Dead Reckoning

I find it so hard to believe that the characters in the last two books are the same ones I fell in love with. They have changed in NOT good ways. Sookie has seemed to dumb herself down more and more.. instead of growing with the story. sigh I am so angry with this series right now I don't even want to write a review. I miss the book characters and not the POS HBO characters she is trying to turn them into.. rather has turned them into

I quite enjoyed this book, but I didn't really “love” it. To be fair, it's more between 4 and 4.5 stars. There wasn't anything wrong with it, but there it wasn't amazing.

At this point, I'm only finishing this series in the hopes that Sookie dies at the end.

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Another Sookie story that I really loved. I love that the story still intrigues me enough to keep going. The gang is up against Victor who is in charge of the area but really wants Eric to be gone because he senses a threat. Eric and Sookie need to be one step ahead of him at all times. We have the fairies Dermott and Claude and her friend Amelia who all keep butting into her love life.

For fluff, it's got some really dark scenes. It doesn't have enough of a plot to be anything more than fluff, though. It absolutely does NOT stand alone, so don't consider reading this book unless you've read all that went before it - you'll be hopelessly lost.

Sookie has changed so much over the course of this series that she is having trouble recognizing herself, and is troubled over it, with good reason. Having a main character change is good, and I'll say that some of that change is growth, but I can't say it's all growth, or all to the good. (Can any of us say that, though, about the changes we go through in our lives?)

Unfortunately, this series is starting to lose steam. I had a really hard time getting into this book because it seemed such a very different style from the previous books - almost as if it wasn't even written by Charlaine Harris - it just lacked the right voice.

This book was a good continuation of the story. I don't really get what was so controversial about this book. It was classic Sookie! I love how Sookie processes how her morals have changed after becoming involved with the vamps & supes.

This one was kind of all over the place. At first I thought maybe Harris was simply tying up loose ends and this would be the end of the Sookie series, but she ends with still as many questions as there've been in the past so I'm happy to say there should be more to come.

Eric is still my favorite. I love him to pieces and while Bill does make an appearance and seems to come to Sookie's aid it doesn't endear him to me at all. I love reading more about Pam, that with every book she's getting bigger and bigger slices them. Sometimes it's hard to keep the other characters straight, there's so much going on. Fairies, elves, vampires, shapeshifters, weres, humans, oh my!