Friday, October 27, 2017

Dead Ever After

The last Sookie Stackhouse book. Sigh. Not sure what I'm going to read now. I suppose I might actually have to start in on the pile of library books I have checked out!
Eric "divorces" Sookie so he can marry the Queen of Oklahoma. While I was sad about it, it only made sense. Sookie knew, deep down, that her relationship with Eric had a time limit, since she had no desire to become a vampire. Sookie is arrested for Arlene's murder, and Sam goes to Eric to ask for help bailing her out. Eric does, but on the condition that Sam not be with her, and Sam agrees, although it doesn't take long for him to break that promise. I think we all knew from book one that Sam and Sookie would end up in a relationship at some point, and I thought Charlaine Harris did a nice job once they finally did get together. Witch Amelia's dad, Copley Carmichael, made a pact with a devil in order to get his business back and destroy Sookie, so she had all kinds of people after her in this book. In the end, Claude returns from Faery and teams up with Steve Newlin and Johan Glassport (who was Queen Sophie-Anne's lawyer a million books ago) to kidnap Sookie and torture and kill her. Their plan is thwarted by the good people dancing at Stompin' Sally's (which sounds like an excellent place to visit, btw). It had as much of a happy ending as one of Sookie's books can. Harris did write a quick and dirty book called "After Dead", which basically just had a one or two page summary of each of the characters in the book and how their lives ended up.

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