Definitely Dead (6th Sookie Stackhouse novel)

The plot of Charlaine Harris' Definitely Dead (2006) is the strongest of the series, so far, a trend that began with the previous novel. It involves Sookie learning more about the last days of her vampire cousin Hadley (now staked and "definitely dead"), the marriage of the vampire queen of Louisiana Sophie-Anne Leclerc to the vampire king of Arkansas, Peter Threadgill, with associated complications, and the efforts of the Pelt family to get revenge on Sookie for the death of their were-lynx daughter Debbie (who Sookie shot in self-defense in Dead to the World).


The metaplot is something of a mixed blessing. Sookie as the narrator describes the basic metaplot extending across the whole series to this point:

In the past year, somehow I'd assumed the role of guardian of the weird in my little corner of our state. I was the poster girl for interspecies tolerance. I'd learned a lot about the other universe, the one that surrounded the (mostly oblivious) human race. It was kind of neat, knowing stuff that other people didn't. But it complicated my already difficult life, and it led me into dangerous byways among beings who desperately wanted to keep their existence a secret.

We learn a lot more about fairies in this novel. We also learn that Sookie has a fairy ancestor of some sort.

Sookie acquires a new friend in this one, a New Orleans witch about Sookie's age named Amelia Broadway. In the end, Amelia goes to stay with Sookie in Bon Temps for a while, along with her cat Bob, who had actually been a human male witch who Amelia had accidentally turned into a cat and doesn't know how to turn him back.

And she begins a hot romance with Quinn, a weretiger who she met in the Dead As a Doornail.

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