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3.33 AVERAGE
3.33 AVERAGE
I liked but didn't love the last book in the Sookie Stackhouse series. While I enjoyed visited the familiar characters, the plot seemed disjointed and the ending and resolution rushed. Factors that could be influencing my less than stellar feeling about the book: 1) a LOT of time has passed since I read the book just prior to this one. I normally read them as soon as they come out in hardcover, and this one I just didn't pick up until a few weeks ago: an impulse purchase from the paperback section at the grocery store; 2) not enough Eric Northman exposure! 3) after successfully avoiding any spoilers as to how it all winds up, I spoiled the ending for myself by casually and randomly skimming through the "Fan Questions for Charlaine Harris" at the end of the book when I'd finished a reading session right before going to sleep -- one of the questions gave away the ending! It was all anti-climatic reading from that point; and finally, 4) I am also currently watching the final season of True Blood, which I have followed along with faithfully since season one, for better or for worse. The TV series so little resembles the books that my mind kept rejecting things in the story -- different characters are alive or dead in the book vs TV show, different characters are married to each other, and so on. It was a little disconcerting. So maybe I'm not giving it a fair shake. I DID begin to read the excerpt from the first book, called Midnight Crossings, in the author's new series, and it looked promising...
I don't think I hated it as much as most of fandom seems to, but it was still a seriously unsatisfying ending.
It's not even that I have anything against Sam, but it just felt like there was no proper build-up for the final friends/lovers transition, just "Oh the magic changed my priorities and now I want you" on both sides, which... no. Just no.
Added to that are the increasingly flimsy plotlines overcrowded with side characters that had been becoming a problem for the last few books already. It's nice that we got to say goodbye to everyone, but it just felt so cobbled together at times, and the devil, who was actually a pretty interesting idea, just vanished from the story completely at some point.
Ugh I don't know. I'm not as annoyed as others, I don't think I was invested in the series enough anymore to really get worked up over it, but it was just... unsatisfying. On some level I think it's interesting that Harris was trying to do something different than the expected, but it just wasn't executed anywhere near well enough for it to actually work.
Added to that are the increasingly flimsy plotlines overcrowded with side characters that had been becoming a problem for the last few books already. It's nice that we got to say goodbye to everyone, but it just felt so cobbled together at times, and the devil, who was actually a pretty interesting idea, just vanished from the story completely at some point.
Ugh I don't know. I'm not as annoyed as others, I don't think I was invested in the series enough anymore to really get worked up over it, but it was just... unsatisfying. On some level I think it's interesting that Harris was trying to do something different than the expected, but it just wasn't executed anywhere near well enough for it to actually work.
Na to, že to byl konec, tak prostě se to vážně nepovedlo.
I was really curious about the horrible reviews for the final book in this series. I think some readers were not happy with the ending of the story in terms of Sookie's love interests. I was happy about the series ending the way it did, in that respect. That said, I'd like to give this book 2.5 stars for the Scooby Doo mystery wrap up in the second to the last chapter. I think Charlaine Harris could have done better.
That ending... It wasn't bad enough to warrant death threats but really? Harris could have stopped after Dead to the World.
The Devil thing was a little confusing and I really wanted more about Warren and Mustafeles (I listened to the audiobook so my apologies about the spelling) and I'm kind of annoyed that Charline Harris just let Sookie ignore the gay werewolves. I liked Sookie and Eric, but let's be honest, they were never good for each other because they just have different priorities. This wasn't a perfect book, but it is good finale to the series.
The last Sookie Stackhouse book.
I've been attached to Sookie for a long, long time now - Anita Blake was the first paranormal series I fell in love with, the series that got me hooked on vampires, werewolves, and witches OH MY! And Sookie was the second.
Kudos to Harris for choosing to end this series before it got stale and tired (unlike the Anita Blake series, which I keep on reading and complaining about).
I finished this book a couple of weeks ago, but had to sit on the review because I honestly didn't know how I felt about the book. It was a quick read, like all the Sookie books, but I didn't want a quick read - I wanted to savor the last book. You knew the last book was going to be all about resolving Sookie's love life, which pretty much was exactly the point of the last book. Yup, there's other stuff going on, but those other story lines didn't really seem to be terribly well developed/thought out/well written, and just seemed like an afterthought - something to help keep the book going, something to help keep the book from being only 50 pages long.
So what DID I think? Well... I was disappointed. The last Sookie book, ever? Well, you just expected a lot... you expected great things, amazing things... and, well, the series concluded exactly like you knew it would, with exactly no surprises. And that just seemed like Harris cheated us a little bit. It just seemed like Harris wanted to make the long time readers happy, let's finish up the series, and be done with it.
So... that's the bad stuff. What was good about it?
* you find out who Sookie ends up with.
* it's the last book of the series
* Umm.
And there you have it. I think the fact that I can only come up with one good thing about the book, helps me to realize I rate this 3 stars. Why 3 stars? Because honestly, I knew all along she was going to end up with who she ended up with, and Charlaine Harris delivered that, as horribly badly as she did so.
There are a LOT of other reviews on this book, though annoyingly, most of the reviews start with "I didn't read this book, but I read other reviews, and I think" blah, blah. How do you review a book without actually reading the book?
I've been attached to Sookie for a long, long time now - Anita Blake was the first paranormal series I fell in love with, the series that got me hooked on vampires, werewolves, and witches OH MY! And Sookie was the second.
Kudos to Harris for choosing to end this series before it got stale and tired (unlike the Anita Blake series, which I keep on reading and complaining about).
I finished this book a couple of weeks ago, but had to sit on the review because I honestly didn't know how I felt about the book. It was a quick read, like all the Sookie books, but I didn't want a quick read - I wanted to savor the last book. You knew the last book was going to be all about resolving Sookie's love life, which pretty much was exactly the point of the last book. Yup, there's other stuff going on, but those other story lines didn't really seem to be terribly well developed/thought out/well written, and just seemed like an afterthought - something to help keep the book going, something to help keep the book from being only 50 pages long.
So what DID I think? Well... I was disappointed. The last Sookie book, ever? Well, you just expected a lot... you expected great things, amazing things... and, well, the series concluded exactly like you knew it would, with exactly no surprises. And that just seemed like Harris cheated us a little bit. It just seemed like Harris wanted to make the long time readers happy, let's finish up the series, and be done with it.
So... that's the bad stuff. What was good about it?
* you find out who Sookie ends up with.
* it's the last book of the series
* Umm.
And there you have it. I think the fact that I can only come up with one good thing about the book, helps me to realize I rate this 3 stars. Why 3 stars? Because honestly, I knew all along she was going to end up with who she ended up with, and Charlaine Harris delivered that, as horribly badly as she did so.
There are a LOT of other reviews on this book, though annoyingly, most of the reviews start with "I didn't read this book, but I read other reviews, and I think" blah, blah. How do you review a book without actually reading the book?
This read more like an awkward epilogue than a story of it's own, but I guess that's not the worst thing in the world. It was an interesting ride.