If you think your family relationships are complicated, think again: you haven't seen anything like the ones in Bon Temps, Louisiana. Sookie Stackhouse is dealing with a whole host of family problems, ranging from her own kin (a non-human fairy and a telepathic second cousin) demanding a place in her life, to her lover Eric's vampire sire, an ancient being, who arrives with Eric's 'brother' in tow at a most inopportune moment. And Sookie's tracking down a distant relation of her ailing neighbour (and ex), Vampire Bill Compton. In addition to the multitude of family issues complicating her life, the werewolf pack of Shreveport has asked Sookie for a special favour, and since Sookie is an obliging young woman, she agrees. But this favour for the wolves has dire results for Sookie, who is still recovering from the trauma of her abduction during the Fairy War.
Really wasn't a fan of this book. Nothing really seemed to happen in it. I felt no real fear for Sookie's safety when danger came, as she is always saved. And furthermore, it just felt like a rehash of all the other plot points--trouble with the Weres and Sookie being forced to a meeting, Eric and Pam needing saved, trouble with the faeries, and so on. There was nothing new or exciting here.
And to top it off, I actually rolled my eyes when the tsarevitch, Alexei Romanov was introduced as a vampire, who just happened to be Eric's brother. It just seemed like an entirely unnecessary and cheap plotline.
I'm hoping the next book is better, but the series really has seemed to go downhill. I'm still not over how big of a letdown Sookie's at-last romance with Eric was! I was waiting for the entire series for this and it was just so anticlimactic. This book didn't really do anything to rectify their love life or even make it appealing--it was just so bland. Unfortunately, so was the rest of this book.
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