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So I am cruzing right along in the Sookie books which is a good thing considering that the final book has been released and I haven't even bought it yet. I am looking forward to reading it and hopefully the ending doesn't suck! I don't read a story for this long to get a real world ending I want a happy ever after with Sookie and Eric, though I know that prolly won't happen! Any way that is still several books away so not an issue for discussion yet. So, the build up of a very busy book begins with Sookie discovering a new and interesting family member whom causes her to re-think her grandmothers sweet innocence. Turns out Sookie wasn't just a victim of a crazy gene mutation, her family is more paranormal than we originally thought and it explains why the giant douche Jason is so desirable to the opposite sex. This is not the only family revelation Sookie has in this book, turns out she has more family than she ever thought. Unfortunately or fortunately depending on your outlook she is not the only one with gifts passed down from her paranormal heritage. Quinn succumbs to his predicted fate, though later than guessed, in this book whomp whomp...out the door he goes because of his bat sh!t crazy family that will always come first in his life. Anyone whose dated a mama's boy/daddy's girl knows how unfun it can be to be considered second no matter what. The umbilical cord was not only reason Sookie tossed him out, after Rhodes Quinn just evaporated and we hear nothing for weeks, not saying he didn't have a good reason but what do you expect?! She can only assume he bailed on her and move on, but nooooooo he expects her to be waiting and pining after him for months with no word...men. Next hurdle, Sookie seems to have evolved from being the wrong place wrong time girl to the object of a lot of death plots girl; she is always on the brink of death in all of these books(otherwise where is the fun?) but it hasn't really been her fault up to now, it had to more to do with who/what she associates with. Now several people are actively seeking HER out not only as a vamp lover/ sympathizer but as a telepath and a meddler. She gets beaten up for these reasons often enough but this time around we see several groups of people looking for her specifically. Because of this I think at this point I will not only keep count of the times that Sookie gets beaten to a pulp, but also her numerous brushes with death. It's really kind of ridiculous when you see them all lined up and the time between each attempt. Considering Sookie is mortal and relatively fragile she had proven very hard to kill, maybe its just her good fortune or maybe it is the vampires and weres and fairies always hovering around her because she is not exactly a force to be reckoned with. I don't know what it is but I wish I had just a little of her luck to play the lotto! Finally there are the vampires and their mess of problems. We left the Queen legless, Andre dead, several dead sheriffs, and a very weakened state for the LA vamps. Well, somehow Sookie is once again caught in the middle of a dangerous situation, why she can't leave things alone or say no is beyond me, so a vamp war ends at her door. It ends better than expected but the violence is never ending
Good for the feminists Sookie holds her own sort of...if there is such a thing against supes
Rating~~2
**means that Sookie wasn't physically hurt
***Sookie is nearly *** Sookie is ambushed Beaten and bitten
shot by crazy Were at library during Were War
**Sookie is cornered by
legion of vampires
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