Tracy S. (allister) -
Helpful Score: 12
Oh no. Charlaine? These "After" synopses of every character were poorly thought out and I think were just coughed up one night over a bottle of wine. My teenager could envision better endings for these fictitious souls. Don't bother with your time or your dime.
Nicole R. (Tumbleweed) -
Helpful Score: 9
This wasn't at all what I expected. I was quite disappointed actually. Very quick read. The UPS man delivered it at 5:45pm this evening and im writing this review at 7:15pm....
Danielle R. (danielleraybuck) reviewed After Dead: What Came Next in the World of Sookie Stackhouse on + 76 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 8
ugh.....there's maybe 1000 words total in this book. some pages are 1 sentence long.
Manda G. (chickpicks) -
Helpful Score: 4
Waste of time- all 30 minutes it took me to "read" it
Waste of money- very small HB
Waste of my sanity- My 5 yr old nephew could have written better recaps of the characters.
Each page is dedicated to a character in the series. Sookie gets an entire 1 1/2 pages. And some of the pages just have a picture on them.
HERE IS A SPOILER>>>>> Quinn...who I feel had a big role in at least ONE of the books, gets an ENTIRE SENTENCE dedicated to him (yes on one entire page). Do you know what she says? (STOP READING IF YOU DON'T WANT TO KNOW THIS HIGHLY THOUGHT OUT SENTENCE) She says, "Quinn went on to have many more adventures." Really? Thanks for the update. His sister got more than 1 sentence!
Waste of money- very small HB
Waste of my sanity- My 5 yr old nephew could have written better recaps of the characters.
Each page is dedicated to a character in the series. Sookie gets an entire 1 1/2 pages. And some of the pages just have a picture on them.
HERE IS A SPOILER>>>>> Quinn...who I feel had a big role in at least ONE of the books, gets an ENTIRE SENTENCE dedicated to him (yes on one entire page). Do you know what she says? (STOP READING IF YOU DON'T WANT TO KNOW THIS HIGHLY THOUGHT OUT SENTENCE) She says, "Quinn went on to have many more adventures." Really? Thanks for the update. His sister got more than 1 sentence!
Laura P. (hemmputnam) reviewed After Dead: What Came Next in the World of Sookie Stackhouse on + 1114 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 2
I understand readers' disappointment if they ordered the book without having a chance to look at it. As someone who picked it up from the library and therefore realized it was more of a fun, flip through it listing of characters rather than a novel about what happened next, I honestly liked it. It made me want to go back and reread the series because there are people I didn't remember at all. I was impressed by how quickly I was back in Sookie's world with such brief descriptions. If you're a fan of the series and you know what you're getting, you may like this one!
Debbie (deb3009) -
Helpful Score: 1
I actually laughed when I got this book. I would have never spent money on it, glad it was only a credit. Charlaine Harris, you've lost me as a fan.
Veronica S. (snowkitty) -
Helpful Score: 1
I agree with every review here. Because the reviews were so bad I did not spend money on this book, only a credit, and I totally wasted my credit. Take note, this book is hardcover and is not much bigger than a child's hardcover Golden book. Almost every single chapter is one small paragraph. Every chapter is not numbered, but is a letter, and the letter takes up one whole page. She used the whole alphabet. And on the other side of the chapter/letter page is blank. Therefore, lots of blank pages. And the price on the inside cover is $18.00. This is such a blatant rip off, and I'm sorry but she can claim 'till the cows come home that she has no say in this, I wouldn't believe it. I will never read another of her books. Treating fans like that is unacceptable.
Margarita B. (tati) reviewed After Dead: What Came Next in the World of Sookie Stackhouse on + 9 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
I would suggest you do not spend money to buy this book unless you have a collection of the Sookie Stackhouse books you want to complete. This book is not worth the money. That said, I ordered the book on PBS to complete my reading of the series and at most it took me half an hour to finish. The book is very limited regarding the information she gives out on some of the characters such as Quinn and Barry (saving for upcoming books?). To be honest, I could not even remember many of the characters included in this book. So borrow from someone who already has the book or order on PBS to complete your reading but don't expect much.
Waste of money.
Rachel A. (ra7) reviewed After Dead: What Came Next in the World of Sookie Stackhouse on + 1009 more book reviews
That's it? Overall disappointing.
Fans of the series might want to read this one (I am one, and to do over, I probably wouldn't have bothered with this one).
Fans of the series might want to read this one (I am one, and to do over, I probably wouldn't have bothered with this one).
Tiffany K. (tiffanyak) -
First of all, I will start by saying that I am extremely tolerant when it comes to this series. While others got disappointed by previous volumes or were upset by developments, I just rolled with it and still had fun with them. But, this book is a travesty and should never have been published. Not only is it a waste of time and space, with continuity errors, many blank pages and pages comprising of just decoration or only a few sentences (or less), and downright depressing made-up ends for a majority of the characters, but it doesn't even feel as though the author was taking it seriously. It feels as though the publishers wanted to do a grab for more money with one more book, so she just shrugged and tried to throw something together for each character and what happened to them after the series. Whether this is the truth of how the book happened or not, it should never feel as though the author doesn't even care what they're writing. All of the books in this series are on my keeper shelf, but this one I'll be getting rid of ASAP. It just isn't worth it. At all. If you feel you must read it, please do yourself a favor and get it from a library or borrow it from someone. You'll thank me later. Besides, with how little content there is here, even the slowest of readers will be done with it in no time, so you really could just sit down with it and not even bother taking it home.
Georgia L. reviewed After Dead: What Came Next in the World of Sookie Stackhouse on + 22 more book reviews
Very disappointed in this book. It is set up like an encyclopedia. If you like reading encyclopedias then you will probably enjoy it. As for me it was a complete waste of my time. Absolutely awful after all.
Michelle S. (chocolatyshatnr) -
I'm glad I didn't pay for this book. A total waste of time. Granted, it only took 10 minutes to read, but still. I've read all of the Sookie Stackhouse books, and I couldn't remember who a lot of these people were. Did she just need a total number of characters included in the book to reach a certain page number? A better idea would be to focus on the characters people actually care about and spend 4-5 pages each.
