of the series. The rest of these stories, though, are pretty cute and mostly stand-alone. There's a little more Eric, a little more about the fairies Claudine and Claude, and a frankly odd but adorable little Christmas piece at the end that had me feeling Christmas cheer in April. Definitely worth a read -- though maybe not a purchase, since the stories are quite short and there are only a handful of them.
    • 5/5
      Love my Sookie, the stories tie together many of the plots from the main books.
    • 2/5
      I've really enjoyed the series, but these short stories were disappointing.
    • 4/5
      This book is a compilation of five (very) short stories...one of which I had read in the "Many Bloody Returns" anthology. I liked the stories, they were not overly violent and some even had a "Happy Ending".

      The stories are:
      "Fairy Dust" Featuring Claude & Claudine & the murder of their triplet Claudette.

      "Dracula Night" Count Dracula has made an appearance at the celebration of his birthday and demands Sookie as his dinner.

      "Word Answer" We learn about the murder/death of Sookie's cousin Hadley, the whys of it, and the resolution of the crime.

      "Lucky" Sookie & Amanda investigate the break in of a local insurance office and discover that "luck" has run out
      My favorite "Giftwrap"finds Sookie alone on Christmas eve...out on a walk she stumbles upon an injured Were whom she brings home and cares for.



    • 3/5
      This is a very cute collection of all of the Sookie Stackhouse short stories that were parts of other collections. It's a quick read and most of the stories are pretty funny.
    • 3/5
      Five short Sookie Stackhouse stories.

      The story "One Word Answer" helped fill in some gaps between a couple of the Sookie books.
    • 3/5
      "Fairy Dust" and "One Word Answer" were my favourite stories.
    • 3/5
      Another fun read. If you haven't read any Sookie Stackhouse before, this isn't a great introduction. Harris relies on the books for the world setting, but does fill in enough details to keep the chronology within the series correct.

      “Fairy Dust” is after the events in "Dead to the World" & is pretty good. It's a murder mystery with Claudine & Claude in it.

      “Dracula Night” happens before "Dead as a Doornail" & was probably my least favorite story of the bunch. It takes place mostly in Fangtasia with Eric & Pam. I just can't see Eric quite that far out there.

      “One Word Answer” takes place after "Dead as a Doornail" & fills in more about Hadley, although the story takes place in Sookie's yard. I enjoyed it.

      “Lucky” happens after "All Together Dead" & was another mystery that was fun, but I like Amelia.

      “Gift Wrap” happens before "Dead and Gone" & might be my favorite. It's quite a bit different than most of the stories.
    • 5/5
      i already read the first eight books of Sookie Stackhouse. And to read this stories was quite refreshing. Help me to understand some plots that were out from the books and the last story is a nice continuation of the eight book. I did not read the last book yet but I love this one. Feels good to see that finally Sookie have some happiness in a very special way.
      Highly recommended to all the fans of Sookie.
    • 2/5
      The stories were dull. The characters were flat. I now have zero interest in reading any more books in the Sookie Stackhouse series. Thank goodness I have HBO's TrueBlood to fall back on. Let's just forget this ever happened.
    • 2/5
      If you haven't read the books, like I haven't read the books that accompany this collection of short stories, certain things aren't going to make sense. This is a collection of stories meant to accompany the Sookie Stackhouse books. It's not a new volume. That being said, if you liked the other Sookie Stackhouse books, you'll probably be a fan of these too.
    • 3/5
      The short stories in A Touch of Dead would be okay as stand-alone stories set in the world of Sookie Stackhouse, but I just can't get past my irritation that it's NOTICEABLE that you've missed something if you don't know about these stories and only read the novels. Harris acknowledges this in the introduction to this collection, so maybe she realizes it's annoying.

      I read some of these stories earlier, when I first noticed the gaps, and I had to hunt each one down online since I didn't want to buy an unrelated anthology just for one story; at least they're all collected in one book now.

      The stories are good in that junk-food-reading way. I've started to notice Harris's writing tics more -- "Fairy Dust" serves as an introduction to Claude, who plays a large role in later Stackhouse books, and he's described as "surprised" four different times in the short story, which kind of cracked me up. Is he new?

      I'm sure "Lucky" is not one of the crowd favorites, because it's pretty goofy, but I liked it a lot. It's cute, a little Sookie-style detective story.

