After Dead:What Came Next In The World Of Sookie Stackhouse, by Charlaine Harris

Synopsis: Dead Ever After marked the end of the Sookie Stackhouse novels—a series that garnered millions of fans and spawned the hit HBO television show True Blood. It also stoked a hunger that will never die…a hunger to know what happened next.
 
With characters arranged alphabetically—from the Ancient Pythoness to Bethany Zanelli—bestselling author Charlaine Harris takes fans into the future of their favorite residents of Bon Temps and environs. You’ll learn how Michele and Jason’s marriage fared, what happened to Sookie’s cousin Hunter, and whether Tara and JB’s twins grew up to be solid citizens.
 
This coda provides the answers to your lingering questions—including details of Sookie’s own happily-ever-after…

The book will feature extensive interior art by acclaimed Sookie artist Lisa Desimini, including a Sookieverse Alphabet, color endpapers, and several full-page black and white interior illustrations.

Thoughts: While this was a fun, quick read (took me less than half an hour to finish it), it was not really all that fulfilling. For me, it brought up more questions than it answered, and left me wanting more novels to fill in the blanks! 

Deadlocked, by Charlaine Harris

Synopsis: Felipe de Castro, the vampire King of Louisiana (and Arkansas and Nevada), is in town. It’s the worst possible time for a human body to show up in Eric Northman’s front yard—especially the body of a woman whose blood he just drank.

Now it’s up to Sookie and Bill, the official Area Five investigator, to solve the murder. Sookie thinks that, at least this time, the dead girl’s fate has nothing to do with her. But she is wrong. She has an enemy, one far more devious than she would ever suspect, who’s set out to make Sookie’s world come crashing down.

Thoughts:  This is the next to the last True Blood novel.  :(  I've really enjoyed reading them, and getting invested in the characters. This book gave us more insight into Sookie's fairy relatives, and seems to indicate that the final book will at last contain the Sam/Sookie relationship I've been rooting for all along. I'll be keeping my fingers crossed till I read it, for sure!

Dead Reckoning, by Charlaine Harris

  Synopsis: With her knack for being in trouble’s way, Sookie Stackhouse witnesses the firebombing of Merlotte’s, the bar where she works. Since Sam Merlotte is now known to be two-natured, suspicion falls immediately on the anti-shifters in the area. Sookie suspects otherwise, but her attention is divided when she realizes that her lover, Eric Northman, and his “child” Pam are plotting to kill the vampire who is now their master. Gradually, Sookie is drawn into the plot—which is much more complicated than she knows.

Caught up once again in the politics of the vampire world, Sookie will learn that she is as much of a pawn as any ordinary human—and that there is a new queen on the board….

Thoughts: This is the eleventh book in the series, and I'm still finding them very entertaining. I've had to learn to view the books and the True Blood television series as two very different entities, however. Otherwise, I drive myself crazy with all the inconsistencies between the two.  I'm still hoping that Sam and Sookie will end up together in the end!