Dead in the Family; It Takes Two

Sookie was pretty badly beaten at the end of the last book, so she's slowly recovering, with Eric's help. Eric's maker, Appius, shows up with his latest child in tow: Alexi Romanov. Yes, that Romanov. Alexi is a bit nuts, and Appius is having a hard time controlling him, yet he doesn't want him to meet the true death. Appius was hoping Eric could help him, and so Eric is spending all his free time trying to rein in his brother and not piss off Victor, the King's regent in Louisiana. Victor has it out for Eric: he's tried to kill Sookie and Pam. Sookie's fairy cousin Claude comes to live with her. Since Naill has closed the portal between the human world and the Fae, Claude is lonely and says being around Sookie's trace of fairy blood helps them both. When Dermot shows up, Sookie is worried he's going to try to harm her, but it turns out Dermot was cursed (kind of like Eric back in book four) and he's actually really nice. Coleman, who was the father of Claudine's baby, is the bad fairy looking to kill Sookie, to get revenge since Claudine (and their unborn baby) died defending her. The battle in the end takes care of a lot of problems at once.

Something new! I only read it because it was pretty short and had lots of pictures, so it didn't take long. I don't really watch any of their shows anymore, I got tired of the same old formula (I'm feeling that way about a lot of reality shows I used to enjoy watching). For those of you who don't know, Jonathan and Drew Scott are twins who help clients buy fixer uppers and rehab them. They also have another show where they help clients fix up their homes to sell in order to buy newly renovated ones. And they have a third show where they compete against each other: they each buy a fixer upper and rehab it and whoever makes the most profit selling it wins. These two are pretty much on HGTV 24/7, and as a result I think they've spread themselves too thin. Maybe it's just me, they still seem pretty popular, although I expected this book to have a long waiting list at work but it didn't. It was pretty bland: they just recounted their childhoods, how they got started working early (age 7) and their big dreams of making it big: Jonathan in magic and Drew in basketball and acting, before ending up where they are now. Good for them, I guess, but reading about other people's success stories can be a drain, especially when your own life seems so shitty.