Summary:
Sookie's being dragged to the vampire summit in Rhodes, (I believe in Michigan, but it could be Illinois. One of the northern central states, anyway...) to be Queen Sophia-Anne's personal telepath. Her job is to keep a mental ear out, and try to learn what the other kings and queens (and their minions) are up to at this summit. In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, Louisiana is hurting, along with many other states in the Gulf area. Louisiana's vampire population is hard hit, too, and the Queen of Louisiana is no exception. Sophia-Anne's position is not only crippled due to the storm's abuse, she's being accused of unjustly killing her recently acquired husband for the sole purpose of getting her hands on his Arkansas territory. Sookie gets unhappily jammed up right in the middle of all this, with no consideration for the fact that she's got other pressing things at home, not least of which is her brother's wedding to a girl she doesn't care for at all, and her witch friend from New Orleans coming to stay at her house for a while as she works to rebuild more than just her home. Disaster is around every corner for Sookie, just another average day for poor Sook.
Thoughts:
Yes, I know. Another Sookie book. I'll branch out soon, I promise. I'm almost done with the series anyway! It's a good one, though. I really enjoyed it (shocker). Harris puts so many balls up in the air that I hardly know when another one's going to come down, let alone what's going to happen. This one had the return of the telepath Barry, who we hadn't seen since "Living Dead in Dallas," and it was interesting to see Sookie deal with another telepath. The reader is treated to more vampire lore, and a few extra bits for the other supernatural areas in Sookie's life too, which definitely helps Harris broaden her fantasy world. It was interesting, too, to see how Harris dealt with the Katrina issue. She didn't go into much detail, but the book did begin with a lot of talk about what had happened to Louisiana vamps thanks to the flooding. To be honest, this is near the top on my list of good books within the series. I will highly recommend this series to anyone who asks. It's a fun series (with no damn sparkly vampires.) with a lot going on, but never too much to handle. Good stuff.
Book 17 of 50
Pages:323
Genre:Mystery plus romance plus vampires equals Sookie!
Grade:A
Would I Recommend?:Once again, this is a read the whole series kind of book. There's too many things wrapped into this series to pick up in the middle.
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