Dead to the World
Quotes from the Book
Some might think you suicidal." "Well, 'some' can stick it up their ass.
Ha," I said. "Oh, ha-ha. Yeah, ’cause they love me. You see how many vampires are up here? Zero, right?" One," said Eric, stepping out of the stairwell.
I often cried when I got angry; I hated that. Crying just made you look weak, no matter what triggered it.
Was I just curious about what the agenda might be at a vampire summit? Did I want the attention of more undead members of society? Did I want to be known as a fangbanger, one of those humans who simply adored the walking dead? Did some corner of me long for a chance to be near Bill without seeking him out, still trying to make some emotional sense of his betrayal? Or was this about Eric? Unbeknownst to myself, was I in love with the flamboyant Viking who was so handsome, so good at making love, and so political, all atthe same time? This sounded like a promising set of problems for a soap opera season.
If it's easy to be friendly she will be. If the wind blows the other way her friendship will be gone. And I'm thinking the wind is blowing the other way. She has found some other way to be an important person in her own right by hating others.
This must be the legendary Yankee rudeness
As exits go, that's a good one." It was pretty hard to have the last word with a vampire.
Just because one of Arlene's husbands was a murderer is no reason for me to be ugly
Anyone got X-ray visión?I asked, trying to smile. Where is Superman when you need him?
Hoyt was by himself right under one of the portable lights rigged up for the occasion. He had his hands thrust in his pockets, and he looked more serious than I’d ever seen him. There was something strange about the sight, and after a second I figured out why. It was one of the few times I’d ever seen Hoyt alone.
Eric,” she said, “maybe someday one of the waitresses will get pregnant, and we can go to a baby shower!” “That would be something to see,” said Eric
I said the first thing that came into my head unfortunately. "Save the drama for your mama " I told her just like an eleven-year-old.
As far as I could tell, Claude's benefit to the world was strictly as a decoration. -Sookie
Then I happened upon a whore.
I had a smell in my nose that just wouldn't go away, and I hated it. It was coating my lungs inside, I thought, and I'd spend the rest of my life breathing it in and breathing it out. The odor was composed of burning building materials, scorched bodies, and disintegrating vampires. It was the smell of hatred.
It might be late September, but is was hot as the six shades of hell.
Love them to death. Sookie to Pam
Sam, há dois anos, não fazia qualquer ideia de como era o mundo há minha volta. Não sabia o que tu eras. Não sabia que existiam fadas a sério. Não poderia ter imaginado nada disso. - Abanei a cabeça. - Que mundo este, Sam. É maravilhoso e assustador. Cada dia é diferente. Nunca pensei que teria uma vida e agora tenho.
It's my partner," he said, smiling. It didn't look easy for him, that smile, but it transformed him from a thin-faced freckled man with a blade of a nose to a man with sexiness to spare.
She’s lazy. That extends to her friendships. If it’s easy to be friendly, she will be. If the wind blows the other way, her friendship will be gone. And I’m thinking the wind is blowing the other way. She has found some other way to be an important person in her own right, by hating others.
Era o odor composto pelos materiais do edifício em chamas, por corpos queimados e por vampiros em desintegração. Era o cheiro do ódio.
Clovache's Voice said, "How large is the device?" Her accent was sort of like Russian, as least to my untravelled ears. ("Hau larch . . . ?") "The size of one of those cans of sweetened syrup," Batanya answered. "Ah, the burping drinks," Clovache said.
Did you know?
- It is the seventh book in the Southern Vampire Mysteries (Sookie Stackhouse) series.
- It was first published in May 2007 by Ace Books.
- The series it belongs to inspired the HBO television series True Blood.
- Much of the action takes place at a vampire summit that Sookie attends as a telepath.
- The novel follows Definitely Dead and precedes From Dead to Worse in the series.
About Charlaine Harris
More by Charlaine Harris
All books by Charlaine Harris →About the book
All Together Dead is the seventh novel in Charlaine Harris's Southern Vampire Mysteries, the series narrated by Sookie Stackhouse, a telepathic cocktail waitress from small-town Louisiana. In this installment, Sookie travels to a long-planned vampire summit where the vampire queen of Louisiana, whose power base has been weakened by hurricane damage to New Orleans, faces a tense political reckoning. Called on to use her telepathy in service of vampire politics, Sookie navigates rival factions, a new relationship with the shapeshifter Quinn, and the deepening complications of her ties to the vampire Eric Northman.
The book blends urban fantasy, mystery, and romance, threading personal drama through a larger plot of intrigue and danger among the assembled undead. As with the rest of the series, it explores themes of prejudice and belonging through the lens of vampires who have gone public, alongside the anti-vampire hostility of groups like the Fellowship of the Sun. Sookie's outsider status, both as a telepath and as a human moving among supernatural creatures, keeps questions of trust, loyalty, and identity at the heart of the story.
The Southern Vampire Mysteries became widely popular and served as the basis for the HBO television series True Blood, which brought Sookie and her world to a large new audience. All Together Dead continues the series' signature mix of Southern voice, wry humor, and escalating supernatural stakes that made Harris a bestselling author in the paranormal genre.
Key characters
- Sookie StackhouseTelepathic Louisiana cocktail waitress and narrator
- Eric NorthmanVampire sheriff whose bond with Sookie deepens
- QuinnWeretiger and Sookie's new love interest
- Queen Sophie-AnneVampire queen of Louisiana in a precarious political position
- Barry HorowitzFellow telepath who assists at the summit
- AndreThe queen's vampire child and enforcer
Book details
- First published
- 2007
- Length
- 336 pages
- Reading time
- 6 hours
- Author
- Charlaine Harris
- Genre
- Fiction
- Goodreads rating
- 4.05 (209k ratings) →
Series & reading order
- 1 Dead Until Dark
- 2 Living Dead in Dallas
- 3 Club Dead
- 4 Dead to the World
- 5 Dead as a Doornail
- 6 Definitely Dead
- 7 All Together Dead
- 8 From Dead to Worse
If you liked this, read…
- 1Dead Until DarkThe first Sookie Stackhouse novel that launched the same series and world
- 2Guilty PleasuresLaurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake urban fantasy with vampires and a supernatural investigator heroine
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