(B+) 77% | GoodNotes: Story goes fairy (less fangy and hairy), a real Tinker-bellum, a ton of lore but unexplored—less showy, more a tell 'em.*Check out progress updates for detailed commentary: Progress updates:01/10/2026 - Preamble(1) So, now we're in the realm of books—from here until the end—where I barely remember anything.- It's all just one big blob, titles are just puns and don't mean anything, I don't know the reading order anymore, and I wouldn't be able to recall a single plot point e...

Most of the book I would have given 3.5 stars, but the battle and ending upped it to 4 stars. I've loved the fairy storyline, and also have really come to be Team Eric over Team Bill. On to the next!

True Blood book No. 9:
We've had a were war, a vampire war, so this one's the Fae war, and what a war! This one's very dark and has a few huge series' resolutions. Great episode, nine parts in, one doesn't expect a series to produce it's best story yet! Harris's trick is, that within her tales she truly conveys how super beings would relate, or should that be - not relate, to us mere mortals! 7 out of 12, Three Stars

2010 read

❤ 5 Dead and Gone Stars ❤ This book is action PACKED, Sookie needs protection from the fairies.Strange deaths, horrible deaths. And confusion of Love.It’s weird read this series because somethings happened in the TV True Blood and somethings didn’t. And once in a while they sync up. The whole fairies part still kind of baffles me. And why is Sookie still hung up on Bill only when he doesn’t something nice for her. Saving her life and all of a sudden he is a hero, Erik did that same thing and yet...

This was an okay Sookie story, although it was a bit dull in places.Sookie was once again in trouble in this story, although I have to say that putting lemon juice in water pistols to kill fairies was quite clever!The storyline in this was about Crystal being killed, and someone trying to kill Sookie, as well as some romance with an old favourite! The first half of the book dragged a bit, but the second half was better, and I really liked the romance!!The ending to this left Sookie still in dang...

(B+) 77% | Good
Notes: Slightly different writing style with heavier use of inner monologue and foreshadowing. Not really an improvement.

Book Nine. Sookie’s still going, even though nothing new has happened for at least five volumes now (being generous). This particular edition of her repetitive adventures recycles two oft-used Harris’ plot – a spate of random attacks and a war involving ‘Supes’. Both of these proceed as usual, although the latter does involve the hasty introduction of a horde of new characters, and a rushed explanation of their lineage. Given Harris’ has had eight previous books in which to launch some of these ...

***Spoiler Alert***I was okay with the book until about 20 pages to go and then all hell broke loose. What is the point of telling us Claudine is pregnant if you are going to kill her two pages later?!?! Just let Sookie, and us, think she is knitting a sweater for an elf, or gnome or whatever! We don't need two pregnant women killed in one book. I am not okay with how "eh" the deaths were taken in this book either. I hate the way Dawson's death was treated, and then the drug dealer rumor. Tray w...

It’s not the worst book ever written as some reviewers say, but it’s not that good either. Charlaine Harris failed to deliver what we all wanted to read about and over-delivered on what we didn’t really care for. What I mean is most of us keep reading this series primarily to find out who Sookie finally settles with. No matter what team you were on – Eric, Bill, Quinn, Sam – you expected some kind of resolution, at least temporary, to her love life. We got none of it. There was so little develop...

In the 9th Sookie book we are basically facing the fall-out from 2 revelations: That Sookie's Great-Grandfather is Fairy Royalty, and that the Were's have finally revealed themselves. Each has results ending in not very good things for Sookie, mainly kidnapping from psycho fairies who are responsible for her parents deaths (I always knew there had to be more to the flash flood) and Arlene plotting with the Fellowship to kill Sookie and string her up on a cross. There is also requisite murder tha...