Words by Sooz

Charlaine Harris made it official today when she posted on Facebook that Book 13 Dead After All  in the Sookie Stackhouse series would be the last. It's never too early to start marketing for that book either. As you can see in Harris' post, the date of the release of the next and final book is May 2, 2013. With the way the last book Deadlocked  ended ( check out my review here ) it left Sookie's love life up in the air, but it seemed as though Sookie was leaning in a certain direction. Many of the comments on Harris' page were positive and don't want the series to end, but now just might be the right time. I've met several people who have stopped reading the books because the last three to four of them got kind of stale. Sookie's love life was always at the center of the books, but some readers have given up and don't care to see how it ends. Perhaps they're just waiting for the spoilers. What do you think? Was this the right t...

When a book comes out that is part of a series, there is a little bit of excitement around release day. We're meeting up with old friends and want to know what they have been up to. When Charlaine Harris announced there would be just two books left in the True Blood series some time last year, it meant some of our friends – Sookie, Eric, Tara, Jason and others of Bon Temp – would eventually be leaving. The second to last book Deadlocked recently came out. I tore through it in about two days not able to relish in some of the final moments with the characters. Sookie is at a crossroads – but when is she not - figuring out her relationships with her boyfriend and relatives. Most of her human friends are either getting married or having children, which seems to be weighing on Sookie's mind. This version of catching up with Sookie meant getting to hang out with her as she cleaned and ran errands. There was not much action or romance, which is something True Bl...