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Originally Posted by ficbot
I am finding this now as well. I am into book 6 now and it seems there is a whole other novel somewhere that I missed! I remember nothing about this cousin or the queen or any of this. I looked on Wikipedia and it seems it was in a short story. I don't really thibk this is fair to the reader, most people who read the series may not see the short stories or even know about them and I don't think she should introduce major canon moments 'off-screen' as it were. This will definitely affect my rating of the book.
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The short story your looking for is "One Word Answer" in Bite, a collection compiled by Laurell K. Hamilton. This is the only story that people notice missing when reading the Southern Vampire novels. For a brief period in the beginning of the book "Definitely Dead" readers get the feeling that they skipped a book and might be reading things out of sequence.
To be fair though Charlaine Harris does give a quick overview to bring readers up to date and if they never read the short story they aren't missing much. The other 7 or so short stories she has written with characters in the Sookieverse have no impact at all to the sequence of the novels.
When my daughter read the series I did ensure (a quick Google search) that she got the chance to read the short story "One Word Answer" prior to Definitely Dead (book 6).
I'm looking forward to the next book.
Happy New Year!
