Basic
Summary: After the past couple of years of craziness
in Sookie Stackhouse’s life she is finally coming into her own as an adult
figuring out what she wants in life. Not
before Arlene Fuller is let out of jail and comes to Merlotte’s looking for a
job, after Sookie refuses to hire her, Arlene turns up dead. When some of the evidence starts to point
towards Sookie almost everyone in town has her back, except for her boyfriend
Vampire Eric. He hasn’t been around much
lately and when Sookie finds out she is heartbroken and devastated. This book gives a nice ending to a long story
but not without a mystery to solve and secrets to dig up.
Since
this
book is a little controversial and a lot of people who read the series refuse
to read this book I’m going to do this one a little differently. I will say that there will be spoilers
ahead!! Just warning you now!
I get why people don’t like this book,
or the last three books in this series for that matter. They have definitely taken on a different
tone then the other books and for some that’s not okay. I totally get that because I feel the same
way, the first I’d say 10 books were just full of love, heartache, murder,
blood, tears, laughter, happiness, sadness, and I can go on and on. The last three book were more even and
sometimes a little depressing and we as readers weren’t used to that when it
came to this series.
For the first three books we were
salivating for book four waiting and waiting for Eric and Sookie to finally
hook up and when they finally did it was glorious. Seriously one of the best scenes in the
entire series is the shower scene in book four and there are millions out there
that agree with me. People who are fans
of this series knew how amazing Eric was and were defending him when True Blood
started and he came off as a total asshole in season one because we were all
head over heels in love with him. Then
it’s all ripped away because Eric can’t remember and he’s all mad and frustrated
and we have to wait till book nine for them to be together for real. Through all this Eric and Sookie saved each
other’s life numerous times and we craved scenes they were in together. It became obvious though towards the end of
book 11 and into book 12 that things were not looking up for Eric and
Sookie. And that sucked big time!!!
Not only that but the way the stories
were written were kind of negative, and Sookie’s view on the world seemed very
bleak compared to book one. I get that
it was the natural evolution of a girl who started out wide eyed and innocent
and ended a little jaded with serious bumps and bruises along the way. But the last couple books didn’t share the
same appeal they earlier ones did and that made people very angry.
Now for this book, I get why people
are upset with Charlaine Harris and it sucks that as an author she couldn’t
continue her public tour of the book like she could for others because were so
upset about the ending but I think you have to look at the big picture. She put a warning in the book before you
start reading that the ending she wrote is true to Sookie and can’t please
everyone, so going into this you have to keep this in mind. Obviously this series isn’t the real world,
but in order to love Sookie as much as we all do there are things about her we
can all relate to and as a person who has been beat up and almost killed as
much as she has we would all just want a drama free life at the end the
day. Sookie’s life changes in book
thirteen and in some ways for the better but in other ways for the worse. You don’t just mourn the end of this series;
you mourn the end of Eric and Sookie’s relationship and the end of Fangtasia as
we know it. It’s not just sad that her
relationship is over, it’s also sad that everything we have become familiar
with in this series changes as well.
Eric is forced to move away and live a not happy existence for a very
long time, Pam has now become Sheriff, Quinn has moved on and is ready to
become a father, Jason is starting a new marriage and new life, Claude is pure
evil, Bill has met someone new, and Sookie is just looking for some peace.
Realistically Eric and Sookie’s
relationship would never have lasted anyway, as much as we would’ve all loved
to see Sookie become a vampire and live forever with Eric that wasn’t going to
happen. This isn’t Twilight people!!!!!!
Charlaine Harris said over and over again Sookie would live out a human existence
so you can’t be surprised when she actually does! Eric
had a delusional future in his mind, and didn’t really take Sookie’s needs into
consideration and that is what ultimately broke them up. Am I happy with whom Sookie chose to be with
at the end? No way, but I get it. It’s what needed to happen to bring and
ending to this series witch peace not with chaos.
Charlaine wrote this book beautifully
bringing in old characters that haven’t been around for a long time back in a
way that it isn’t too “this is the finale so everyone has to be included no
matter if it ruins the storyline”. Arlene’s
murder is a good mystery for the last book because it wasn’t too hard to solve,
so it didn’t take up the entire plot of the book. I also like in this book the point of views
change from chapter to chapter; it adds a new twist a long series that keeps
you interested.
I get why people don’t want to read
this book, but do it at least just for the closure. I want to thank Charlaine for creating this
crazy world in Bon Temps of Vampires, Shifters, and Werewolves. Thank you for creating amazing characters
like Sookie, Eric, Quinn, Bill, Alcide, Sam, Arlene, and so many more. We have all fallen so much in love with this
series that we take it very personally and I guess that is the positive side of
all these people getting so mad. They’re
mad because they love these books so much.
It’s sad its over but I think the end of the series was done beautifully
and I will probably re-read these books several times for years to come
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