      "Gift Wrap" is the only story I really didn't like. It's creepy! Sookie acts creepy, acknowledges it, and keeps on creepin'. The wrap-up is even creepier! Maybe I'm a Puritan at the core. OR MAYBE IT'S JUST CREEPY.
    • 4/5
      I wish I had found some of these sooner, especially "One Word Answer," but they were fun even read out of order. None of them were all that profound, but they mostly featured the bits I like best about the series - clever worldbuilding and small-town politics. Definitely worth a read for fans, although they'd probably be totally baffling to people who'd never picked up the series.
    • 2/5
      This is a collection of Sookie Stackhouse short stories. They all star her, unlike some of the short stories that feature Dahlia (a vampire) or random other dimensional beings or whatever they heck they were.They're mostly kind of short and light, easy reads. It's not a very lengthy book.I read them all in order in between the books, so I can't remember the earlier ones so much as I remember the last one. Which is just some really messed up story!! Sookie gets a prostitute for Christmas.Given that she doesn't _seem_ the sort to do one night stands before this. At least not intentionally. It seems really out of character. And by the end of the story, just downright creepy.But, hey, if you need to know everything about every minute of Sookie's life, then I guess you'd better read these. Sometimes the action or the characters feature in the later books, so they're not always entirely unrelated.But that last story is messed up.
    • 4/5
      "Fairy Dust"Taking place right after Dead to the World, Sookie is hired to discover who is the kiler of Claudette, the triplet of Claudine and Claude (all fairies). The story is short and to the point, and the only thing it adds to the Sookie storyline is the introduction of Claude, who makes later appearances in the novels. I wouldn't consider it an essential read."Dracula Night"This short story takes place after "Fairy Dust" and before Dead as a Doornail. Eric, who is celebrating the day of Dracula's birth, is hoping that Vlad the Impaler will pay him a visit at Fangtasia. Sookie, the only human invited to the shindig, predictably lands in a spot of trouble. Eric's pretty cute in this one, but this, too, isn't essential to the main storyline."One Word Answer"Sookie's long-lost cousin, Hadley, is dead and has left her everything she owned. But there's more to Hadley than Sookie knows; Hadley, in fact, had become a vampire and a favorite of the Queen of Louisiana before her demise. Sookie has to discover for herself just how Hadley met her end. This story takes place before "Definitely Dead," and I would recommend reading it before starting that book. You can catch what's going on in "Definitely Dead" without this short story, but it makes things much easier to understand if you read this one first."Lucky"This story takes place after All Together Dead. Amelia and Sookie discover that one of the local insurance agents (the one who insured Sookie; this character was introduced a few books ago) is using too many spells to protect his business. The result is that all of the other insurance agents in the area are very unlucky and their businesses are failing. Although a nice little aside story, this doesn't really add anything to the essential storyline."Gift Wrap"After From Dead to Worse, Sookie finds herself alone on Christmas Eve. But she's not alone for long - she finds an injured Were in the woods, and she takes him back to her house, which later involves a one-night stand. Her great-grandfather then comes to spend Christmas with her. Everything looks rather heart-warming until the last few paragraphs, which have a creepy feel to them (at least, in my opinion). Once again, I don't think this story is an essential read.
    • 3/5
      I wasn't sure at first, but I had read all of this as they appeared in various anthologies. Nothing new here, move along!
    • 4/5
      These are great Sookie Stackhouse stories to tide me over until I get my copy of the her new novel, Deadlocked. My favorite characters are here: Bubba, Amelia Broadway, the fairies and Pam. I so wish the True Blood TV series had decided to keep in some of Sookie's humor. Her sarcastic wit is a major attribute that makes the series so enjoyable.
    • 4/5
      A fine,light-reading collection about Sookie Stackhouse and her involvement with supernatural creatures. Charlaine Harris says in her introduction that she had a good time writing these stories and it shows. She is also kind enough to explain where the stories fit in the Southern Vampire chronology.
    • 4/5
