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3.33 AVERAGE
3.33 AVERAGE
Warning spoilers...
It was a pleasure and very sad to read the end of the series. But it was time. I was happy to have Sookie end up with Sam. While I loved Eric and their relationship it always bothered me a little. I mean the guy is a cold-blooded vampire. He could have turned her at any time, and she just seems such a warm person. I always felt she deserved more. Sam was always there in every book, always supporting and caring for her. Having your significant other be your best friend is a wonderful way to end up. BTW I watched the first two seasons of True Blood and just could not get into it, I thought casting was well done but the story lines focused too much on the violence/hate and not enough on the campiness and spunk that made the books so much fun. I think it took it all too seriously. Thank you Charlaine Harris for giving me such a great start to my summer reading each year! Looking forward to what may be next...
It was a pleasure and very sad to read the end of the series. But it was time. I was happy to have Sookie end up with Sam. While I loved Eric and their relationship it always bothered me a little. I mean the guy is a cold-blooded vampire. He could have turned her at any time, and she just seems such a warm person. I always felt she deserved more. Sam was always there in every book, always supporting and caring for her. Having your significant other be your best friend is a wonderful way to end up. BTW I watched the first two seasons of True Blood and just could not get into it, I thought casting was well done but the story lines focused too much on the violence/hate and not enough on the campiness and spunk that made the books so much fun. I think it took it all too seriously. Thank you Charlaine Harris for giving me such a great start to my summer reading each year! Looking forward to what may be next...
I hate this, it's been sitting on my to read shelf for a long time. I just can't bring myself to finish the rest. I got to the part where Eric's character was essentially assassinated and couldn't go any further. I'm not against Eric not being Sookie's HEA, heck I figured he probably wasn't going to be but SAM! WTF!!! I fell cheated! I might have been okay with it if Mrs. Harris set it up over the course of at least two books, but one, no way, not feeling it. I hate that I can't finish it. In most cases just the fact that an author can make you feel as strongly as you do when a character you love dies, or goes in another direction that want to stop reading is amazing. Ironically it's what keeps me reading in most cases because if they can make you feel so much for that one person, you have to wonder what else they can do. But in this case, I just can't continue. The HBO show went to shit and now the books, so sad. I loved this series for so long and can't believe how it all ended. :( The two quotes below essentially sum up my heartbreak with some much needed humor given my mood:
"Crap! I was really rooting for Terry Bellefleur. I mean, in some passage in one of the books Sookie said she liked Terry and respected him. If that’s not letting the cat out of the bag…!”
"...if Charlaine Harris had written the Harry Potter series, the end of Deathly Hallows would have Harry sleeping in the cupboard under the stairs with the spiders and no magic. While Voldemort would move in across the street, taunt him daily, and dispense life advice."
Thanks tumblr! Ughh!
"Crap! I was really rooting for Terry Bellefleur. I mean, in some passage in one of the books Sookie said she liked Terry and respected him. If that’s not letting the cat out of the bag…!”
"...if Charlaine Harris had written the Harry Potter series, the end of Deathly Hallows would have Harry sleeping in the cupboard under the stairs with the spiders and no magic. While Voldemort would move in across the street, taunt him daily, and dispense life advice."
Thanks tumblr! Ughh!
I'm kind of relieved it's over. The series has been going downhill for awhile, but still, she could've put a little more effort into it. The behavior she's written into the characters for the run of the series, just isn't here. Just about all of them are acting out of character for no rhyme or reason. just bleh!
Rating: 4.5* of five
The Publisher Says: Sookie Stackhouse finds it easy to turn down the request of former barmaid Arlene when she wants her job back at Merlotte’s. After all, Arlene tried to have Sookie killed. But her relationship with Eric Northman is not so clearcut. He and his vampires are keeping their distance…and a cold silence. And when Sookie learns the reason why, she is devastated.
Then a shocking murder rocks Bon Temps, and Sookie is arrested for the crime.
But the evidence against Sookie is weak, and she makes bail. Investigating the killing, she’ll learn that what passes for truth in Bon Temps is only a convenient lie. What passes for justice is more spilled blood. And what passes for love is never enough...
My Review: Parting is such sweet sorrow. Sookie is not to have another annual entry in the Sookieverse after this.
I got my first Sookieverse bite in 2001. I was dating Andy, who worked at the Half Price Books near my house. I stopped in after work one fine afternoon to make goo-goo eyes at him, and his boss complained. Andy handed me Dead Until Dark and told me to go wait in the bar down the strip mall.
I barely noticed when he came in. I was hooked.
Andy had some troubles, vanished, reappeared twice, then vanished for good. Sookie, on the other hand, has been with me, amusing me, sometimes making me mad, for twelve years. So thanks, Andy, for the longest relationship of my entire life! Even though it wasn't with you.
And now Miss Charlaine has snapped that branch. She's whacked me in the readerly kneecaps. She's stuck the shiv into my pageturnin' shoulder. And, after I get my copy of After Dead this coming October, the what's-next wrapup of everyone in the Sookieverse's life or undeath, it will be all True Blood all the time.
