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SPOILER ALERT!!!!!!!!!!! Please do NOT read if you haven't read the book yet as there are spoilers!!!! I don't think I have ever written a book review before. After being a long-time, die-hard Southern Vampire Mysteries fan and then reading this final book I felt the need to write one. Charlaine Harris must hate her fans. She spends 12 books getting a huge, dedicated fan base to fall in love with Sookie and the world she lived in. After 12 books, she turns around and throws it all away with this last book. Where to start? 1) Every book there is at least one person trying to kill Sookie for one reason or another. In this book, one of the people trying to kill Sookie (Amelia's father) is mad at her for the following reason: He had one wish given to him by a devil. What does he use the wish on? He wishes for the devil to find him a Cluviel Dor (a fairy item that Sookie owns). What does the Cluviel Dor do? IT GRANTS YOU ONE WISH! Why would you use your ONE WISH to gain an item to grant you ONE WISH??? When the devil finds Sookie, he sees that she has already used it and so returns to tell the man. The man hadn't worded his wish very well, because the devil "found it" and that's that. Wish is used and done. Now Amelia's father is royally mad at Sookie and decides to end her. If anything, he should be mad that Charlaine Harris wrote him as a fool. 2) Sookie has been dating/married with Eric Northman since I believe book 3. Other love interests have shown up for short periods here and there. None were ever written as a serious option by Charlaine Harris. I'm a huge Eric Northman fan. However, if Charlaine didn't intend to have Sookie end up with him, then she should have broken them up several books ago and started developing her relationship with someone new. I know Charlaine doesn't like Eric. She has said on several occasions that she didn't understand why the fans like him so much. Why would you have your main character in a relationship with this amazing vampire who loves and protects her for 8 or 9 books only to break them up at the beginning of the final book? And she doesn't just break them up. In a move completely out of character with the Eric that Charlaine has created, he publicly ends their vampire marriage and is subsequently shipped off to Oklahoma where he will be separated from his children and the Area he has so happily sheriffed and made to be what is basically a sex slave to the Vampire Queen of Oklahoma for 200 YEARS! Charlaine, we get it, you truly hate Eric. Not only does Eric have the worst ending to a story line in history, but Sookie doesn't seem to so much as bat an eyelash. After 9 books of developing this strong undying love for Eric and when he "vampire-dumps her" what is her reaction? "Meh... my tomatoes look fantastic!". There were more pages dedicated to the description of her tomato garden in this book then there were to the ending of her love with Eric and the supposed beginning of her "relationship" with Sam. Unbelievable. 3) She completely threw all of the rules SHE created out the window. Remember how fairies can only be killed with iron? Remember how they turn in to a pile of glittering dust once killed? In this book, a fairy is killed with a common bullet. And for whatever reason, he doesn't turn in to dust. He is simply a dead body like any other human. Remember how Sookie loved dating vampires because she couldn't hear their thoughts? Remember how she can hear the thoughts of humans and shifters and were's? Remember how she always thought of Sam as a brother and how even if she didn't, it wouldn't work because she could hear his thoughts anyway? Not anymore! Sookie actually says to herself in this book something about how "she's never been able to hear Sam's thoughts, only pick up his feelings". Since when?? Since Charlaine decided she had enough of her fans loving the hero she created for Sookie and decided she wanted Sookie with Sam. I think she spent 30 pages on suddenly having Sookie decide she would be with Sam. Thirteen books and you spend 30 pages on the supposed "happily ever after" for your heroine? Sookie deserves better Charlaine. 4) She decided to walk through all of these characters that we haven't seen in ages. Why does Quinn show up for two minutes? Why are Bob and Amelia there? Why did you feel the need to waste the precious pages of your last book on characters we haven't seen in so long that we no longer care about and the wonders of Sookie's tomato garden??? 5) Finally, we are introduced in the beginning of the series to a telepathic waitress stuck in a podunk town serving corn fritters and beer to the locals. We are then told for a dozen books how special Sookie is. How she is meant for such greatness. Great things are coming for Sookie! How does Sookie's life end up? In a podunk town, line dancing, sleeping with her boss in his trailer (having what she refers to as "the best sex ever, we were like two SEALS!") and serving corn fritters and beer to the locals. So again, I don't think I've ever written a review for a book before but after the the obvious hate for her readers that Charlaine must have, I couldn't help myself. I will never hand over another penny to Charlaine Harris.