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A review by warningvelocireader
Dead Ever After by Charlaine Harris
3.0
Sigh. I was prepared for the end of the story line because everyone's discontent was so ubiquitous. What I was not prepared for was how lackluster the end of the story line would be. It wasn't just the disquieting subject matter that failed to deliver. The way the end was written reminds me of a song that just fades out with the chorus on repeat...you didn't really write an ending. You just stopped writing the book.
Bill? Hello? He rats on Eric about Sam and then what...fades into oblivion with the suggestion that he will spend time with Karin in the woods? Bill and Sookie didn't work out, but, he deserved better than that.
And the Sam and Sookie thing...again. I knew this was coming. But, it felt sooo....blech. This is it - these guys are the end. Thirteen books we waited! And the consummation of their feelings for one another ends up with them having a very abrupt romp that lasts about two pages after Sookie stops in when getting her iPod? THAT IS THE BEST YOU COULD DO?! This was not how I wanted to see Sookie end up, but, if that was your goal, Ms. Harris, this scene should have been breathtaking and your readers should have been aching over the love these two shared. But, you cheaped out. I felt nothing.
Spoiler
We literally do not hear from Eric at all? I get that relationships end, but, I, the reader, was invested in their relationship as well. The only conclusion to that storyline came in book 12 when Eric abruptly leaves after Sookie saves Sam. I would have at least expected some kind of discussion. Instead, almost all contact from Eric comes through other characters. And what did Eric want out of the hidey-hole in Sookie's house? Was that stuff gone by the time Copely Carmichael was deposited there? If so and it was so inconsequential that you didn't even bother to tell us what it was...why mention it in the first place?Bill? Hello? He rats on Eric about Sam and then what...fades into oblivion with the suggestion that he will spend time with Karin in the woods? Bill and Sookie didn't work out, but, he deserved better than that.
And the Sam and Sookie thing...again. I knew this was coming. But, it felt sooo....blech. This is it - these guys are the end. Thirteen books we waited! And the consummation of their feelings for one another ends up with them having a very abrupt romp that lasts about two pages after Sookie stops in when getting her iPod? THAT IS THE BEST YOU COULD DO?! This was not how I wanted to see Sookie end up, but, if that was your goal, Ms. Harris, this scene should have been breathtaking and your readers should have been aching over the love these two shared. But, you cheaped out. I felt nothing.