“4) We find out the reason why every man, supernatural or normal, wants to get into Sookie’s pants, and it is totally bullshit. ….

5) Because of #4, does that mean that we readers can now write off Eric Northman as Sookie’s future lover man?”
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I think the answer for #5 - is that now we can expect Eric and Sookie to get together because previously Eric was leary about what kind of mysterious hold did Sookie have over him ? - was it some kind of secret magical spell ? etc.
Eric is someone who wants to know why, and to analyze the situation before getting more involved.
But, now that we know the reason why there is that elusive attraction - then Eric can get involved with Sookie. It is a ‘reasonable attraction’. Eric can accept this now. And I think the personalities of Sookie and of Eric are very compatible. They are both robust, healthy, and attractive people.

I hope Eric and Sookie do get together, and stay together.

Anywho, I also am a self-proclaimed Sookie fan. I’ve been reading the series since Dead Until Dark came out. I really love how Harris has kept the development of Sookie at a very natural pace and how human she seems. Her worries are realistic, and I love how she has been able to come up with the idea of introducing vamps to modern-day society and make it seem believable. Plus, major props that Harris hasn’t turned Sookie into a gang-banging slut with seven page sex scenes (take a lesson Laurell K. Hamilton) and has instead focused on character development and story arcs.

Definitely Dead’s pacing did seem a bit slow, the action waited until the last few pages and the “official” climax was no biggie. However, major shocker with Vampire Bill’s secret reveal, I was gasping at that one. I stopped liking Bill after the whole adultery thing, but I did like the fact that he still hung around and wasn’t completely written off. Quinn’s whole “hey, babe” thing is a bit annoying, but the possiblity of some d/s scenes is exciting (not to mention that the Sook won’t have to worry about eating garlic, being anemic, or having a chill in bed with that tiger). And c’mon, he’s BALD!! Baldies are hotties - Yul Brenner, Vin Diesel, Arnold Vosloo…*sigh*.

BTW, I never watched Firefly, but I LOVED Serenity. I bought the DVD, plus I have some beta tapes of the movie from a press package sent to my ex. Is there a season DVD out yet of Firefly? If so, I’m there.

But one thing I started to really notice this time around was the inconsistencies. Little ones, but things that bugged me, like Debbie being a legal assistant in one book and… well something else in a later one, can’t remember what though. Now I need to go check up on that werefox/werelynx thing. Plus I distinctly remember Alcide saying Debbie’s younger sister was NOT a shifter of any kind, and I didn’t think her parents were Weres. The inconsistencies aren’t big enough to turn me off to the series, but the little details bug me, because they’re part of what make the world so believable, and it jars me out of the world when I notice them.

Bam, I kinda liked Quinn. (Though the babe thing was annoying.) He seemed like the first guy who was interested in Sookie without some weird ulterior motive. I really didn’t think Bill’s character got assassinated, because I was totally over him by the first chapter of the second book, and he really didn’t seem like all that wonderful of a guy in the first book. Of course maybe I just like Quinn because I love cats and he turns into a big ol’ kitty? But no, because so does Micah and I hate him with a passion that matches your own.

OMG, longest comment ever, sorry about that, done now!

Speaking of sad, ask me how much Firefly trivia and dialogue I’ve got retained in my noggin.

Debbie, Calvin, Jason, and Crystal are shifters not werewolves. Alcide is a werewolf and I wish she’d have made that coupling better.

Debbie - Were-fox in this book. I could swear though, that, in DTTW that she has Debbie say that she turns into a lynx.

Jason, Crystal, Calvin, and the rest of HotShot are were-panthers.

I vote for Eric all the way. Bill gives me the creepy crawlies, and always has. He’s just too, I don’t know, but I don’t like him much.

Bill’s new girlfriend was introduced in the anthology “Bite”.

I also agree that this is not a stand alone like all the others in the series. And you almost need to read the short story in the anthology to follow some of this.

And can some one explain why Claude is in the begining of this? Other than the fact he was in the short story?

And now that I have proven myself to be a HUGE geek I’ll sign off and head over to add your blog as a link from mine.

I’d prefer it if you did, thank you!

I have just recently discovered this blog and am enjoying it very much!