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3.33 AVERAGE
3.33 AVERAGE
I knew not to expect much from this book and that's what I got so somehow I'm not disappointed.
I still like Sookie as a heroine but this book really felt like a melting pot of everything thrown together as "goodbye" and nothing of much interest. Too bad.
I'm sad I did not enjoy the last books that much because Sookie's books used to be some of my favorite. But I guess it was not that bad as a whole so I'll still have fond memories of this series.
I still like Sookie as a heroine but this book really felt like a melting pot of everything thrown together as "goodbye" and nothing of much interest. Too bad.
I'm sad I did not enjoy the last books that much because Sookie's books used to be some of my favorite. But I guess it was not that bad as a whole so I'll still have fond memories of this series.
As so often with series endings, it felt a little rushed and not quite satisfactory, but I did enjoy the circularity of it all.
Harris is expecting mixed reactions to the ending: “I always knew I couldn’t write an end that would make everybody happy and, of course, I haven’t,” she says. “It’s the right ending and it’s the one I had planned from the beginning, but it’s inevitable that there are going to people that are gonna be less than happy with it.”
Source: http://www.scifinow.co.uk/blog/40055/true-bloods-charlaine-harris-reveals-dead-ever-after-spoilers/
I canceled my Kindle order yesterday after reading some spoilers. I ordered it again after I calmed down. But when I read this, I'm pretty sure the rumors are true and Sookie's gonna end up with Sam. And that makes no sense, at all, no matter what happens in DEA. It negates everything that happened in the other 12 books, and Sookie would be back to square one. Getting worked up.
I finally finished the book when usually an SVM book would take me a couple days to read. This is poorly written. No sass. Hardly any humor. This is boring. Sookie spends most of the book gardening, cleaning, cooking, doing the grocery, the laundry. There's hardly any action, except at the end when everything's rushed all of a sudden, sex scene included. I won't discuss the choice of suitor because this is not what bothered me the most. This book is a huge let down. Don't buy it.
Source: http://www.scifinow.co.uk/blog/40055/true-bloods-charlaine-harris-reveals-dead-ever-after-spoilers/
I canceled my Kindle order yesterday after reading some spoilers. I ordered it again after I calmed down. But when I read this, I'm pretty sure the rumors are true and Sookie's gonna end up with Sam. And that makes no sense, at all, no matter what happens in DEA. It negates everything that happened in the other 12 books, and Sookie would be back to square one. Getting worked up.
I finally finished the book when usually an SVM book would take me a couple days to read. This is poorly written. No sass. Hardly any humor. This is boring. Sookie spends most of the book gardening, cleaning, cooking, doing the grocery, the laundry. There's hardly any action, except at the end when everything's rushed all of a sudden, sex scene included. I won't discuss the choice of suitor because this is not what bothered me the most. This book is a huge let down. Don't buy it.
I like the different points of view but didn't like it as much as the beginning of the series.
I am glad this series is over, it was (in my opinion) flagging badly, but it does feel strange knowing that is has finished. I am happy that it has ended on a high note though.
The saving grace of this book was the writing style, the tone of the book changed a *lot* from the previous novels as we gained some insights into the 'bad guys' which you never had in the previous books - I guessed who the one was very quickly ( Steve Newlin ) but the other came as quite a shock.
I wish there weren't so many 'bit' characters who were re-introduced - Arlene, Quinn and Alcide all appear for a few pages and disappear just as quickly, Eric, Pam and Bill are relegated to barely supporting roles - which considering how the last book ended was very jarring, I did like the fact that the demon lawyer Catilades and his niece have more of a starring role however. There were also some more plot points that weren't really necessary (the scene in the second hand dress shop with the Were, the drunk suing Merlottes) but it wouldn't be a Sookie Stackhouse novel without those elements.
Overall, I wasn't impressed with the way some characters were handled but this was a relatively strong end to a struggling series and definitely an enjoyable read.
