Product Description

New in the “addicting” New York Times bestselling series featuring Sookie Stackhouse.

After the natural disaster of Hurricane Katrina and the manmade explosion at the vampire summit, everyone—human and otherwise—is stressed, including Louisiana cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse, who is trying to cope with the fact that her boyfriend Quinn has gone missing.

It’s clear that things are changing—whether the weres and vamps of her corner of Louisiana like it or not. And Sookie—Friend to the Pack and blood-bonded to Eric Northman, leader of the local vampire community—is caught up in the changes.

In the ensuing battles, Sookie faces danger, death, and once more, betrayal by someone she loves. And when the fur has finished flying and the cold blood finished flowing, her world will be forever altered.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #795 in Books
• Published on: 2008-05-06
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 368 pages

From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. Harris outdoes herself in this pivotal eighth Sookie Stackhouse novel (after 2007's All Together Dead), packing the story full of romantic tension and supernatural action. Having barely survived a catastrophic vampire hotel explosion, Sookie's back at work in Bon Temps, La., serving vintage blood and waiting tables at Merlotte's, a vampire bar. Participating in a friend's wedding and fending off the advances of her vampire ex-lover, Bill, and her blood-bonded pal, Eric, leaves Sookie chafing over the recent lack of communication from Quinn, her weretiger boyfriend. When a violent Were power struggle erupts as Vegas vampires attempt to take over Louisiana from disgraced queen Sophie-Anne, Sookie dives into the middle of it, determined to help her shape-changing, blood-drinking friends. Harris provides many fun twists, most significantly Sookie's meeting with her fae great-grandfather, Niall Brigant, which paves the way for a shock ending that will delight longtime fans. (May)
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Review
“[A] deliciously fiendish…increasingly riotous series.”
—Dallas Morning News

“Layered.”
—Entertainment Weekly

“[A] delightful Southern vampire detective series.”
—Denver Post

“I love the imaginative, creative world of Charlaine Harris!”
—Christine Feehan

“With…an audacious wink of her eye Harris creates a world that is both a weird possibility and a wild ride”
—The Anniston Star (AL)

"Charlaine Harris”
—Rocky Mountain News

”Fans of Laurell K. Hamilton’s Anita Blake…should cotton to Sookie Stackhouse”
—Publishers Weekly

”A style that’s much more fun than Anne Rice”
—Monroe (LA) News- Star

”A thoroughly engaging series”
—Locus

About the Author
Charlaine Harris writes both fantasy and mysteries. She is an avid reader and spends a huge amount of time watching fast-pitch softball.

Customer Reviews

The best one yet.
Sookie gets better with each book. I can't
wait to see what HBO does with the series.

Still a winner
I have read the critics of this installment of the series, and see where they are coming from. However, I enjoyed the various story lines. I thought it was a nice switch and made me eager to read the next book in the series. I was worried that this series was turning into the Anita Blake series, where every book after Obsidian Butterfly, was the same story but with different names. I would not recommend reading this book as the first in the series, but I felt it delivered.

Could've Used A Plot Transfusion To Perk It Up
I enjoy this series as much as the next person, am excited to see the series, 'Tru Blood' next month on HBO, but felt this particular book was pretty average. My problem with it was that the series are called Southern Vampire Mysteries, and this didn't have much of one. Yes Sookie finds some personal things out, and there's a murder or two, but like most everything in this book it all seems like random background noise. Characters that were integral before, now waltz on for one or two scenes that do nothing really to propel the plot, and instead just seem to help establish they're still around. Specifically Bill, Tara, and Jason. Look, for fans it's not a bad book, it just feels like a coda to the previous installment, and besides setting up what I assume will be a future plot point at the very end, the rest feels slightly, well, anemic.