Sookie doesn't have a steady love interest in this and she doesn't sleep with anyone (euphemistically speaking), but seven supernatural men are physically affectionate with her. Someone is shooting shapeshifters and Alcide gets Sookie involved with werewolf politics. And Lily Bard shows up with a companion trying to solve a case in which Sookie done it; a slightly strange crossover since Lily lives in a world without vampires and mind reading (at least so far). ( )

In this book Sookie Stackhouse must try and find out who's shooting the Shifters of Louisiana. Enjoyable, but not as riveting as some of Harris' other Stackhouse books. ( )

Someone's gunning down the weres, and Sookie is determined to find out who it is, for the sake of her friends and for her brother whom some in the Hotshot community suspects.

In this Fifth installation of the series, Sookie found herself embroiled in Were politics as Alcide requested her help in the fight for the pack leadership. What this would lead to might eventually jeopardize her relationship with the weres and Alcide.

At the same time, Fangtasia has a new bartender, yet again. He's hot and abled, and Eric has suggested he helps out Merlotte's when Sam got shot and needed a bartender that could protect Sookie.

We find Sookie finding out more about the supernaturals of the world and how they function, learning as she is learning about them. She discovers how the pack leadership is chosen - via a contest. She is there to "help" Alcide's father with his political struggles. Inadvertently, things go awry for both Sookie and the Weres. To complicate things further, Calvin Norris is still attempting to woo Sookie, and hoping he could make her love him.

I am really enjoying this series. It's fun, exciting, somewhat scary and yet all sexy. Unlike the genres of vampire novels/series I have read before, it's incorporating a whole bunch of supernatural world into one - with an unlikely protagonist who's learning about these all as much as we are. Not to mention, the very much enjoyable vampire humour :)

It does get incredibly upsetting when we realise, yet again, that people around Sookie can't be trusted, when Sookie's talent and aid ends up going against her and when she loses her friends.

All in all, a good book! ( )

In the fifth installment of the Sookie Stackhouse mysteries there is a sniper on the loose who is shooting shift-shapers. Sookie, everyone's favorite telepath, is especially worried as her brother, Jason, was recently bitten by a were-panther, making him one also. He is at risk of being shot and Sookie is also concerned that the were community will think Jason is the shooter, angry at what happened to him. The police can't find a link because the are unaware that there are shape-shifters, much less that they are being shot in their animal form.



Add to that, Sookie's house has been burned down and her boss, a shape-shifter was shot. Sookie's friend and former potential romantic interest, Alcide, a Were (were-wolf), wants Sookie present as the Were's have a ceremony to determine to next pack leader. Vampire Eric agrees to lend his club's bartender to replace Sookie's injured boss. But on one condition; Sookie has to tell Eric everything that happened between them during the period when he lost his memory. Sookie tells him, Eric is speechless.



I really enjoyed this installment as we get further into the supernatural community. This book focuses more on Sookie alone and her relationship with men take more of a back seat. Vampire Bill has only a cameo appearance. ( )