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I'd say there might be spoilers in this but honestly at this point who cares? It's nothing new. The whole entire series is spoiled. I knew it would not be Eric. Harris herself has said she could not understand why fans liked Eric so much, in spite of the magnanimous way he is portrayed by Askars, which in itself means nothing to me since I read Eric before I watched Eric. To answer your question Harris, we like Eric so much because Sookie likes Eric so much. Duh. What a slap in the face of Sookie, that she is so stupid to fall in love with a character that the writer herself despises. Way to go Harris, way to go. I think you may have delved deep into your own personality when you created the vampire, sucking the life out of everything good and bright, making money off the weak, with no conscience, no care for your actions and behavior, and then hiding in the dark in the face of your critics. No book tour here for her, it's no wonder at all really. But it goes part and parcel with the ending for Sookie, lackluster, boring and moving right back to square 1 where Sookie was from the very first book, in Bon Temps, with Sam, at a bar, reading the simple minds of it's patrons. There is no character growth except easement of her financial woes and the possibility of creating another life, so dismal, with such a terrible gift that it has to be hidden, suppressed and god forbid, used for the benefit of the host. What made Sookie so special and so entertaining is completely lost. She has been reduced to a wine swilling, trucker mouthed, spineless and directionless slut. I wish she, at the end, she would have woken from the Rat's beating, with Sam having run them off, in effect saving her, and have the rest of it having been a dream, like the ending fight sequence of the Twilight Movie. This is what would have happened to you, Sookie, if Sam did not come along and save you from the Rattray's. That could at least explain the utter lack of character development of Sookie. She would be exactly where Harris wanted her to be, with Sam at Merlotte's with no physical or emotional scars that she earned and now carries for absolutely no reason whatsoever. Never have I been more disappointed in a character. It's not worse than Anita Blake, it's just not. But to be frank and honest, I really don't care who Sookie ended up with because Harris succeeded in her goal of making us all hate the woman Sookie becomes or fails to become really. It's hard to have an investment in the future of a character you could not care less about. And after this end, who could care? The last 4 books were so lacking and so poorly written that you could not be mistaken if you thought that True Blood, the TV, show was not effecting the story arc in Bon Temps. So much of what Harris should have done in this series could not be done, for fear of killing the fan base of the show. I get it, completely. Does that make it OK for me? Get rid of the utter disappointment, the betrayal I feel at having shelled out each year for the latest book, waiting on pins and needles for each one and devouring it in a matter of hours? No. Will it make me purchase another Harris book, as I read now she is starting another series? No way. I no longer trust her. I feel completely ripped off. I think she made a very poor business decision in terms of her fans, while it was so obviously lucrative for her. She sold us out when she sold the rights of the Sookieverse to HBO. Then she beat us over the head with the lies, the deception and the huge paycheck, by releasing crap after crap, 4 times then wrapped it up with more poorly written crap. She lost creative control. So all the fans have to go on was her interview opinions on characters and story arcs, no longer could her writing be trusted. It is the most blatant, backhanded, two faced talking you can do as a writer. Write one thing for your characters, then say in an interview it means something completely different and we her loyal fans just don't get it. I get it, you don't care about Sookie anymore. Well guess what? I don't care about Sookie anymore either. Mission accomplished. It's too bad really. I will never get that time back or the trust I so faithlessly placed in Harris as a writer and a care taker of my most favorite characters. I am crying now, not because of Sookies's ending, but because of her utter lack of place anymore in my literary endeavors. She's gone, but not really. She's just not at all who I thought she was. I wish she would have died so my grief could at least feel warranted. So, for me this series ends at book 8, and part of Book 9, up to Bills should be death. He should have died, that Rat Bustard. He should not get to be friends with the woman he abused, raped and cheated. And I will write Sookie's ending in my own mind as completely loved cherished and protected by whomever she saw fit to choose as her HEA. Poor Eric, just poor Eric. There is nothing to say of his demise. Maybe he should have met the sun too. Hello True Blood! Maybe YOU will get it right. Doubtful, but it is my last hope for Sookie.