That's not a bad thing, I hasten to add, since there exists the possibility in each episode that either Alexander Skarsgard or Ryan Kwanten will get naked, but the series is real, real, real different from the books. And I loved the books first. And I will miss the books.
I'm past the point in life where re-reading stuff seems like a good use of my eyeblinks. I'm well and truly past middle age...not a lot of 106-year-old men around...and there are squillions of books I want to read. Lucky me, in a weird way, that I can't work anymore as that leaves time to read. Not much money, but time! None of which I want to use re-reading even the most wonderful books.
The events of this book are fast-paced. The people from Sookie's past are effectively deployed to move the plot along while also tying up the loose ends. The entire ending made me smile through tears. The last line? Well, sentimental old fustilugs that I am, that last line was a dam-breaker.
Yeah. I am FOR SURE gonna miss these books, all Sookie's Jesusiness aside, all the moments I've thought Harris had lost interest or lost the thread or just lost me, all the emotional rollercoaster-ride queasiness...all of it is over now.
Unlike every other relationship of my life, this one ends well. I'm smiling because it happened, if also sniveling a bit because it's over. It's been a terrific ride.
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The Publisher Says: Sookie Stackhouse finds it easy to turn down the request of former barmaid Arlene when she wants her job back at Merlotte’s. After all, Arlene tried to have Sookie killed. But her relationship with Eric Northman is not so clearcut. He and his vampires are keeping their distance…and a cold silence. And when Sookie learns the reason why, she is devastated.
Then a shocking murder rocks Bon Temps, and Sookie is arrested for the crime.
But the evidence against Sookie is weak, and she makes bail. Investigating the killing, she’ll learn that what passes for truth in Bon Temps is only a convenient lie. What passes for justice is more spilled blood. And what passes for love is never enough...
My Review: Parting is such sweet sorrow. Sookie is not to have another annual entry in the Sookieverse after this.
I got my first Sookieverse bite in 2001. I was dating Andy, who worked at the Half Price Books near my house. I stopped in after work one fine afternoon to make goo-goo eyes at him, and his boss complained. Andy handed me Dead Until Dark and told me to go wait in the bar down the strip mall.
I barely noticed when he came in. I was hooked.
Andy had some troubles, vanished, reappeared twice, then vanished for good. Sookie, on the other hand, has been with me, amusing me, sometimes making me mad, for twelve years. So thanks, Andy, for the longest relationship of my entire life! Even though it wasn't with you.
And now Miss Charlaine has snapped that branch. She's whacked me in the readerly kneecaps. She's stuck the shiv into my pageturnin' shoulder. And, after I get my copy of After Dead this coming October, the what's-next wrapup of everyone in the Sookieverse's life or undeath, it will be all True Blood all the time.
That's not a bad thing, I hasten to add, since there exists the possibility in each episode that either Alexander Skarsgard or Ryan Kwanten will get naked, but the series is real, real, real different from the books. And I loved the books first. And I will miss the books.
I'm past the point in life where re-reading stuff seems like a good use of my eyeblinks. I'm well and truly past middle age...not a lot of 106-year-old men around...and there are squillions of books I want to read. Lucky me, in a weird way, that I can't work anymore as that leaves time to read. Not much money, but time! None of which I want to use re-reading even the most wonderful books.
The events of this book are fast-paced. The people from Sookie's past are effectively deployed to move the plot along while also tying up the loose ends. The entire ending made me smile through tears. The last line? Well, sentimental old fustilugs that I am, that last line was a dam-breaker.
Yeah. I am FOR SURE gonna miss these books, all Sookie's Jesusiness aside, all the moments I've thought Harris had lost interest or lost the thread or just lost me, all the emotional rollercoaster-ride queasiness...all of it is over now.
Unlike every other relationship of my life, this one ends well. I'm smiling because it happened, if also sniveling a bit because it's over. It's been a terrific ride.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
Ah yes, the final Sookie book. I'm actually comfortable with how this all played out. the series was bumpy there in the middle but this book was a decent ending.
I think it's funny how upset fans are about this book. Did you not read the last one? Are you really all that surprised? Granted, I rolled my eyes, and it didn't end the way I WANTED it to, but I can't say I didn't see it coming.
The plot was all over the place, per usual, but it still seems more coherent than the last season of True Blood. Glad to know this series is tied up.
The plot was all over the place, per usual, but it still seems more coherent than the last season of True Blood. Glad to know this series is tied up.
-1 star because it didn't end how I wanted it to. Minus the ending the book was good.
I'm not rating this because I don't know what to rate it... I'm shocked at the ending, mainly because it was so ****** obvious from the first book and I don't like it. ******* was never a favorite character and quite frankly it should have been *******
I can't believe I read 13 books for this ending! If this is how they finally wrap True Blood I will be angry...
I can't believe I read 13 books for this ending! If this is how they finally wrap True Blood I will be angry...