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Dead as a Doornail

Sookie Stackhouse Southern Vampire Mystery #5

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Dead as a Doornail

By: Charlaine Harris
Narrated by: Johanna Parker
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About this listen

 Sookie Stackhouse enjoys her life, mostly. She's a great cocktail waitress in a fun bar; she has a love life, albeit a bit complicated, and most people have come to terms with her telepathy. The problem is, Sookie wants a quiet life - but things just seem to happen to her and her friends.

Now her brother Jason's eyes are starting to change: he's about to turn into a were-panther for the first time. She can deal with that, but her normal sisterly concern turns to cold fear when a sniper sets his deadly sights on the local changeling population. She's afraid not just because Jason's at risk, but because his new were-brethren suspect Jason may be the shooter.

Sookie has until the next full moon to find out who's behind the attacks - unless the killer decides to find her first.

©2005 Charlaine Harris Schulz (P)2005 Recorded Books, LLC Fantasy Fiction Paranormal Paranormal Romance Romance

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a bit too much background noise at times recording did seem as good as others in series.

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This book is very entertaining and I could not stop until I had read the whole book. I loved the mix of characters and the plot of the book. You can listen to the book whilst basking in the sun in the park or whilst taking a walk. Absolutely beautiful.

Very entertaining

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Another good book in the series but what the heck has happened with the narrator?? She seems to have got sick of doing different accents. Sookie is about half as southern as she is in all the other books, Eric has completely lost his foreign accent and why is Pam not English anymore??? It's a shame because the narration really made the other books for me but it's like she can't be bothered in this one, disappointing 😔

What's happened to all the accents??

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I have a confession...I read the Sookie Stackhouse series loooong ago. I devoured the books as a younger reader, I fell in love with characters, I wanted to live in Bon Temps. And that's what I look for in a book at any age. I want to be spirited away from my life and into someone elses.

X number of years on, I use the audiobooks to fall asleep to. The stories, whilst imaginative, aren't going to win any literary prizes. The style is "American", it is aimed at younger readers, it does have some laughable lines (the sex scenes will make you cringe) - but I can't help but love them.

An Imaginative World Where Vampires Exist

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This series does not flag the world of Charlaine Harris performed by Johanna Parker is both entertaining and compelling.

really such a good series

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