Sookie is back! Major change is afoot in leadership in the vampire community of Louisiana, and Sookie Stackhouse, your average, run-of-the-mill telepath, is once again in the middle of it whether she likes it or not. Sookie’s romantic interests are also increasingly complicated since her boyfriend Quinn is MIA, her ex-boyfriend Bill seems to be trying to win her back, and she is having trouble denying an attraction to Eric.

I was unimpressed by the first 1/3 of this book, but thankfully the story picked up satisfactorily after that. I never cared much for Quinn, so I’m glad he’s out of the picture!

This wasn’t my favorite novel in this series, but I still enjoyed it. Charlaine Harris gave readers a bit of a departure from her normal formula of having events in the book build up to one grand conclusion/event, instead she gave us little vignettes that culminated in major changes in the supernatural community. It will be interesting to see how these changed play out over the next couple of novels.