I'm having a hard time with the multitude of characters and their insignificant roles in the books. New people are always introduced, but few are taken away. I get the feeling that I'm in a cluttered room with tons of attention hungry persons. My attention is always being pulled this way or that. I think this stems from the never ending story threads. I've received no closure in any plot thus far, and am getting anxious, and therefore ornery, about seeing it through to the end. For example: The whole Debbie Pelt sideline. I thought I'd been set free from this insignificant (but time consuming plot) with Debbie's death, but I was wrong. I hadn't anticipated the story being strung along with the appearance of Debbie's family. I can't help but feel that instead of coming up with new and exciting ideas, Charlaine is simply beating old storylines to death. Why do I continue reading this series, you ask? It's my fault really. I allowed myself to get drawn in and I'm trying to ride out the storm so I can get the closure I've been seeking. I'm on a roller coaster ride that I stopped enjoying some time ago, but I can't get off. Please Charlaine,...start wrapping some story lines up!!!! ( )

Definitely Dead (Southern Vampire Mysteries, Book 6) introduces readers to Quinn, the were-tiger and probably my least favorite character in the Southern Vampire Mysteries universe. Harris’ description of him doesn’t make him sound attractive at all, so what use is he to readers, right? I’m not a bra-burning feminist by any means, but even I couldn’t help cringing and feeling icky every single time he said “babe.” It wasn’t endearing at all.

Definitely Dead also goes into detail about vampire politics, which while intriguing while reading, only sounds ridiculous in hindsight. Yes, there is a Queen of Louisiana in this book. Starting from this book, I began to feel like there are just too many minor characters to keep track of and it’s unrealistic (yes, even for vampire romance novels) for everyone to be tied through Sookie Stackhouse. ( )

Book 6 of the Sookie Stackhouse series, and this one was my least favorite of all.

First off, the book starts with a curve ball discussing cousin Hadley and left me wondering what I missed, if there was a book somewhere out there that was misplaced or I forgot about. I spent most of the book feeling like I missed out on a great Sookie adventure where she learns about her cousin Hadley, and yet there is nothing there to back it up, except this book.

On the plus side, Sookie gets another adventure by traveling to New Orleans and exploring her new relationship, which I know plays a big part in the next few books. However, I was least impressed with this one overall and have had a hard time motivating myself to move onto book 7, All Together Dead, for fear it will follow in its footsteps.

This is probably one of the best books in the series though i think it was added at a later date. At the end of Dead as a Doornail Eric told Sookie to keep a few days in March free for a conference, and the double Bellefleur wedding was being planed. We don't see any until the next book.

This is one place that Charlaine made a mistake. She has even said so on her website. Sookie's cousin Hadley had been mentioned in the background once or twice and Sookie didn't know anything about her. Now all of a sudden Sookie has to go to New Orleans to clean out her apartment. Charlaine's mistake was writing a short story on how Sookie found out about Hadley's Death and her relationship with the Queen of Louisiana. But all is forgiven in this book.

Sookie once again goes on a trip. For someone who has never been out of Bon Temps, she travels a lot more now. (About half the books have her going somewhere.) Quinn is back and we get to see him as a tiger. We meet some witches and see and ectoplasm reconstruction of Hadley's death which sounds really really cool in a grim sort of way. Sookie finds out why Bill came back to Bon Temps. And she has to deal with the family of Debbie Pelt. She manages all this and becomes the only wittness to the death of the King of Arkansas. What a life for a barmaid for Bon Temps. ( )

Yet another great story by Charlaine Harris. I love how the cover is a scene from the book, I find myself waiting to find it - especially when it is implied. Charlaine builds such great characters that you find yourself getting lost in the story and hanging on for what comes next.