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Dead Ever After
by Charlaine Harris
Possible spoilers, read with caution!
I wanted to love this book, I really really did. I was so quick to dismiss the amount of bad reviews, telling myself they were probably from people who only read the books after watching the show True Blood and didn't get the complete differences these things are. Then I remembered a few interviews I've read and Charlaine's blog, which seemed to me that she was saying in the nicest way that she was sick of this series. Plus the last few books weren't as good as the older ones.
All I feel after reading this is disappointment. The Sookie Stackhouse series has been one of my favorites for years. It's one of the few series I've re-read a few times and enjoy each time I do. But this ending, it didn't feel at all like the last book in a series should feel. I felt like I could feel the author's utter contempt for this universe she created that she no longer enjoyed writing. Which makes me sad.
Some people were upset that Sookie doesn't end up with Eric. I remember reading an interview a few years ago where Charlaine Harris said Sookie wouldn't end up with a vampire, which wasn't surprising to me. Eric is kind of a dick. He never really took what Sookie wanted into consideration, even though all she's talked about through out the series is how she does not want to be a vampire. The relationship with Sam has been hinted at through all books, and is who I (correctly) guessed she would end up with. The only person I liked more than Sam for Sookie was Alcide.
My biggest issues with this book are as follows:
*We don't get any type of action of forward plot movement until almost 100 pages in. The book is only 350ish pages long. The whole beginning was Sookie going to work, Sookie running errands, Sookie going shopping with her friend. I honestly don't mind times like this in books, but with this being the last in the series, I would have expected the plot to become apparent sooner, especially since it's part of the description on the book jacket. I could have accepted 50 pages of this type of stuff, but 100? In the last book in the series? It made me sad.
*After waiting and wondering who Sookie would end up with, it ended with a whimper not a bang. There was one kind of boring sex scene, and at the end they are not really together, just taking things slow. Seriously? This is the end to one of my favorite series? She gets the guy, her best friend no less, and they don't even go for it? I am oozing disappointment.
*The plot wasn't that interesting. I also didn't care for the multiple character points of view. Plus it was hella weird that two people we haven't heard from in like 8 books would all the sudden be hell bent on revenge on Sookie, for pretty shaky reasons at that.
The only reason this didn't get one star was because I loved seeing from Amelia, Barry, Mr. Catalidies, and Diantha again & I have respect for anyone who can write the way Mrs. Harris can, especially in the earlier books in this series. I think she must have been pressured to continue the series past the point where she enjoyed the characters because of the success of True Blood. So I feel a little sorry for her for that. I just wish we had gotten a better goodbye with Sookie and the whole Bon Temps crew.
I wanted to love this book, I really really did. I was so quick to dismiss the amount of bad reviews, telling myself they were probably from people who only read the books after watching the show True Blood and didn't get the complete differences these things are. Then I remembered a few interviews I've read and Charlaine's blog, which seemed to me that she was saying in the nicest way that she was sick of this series. Plus the last few books weren't as good as the older ones.
All I feel after reading this is disappointment. The Sookie Stackhouse series has been one of my favorites for years. It's one of the few series I've re-read a few times and enjoy each time I do. But this ending, it didn't feel at all like the last book in a series should feel. I felt like I could feel the author's utter contempt for this universe she created that she no longer enjoyed writing. Which makes me sad.
Some people were upset that Sookie doesn't end up with Eric. I remember reading an interview a few years ago where Charlaine Harris said Sookie wouldn't end up with a vampire, which wasn't surprising to me. Eric is kind of a dick. He never really took what Sookie wanted into consideration, even though all she's talked about through out the series is how she does not want to be a vampire. The relationship with Sam has been hinted at through all books, and is who I (correctly) guessed she would end up with. The only person I liked more than Sam for Sookie was Alcide.
My biggest issues with this book are as follows:
*We don't get any type of action of forward plot movement until almost 100 pages in. The book is only 350ish pages long. The whole beginning was Sookie going to work, Sookie running errands, Sookie going shopping with her friend. I honestly don't mind times like this in books, but with this being the last in the series, I would have expected the plot to become apparent sooner, especially since it's part of the description on the book jacket. I could have accepted 50 pages of this type of stuff, but 100? In the last book in the series? It made me sad.
*After waiting and wondering who Sookie would end up with, it ended with a whimper not a bang. There was one kind of boring sex scene, and at the end they are not really together, just taking things slow. Seriously? This is the end to one of my favorite series? She gets the guy, her best friend no less, and they don't even go for it? I am oozing disappointment.
*The plot wasn't that interesting. I also didn't care for the multiple character points of view. Plus it was hella weird that two people we haven't heard from in like 8 books would all the sudden be hell bent on revenge on Sookie, for pretty shaky reasons at that.
The only reason this didn't get one star was because I loved seeing from Amelia, Barry, Mr. Catalidies, and Diantha again & I have respect for anyone who can write the way Mrs. Harris can, especially in the earlier books in this series. I think she must have been pressured to continue the series past the point where she enjoyed the characters because of the success of True Blood. So I feel a little sorry for her for that. I just wish we had gotten a better goodbye with Sookie and the whole Bon Temps crew.