And no one has ever embodied a character more than Johanna Parker. Let me begin by saying that I am a huge fan of Sookie. Before I end this, I must offer Sookie some advise: If a vampire is in your house, about to eat your fairy relative who is injured & unconscious, RESEND HIS INVITATION! Team Alcide.don't even get me started! I have only 2000 characters in this review! Let's just say, I was actually embarrassed for Ms.Harris at this point. Team Bill, yah, let's put Sookie naked & in his hidey hole! Team Sam, let's throw them him a bone too. I mean, the girl isn't bald! The ends were a little singed!! It's very obvious that Harris has been given the green light to use Bubba's real name & she's certainly taking advantage of it! (Getting that word count) Harris is trying to keep ALL fans happy. OK, good starter, lots of action coming.well, that scene lasted a few minutes & leads into an hour of Sookie whining about her singed hair & everyone trying to fix it. Cleaning the attic.who didn't know that was going to turn out? (I'll try not to give any spoilers, yet still complain about certain scenes.) The bar is fire bombed. No imagination! It was SO predictable! Just because you're a best selling author doesn't mean that you can turn out any gibberish & it'll be brilliant. Do you remember when you were a kid & you waited til the last minute to do your homework? It's the night before a big essay is due, or the morning of, & you hurry to do it, making sure you reach that word count that the teacher assigned? That's this book! No thought went into it. The past few books, the pace has picked up & the snowball is plummeting downhill at an avalanche's speed. After book 4, it's been a slow decline downhill. I give it 2 stars because it's 100% better than book 10, but still worlds away from the brilliance of the first 4 books.

So that tells us that if people would leave actual ratings based on the book, it would score a LOT less.

It already had around 25-5 star ratings, on a 10.5 hour book. Angie (Brandon's Wife) I purchased this book 2 hours after it became available.

Dead reckoning by charlaine harris