The saving grace of this book was the writing style, the tone of the book changed a *lot* from the previous novels as we gained some insights into the 'bad guys' which you never had in the previous books - I guessed who the one was very quickly (
I wish there weren't so many 'bit' characters who were re-introduced - Arlene, Quinn and Alcide all appear for a few pages and disappear just as quickly, Eric, Pam and Bill are relegated to barely supporting roles - which considering how the last book ended was very jarring, I did like the fact that the demon lawyer Catilades and his niece have more of a starring role however. There were also some more plot points that weren't really necessary (the scene in the second hand dress shop with the Were, the drunk suing Merlottes) but it wouldn't be a Sookie Stackhouse novel without those elements.
Overall, I wasn't impressed with the way some characters were handled but this was a relatively strong end to a struggling series and definitely an enjoyable read.
This was an acceptable conclusion to the series. While I never wanted her to end up with Sam , I made my peace with it early in the book. It was pretty obvious to me who it was going to be.
It reminded me a bit of the series finale of Seinfeld, with a parade of all the past characters. Most of these cameos felt completely unnecessary, except to remind the readers that they once existed, and to update us to what was happening with their lives.
I could have done without the first 150 pages. WAY too much setup, most of which was spent on that character parade. Meh.
It reminded me a bit of the series finale of Seinfeld, with a parade of all the past characters. Most of these cameos felt completely unnecessary, except to remind the readers that they once existed, and to update us to what was happening with their lives.
I could have done without the first 150 pages. WAY too much setup, most of which was spent on that character parade. Meh.
This is the thirteenth and final (whoo!) Sookie Stackhouse novel, the series on which the HBO series True Blood is now only extremely loosely based. This is absolutely NOT the best place to start if you've not read the books before. Better go back to the beginning and start with [b:Dead Until Dark|301082|Dead Until Dark (Sookie Stackhouse, #1)|Charlaine Harris|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1311115565s/301082.jpg|479517]. This review will also contain spoilers for the ending of book 12: [b:Deadlocked|12381269|Deadlocked (Sookie Stackhouse, #12)|Charlaine Harris|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1321805655s/12381269.jpg|15311332], so if you want to avoid that sort of thing, look away now.
Still here - then spoilers be on your own head. After literally bringing Sam back from the dead at the end of the previous book, using her magical fairy artifact, Sookie was sort of hoping that he might at least be a bit grateful. Instead, he seems mostly out of it. Eric is furious with her, as she could have used her "make any wish" bling to get him out of his wedding contract with the Vampire Queen of Oklahoma. Now, when Sookie goes to try to talk to him about it, she gets banned from Fangtasia.
Soon Sookie has bigger worries than the fact that her boss and close friend seems to want to avoid her, and her imperious vampire husband is about to divorce her and marry another. Arlene, former barmaid at Merlotte's and once Sookie's good friend (until she tried to lure Sookie into the hands of people who wanted to crucify, torture and murder her), has been released from prison on bail, and arrives at the bar to ask for her job back. Now, the answer is clearly no, but the fact that she was seen storming out of the bar looking angry certainly doesn't help Sookie's case, when Arlene's body is found in the dumpster behind the bar, strangled with one of Ms. Stackhouse's scarves.
Sookie's only alibi is verified by a vampire, not something necessarily helpful in a court of law. Luckily, she has made a lot of influential and resourceful friends over the years, who all turn up to help her clear her name.
I honestly can't remember whether the early books in the series (which I started reading nearly ten years ago) went into quite as much tedious detail about every aspect of Sookie's life as these later ones do. In the last one, very little of any consequence happened, and I was ready to tear my hair out if I had to read more about how Sookie shopped for groceries and pottered about around her house. There is still a fair bit of "and then I got dressed, and put on make-up and put my hair in a ponytail and drove to work" to this one, especially in the first half of the book, but there is also clearly a tying off of threads, and closing doors and saying goodbye to all the various characters in these books.
