Harris adds so many new characters that it's very confusing, and of course, all of these new people have odd names that we can't keep up with.

She's like a disrespectful wild teenage girl. Our sweet virginal Sookie now lusts over every man in sight, acting on those ideas at times, and constantly complains and snaps at our hero Eric. My opinion, stop at book 4 and cherrish the Sookie & Eric that we all grew to love, because Charlaine Harris has done nothing but ruin them. The first 4 books of this series were amazing! But unfortunately, #5 is where it starts going downhill, and there's no looking up through out book 8.

I wish that the other books were also available at Audible! One of the most interesting things about this universe is that the people accept that vampires exist but refuse to admit that shapeshifters, witches and magic also exist! The recording is excellent with the reader doing a good job with the different voices. Sookie's brother Jason now turns into a werepanther during the full moon and someone is shooting the shapeshifters of BonTon. And Alcide, a werewolf, wants to marry her but he also wants to help his father become the next packmaster of Shreveport. Calvin, a werepather from an isolated and very strange small town, is courting her. Sam, Sookie's boss, is a shapeshifter and interested (but only after she starting dating Bill). Eric, Head vampire in the area and Bill's boss, desperately wants to know what happened when he had amnesia and stayed with Sookie (book #3). She is definitely not seeing her first boyfriend, Vampire Bill. After having no love life for most of her life (the local men would rather think she's nuts rather than telepathic), Sookie's current love life is a mess. Sookie Stackhouse, the telepathic barmaid, has been dragged into vampire politics before (and hated it) and now is about to be heavily involved in werewolf politics - the succession of the packmaster of Shreveport. Harris has created an intrecate polical structure for the different supernaturals ('supes')who either hate, ignore or tolerate the other supes with the vampires being the most organized. however, it's much more enjoyable to read the others first, so that the interactions between the major and minor characters are clear. Harris has created a fascinating universe in which the vampires have come out of the coffin, but the shapeshifters, fairies and others definitely have not! This is the 4th in the series and can be read without reading the other books. Telepathic barmaid, shapeshifters, vampires!

Definitely dead by charlaine harris