#100 Dead Ever After by Charlaine Harris

[missingvolume]

It took me a while to get my hands on this and I read it in one setting. In a way I am sorry for Sookie and all the heartache she has had in her life. I'm satisfied with the ending and I wonder if the fans that were so outraged by it were mixing their love of the TV show with the love of the books. There are some minor loose threads but nothing that left me stomping my feet wanting more chapters to the book.  I hope that she will still write short stories in this universe even if they are not about Sookie.

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[jmward14.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure it's the TV show as the fact that a certain party spent a substantial part of DEAD UNTIL DARK sleeping uninvited, unacknowledged and furry on Sookie's bed. I know that squicked me. I would've been okay if he'd been guarding the outside of the house, but having them hook up after that puts it into Edward Cullen territory. It's also rather disingenuous, since he was banned from her life the same way she later banned Bill, et al.
Banned them with roughly similar results. But hey, that's Charlaine's pattern. After a certain point, her series always take that left turn at Albuquerque. The classic example is what happened in the Aurora Teagarden mysteries. I also think it a mark of how invested folks get in her work that folks get so worked up about it. :-)

[missingvolume.livejournal.com]

Well at least with Sam, she has a life without worry about being turned furry or fangs. I wasn't really caring for how Eric had been treating her the last few books.

I haven't read the Aurora series but I know some people were upset with the ending of the Harper Connelly series. If it ever gets made into TV you can bet they change the love interest.

[jmward14.livejournal.com]

Re. Sam, I get that, but I still hoped for something better than "best of a bad lot". I haven't finished the Harper Connelly series. My local bookstores stopped carrying it after the first volume, which felt like a real warning sign. But hey, that's what libraries are for, right? :-)

[missingvolume.livejournal.com]

And there are only 3 more of them for you to read.

Well better Sam than she introduces a new player. Or even Hunter's dad which she did sorta nod at in passing in this book.

[jmward14.livejournal.com]

Too true. :-)