There are a lot of very angry fans here on Goodreads and over on Amazon. So many people feel cheated by the way [a:Charlaine Harris|17061|Charlaine Harris|http://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1307925926p2/17061.jpg] chose to end her series. Frankly, after the last book, I was pretty much determined to read this book just out of stubbornness, because I'd stuck with the previous twelve. I don't want to spoil the ending (there's more than enough sites out there on the internet that will, though), but I can tell you that it didn't end, as I'd hoped, with Sookie simply choosing herself. God forbid that a woman in a paranormal fantasy series come to the conclusion that she's actually fine on her own, without a man to lean on. I can see why some people are pissed off, but considering the way the character development of certain prominent characters have been handled in the last few books, there really wasn't any other way for this to go. I'm sorry there wasn't more Pam in the book, she's always been my favourite character. All in all, I'm just glad the series didn't end with [b:Deadlocked|12381269|Deadlocked (Sookie Stackhouse, #12)|Charlaine Harris|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1321805655s/12381269.jpg|15311332], and went out on a bit more of a high note.
Still here - then spoilers be on your own head. After literally bringing Sam back from the dead at the end of the previous book, using her magical fairy artifact, Sookie was sort of hoping that he might at least be a bit grateful. Instead, he seems mostly out of it. Eric is furious with her, as she could have used her "make any wish" bling to get him out of his wedding contract with the Vampire Queen of Oklahoma. Now, when Sookie goes to try to talk to him about it, she gets banned from Fangtasia.
Soon Sookie has bigger worries than the fact that her boss and close friend seems to want to avoid her, and her imperious vampire husband is about to divorce her and marry another. Arlene, former barmaid at Merlotte's and once Sookie's good friend (until she tried to lure Sookie into the hands of people who wanted to crucify, torture and murder her), has been released from prison on bail, and arrives at the bar to ask for her job back. Now, the answer is clearly no, but the fact that she was seen storming out of the bar looking angry certainly doesn't help Sookie's case, when Arlene's body is found in the dumpster behind the bar, strangled with one of Ms. Stackhouse's scarves.
Sookie's only alibi is verified by a vampire, not something necessarily helpful in a court of law. Luckily, she has made a lot of influential and resourceful friends over the years, who all turn up to help her clear her name.
I honestly can't remember whether the early books in the series (which I started reading nearly ten years ago) went into quite as much tedious detail about every aspect of Sookie's life as these later ones do. In the last one, very little of any consequence happened, and I was ready to tear my hair out if I had to read more about how Sookie shopped for groceries and pottered about around her house. There is still a fair bit of "and then I got dressed, and put on make-up and put my hair in a ponytail and drove to work" to this one, especially in the first half of the book, but there is also clearly a tying off of threads, and closing doors and saying goodbye to all the various characters in these books.
There are a lot of very angry fans here on Goodreads and over on Amazon. So many people feel cheated by the way [a:Charlaine Harris|17061|Charlaine Harris|http://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1307925926p2/17061.jpg] chose to end her series. Frankly, after the last book, I was pretty much determined to read this book just out of stubbornness, because I'd stuck with the previous twelve. I don't want to spoil the ending (there's more than enough sites out there on the internet that will, though), but I can tell you that it didn't end, as I'd hoped, with Sookie simply choosing herself. God forbid that a woman in a paranormal fantasy series come to the conclusion that she's actually fine on her own, without a man to lean on. I can see why some people are pissed off, but considering the way the character development of certain prominent characters have been handled in the last few books, there really wasn't any other way for this to go. I'm sorry there wasn't more Pam in the book, she's always been my favourite character. All in all, I'm just glad the series didn't end with [b:Deadlocked|12381269|Deadlocked (Sookie Stackhouse, #12)|Charlaine Harris|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1321805655s/12381269.jpg|15311332], and went out on a bit more of a high note.
IT'S OVER!!! Oh wait, no it's not... [bc:After Dead: What Came Next in the World of Sookie Stackhouse|17239876|After Dead What Came Next in the World of Sookie Stackhouse (Sookie Stackhouse, #13.5)|Charlaine Harris|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1364533931s/17239876.jpg|23766743].
I devoured this book in one day because I had to know what happened. Am I surprised? No. Am I disappointed? A little. Am I raging mad? No. I'm not as disappointed with who Sookie ends up with as much as I am that characters like Eric and Bill just faded away.
I'll probably read 13.5 because I'm a sucker!!
I'll probably read 13.5 because I'm a sucker!!
For the finale of the serious this just felt like a way to tie up some loose ends without much plot. Ok but a little disappointing.