Sookie short stories 2010-09-05

Reviewer: Mufu

As a fan of the series I loved this book. If you can't get enough Sookie Stackhouse, then this extra dose is what you're looking for.

I can't wait for the next one!!! 2010-08-27

Reviewer: Krystal D. Quillen

This is a great read for all Sookie fans. I can't wait for the next book!!!

A thoroughly enjoyable collection of short stories for Sookie fans 2010-08-24

Reviewer: T

3.5 stars.

I thoroughly enjoyed this collection of short stories, so much so that I was about to give it 4 stars. I think my enjoyment has a lot to do with the fact that I didn't have to pay $23.95 to read it. As a free offering, it's a great entertainment.

In no way is Charlaine Harris is a great short story writer or a writer period, and yet her books are like crack to me - can't get enough of them, even though I know they are not good in any literary sense.

Yes, some of the stories suffer from too abrupt resolutions ("Dracula Night" and "One World Answer") or lack of any kind of conflict ("Gift Wrap"), but I didn't care, I enjoyed the characters, new and old, the breeziness of the narration, and Sookie herself, whom I now find to be amusingly overconfident in her own intelligence. Also, it turns out she is quite tartier that I originally thought, based on the events of "Gift Wrap."

All in all, this book is a nice entertainment, especially for Sookie enthusiasts and series completists. Wouldn't care to pay a hard cover price for it though.

Books 2010-08-16

Reviewer: Patricia Humm

I don't think this is the short story book that I was looking for...but I enjoyed it nonetheless. It would be nice if it were specific if these were the short stories to be read between the books in the series.

Complete Rubbish 2010-08-12

Reviewer: Elizabeth Lehtonen

I absolutely love True Blood and the Sookie Stackhouse Series; I've read all the books and (to the greater degree) have loved all of them as well...

But these short stories were some of the worst I have ever read. I have read way better fan fiction. Maybe one of the stories wasn't completely far fetched, but the others were just odd.

I mean, Sookie's outside chilling with Bubba raking her leaves? Really? Eric freaking out over Dracula? Talk about out of character. Sookie and Amelia being sleuths? What is this Nancy Drew?

The stories took such a stretch for me in regards to how the characters actually are, that I couldn't take any of it seriously. And the stories, for what they were, were too short. I was expecting something a bit more like Janet Evanovich's "between the numbers" which are generally a good 150 pages. These stories seemed to average about 20? (reading on kindle so hard to say).

No matter how much you love this universe, this isn't worth it.