      This included every Sookie Stackhouse story to date up until October of 2009. It makes for a slim volume, since these really are short stories, none longer than about 8,000 words, so all five stories makes altogether the length of a very short novel--more a novella. To quote the introduction, in "the order in which they occur in Sookie's life, the stories are "Fairy Dust" (from Powers of Detection), "Dracula Night" (from Many Bloody Returns,) "One Word Answer" (from Bite) "Lucky" (from Unusual Suspects), and "Gift Wrap" (from Wolfsbane and Mistletoe)." Except for the end of "Gift Wrap" all of them, like the series novels, are told in Sookie's own folksy voice with plenty of wit and humor.I'd say "One Word Answer" and "Gift Wrap" are the weakest, although enjoyable if you're a fan--especially since "One Word Answer" fills in a missing gap between the fifth and sixth book. It tells the story of how Sookie was informed of her cousin Hadley's death and how she first met the half-demon Mr Cataliades and the Vampire Queen of Louisiana, Sophie-Anne Leclerq. "Gift Wrap" is a rather sweet and fluffy Christmas tale about an unusual gift... (Well, unless you find the twist creepy--and I could understand why some do.) "Lucky" and "Fairy Dust" are both short mysteries. "Lucky" features insurance salesman and witch Greg Aubert who boasts an unusual talent. And features as well one of my favorite characters in the series, Sookie's roommate, the witch Amelia Broadway--with a cameo from Bob the cat. "Fairy Dust" deals with the murder of Claude and Claudine's triplet, Claudia. (Yes, all three are fairies.) Even though Sookie uses her telepathic talents in the tale, the solution actually involves a neat bit of deduction on her part, and the story is my second favorite in the book.That leaves "Dracula Night." Harris says in the introduction she couldn't quite make it fit neatly into the Stackhouse canon, but I have to admit I have a huge soft spot for this story. It was my introduction to Sookie, and I found myself completely charmed by it. See, in it there's this vampire legend that on Halloween Night Dracula himself might come to visit, and Eric Northman, Viking vampire, is definitely a fan. Sookie compares his excitement to Charlie Brown awaiting the Great Pumpkin. If I'd rate "One Word" and "Gift Wrap" three stars, and "Fairy Dust" and "Lucky" four, well I'd give "Dracula Night" a firm five for charm. Taken all together though, this seems a rather slight offering for the price.
    • 3/5
      I'm generally not big on short story collections, so I wasn't sure I was going to read this after I got it out from the library by accident. I started reading out of curiosity, and I found the stories light and quick reading. I don't think any of them are must-reads or essential to the series in any way, but they were a good read.
    • 5/5
      It’s a compilation of Sookie Stackhouse short stories. My favourites were “Lucky” and “Gift Wrap” and also “Dracula Night”, which I had already read before. It’s a very cute book and I will certainly read it again, since it really is a simple, fun and fast read.
    • 5/5
      Despite their popularity, I have never read any of Charlaine Harris's Sookie Stackhouse novels. However, I have read some of her short stories featuring Sookie and find that they are laced with humor, making for fun reads. A Touch of Dead compiles all 5 shorts (as of 2009) - "Fairy Dust", "Dracula Night", "One Word Answer", "Lucky", and "Gift Wrapped". I have read the last three before, but this was my first time reading the first two. I enjoyed all of them immensely, but "Lucky" was by far my favorite for the excellent story and twists. The one thing you get reading these stories in A Touch of Dead rather than in the anthologies they originally appeared in is run full-page illustrations before each story that are a delight.
    • 3/5
      A collection of all the Sookie Stackhouse (True Blood) short stories that were previously released in various anthologies. As such, the quality differs in the variety. Basic rule of thumb is, the story is more interesting the later in the series it was written.
    • 2/5
      It took just over an hour to read this Sookie snippets. They don't really add any value to the series but still if you are a fan desperate for a fix this is a snack to tide you over
    • 3/5
      A Touch Of Dead is a collection of short stories of Sookie Stackhouse. It fills in some of the small gaps that are in the series books. I really should stop getting my hopes up that these will be really good because short stories usually aren't. It was an ok read overall but not a regular reread.
    • 3/5
      After a break from Miss Stackhouse it was a refreshing quick read - a nice addition to the series.
    • 4/5
      Five short stories featuring Sookie Sackhouse, with a helpful explanation from the author about when each story takes place between the books. This is a nice collection that expands on a few of the more interesting secondary characters. They range from sweet to sexy, with a little bit strange thrown in. Even Bubba is back for a mention or two. This is a good collection for any fan of the Sookie books, but probably a little random for someone who's never encountered them before.