All Together Dead

All of Sookie's dealings with vamps and near misses with death in the first six books culminate in a vampire summit that she attends in 'All Together Dead.'

Despite her actual fairy godmother's suggestions, the telepath opts to accompany Louisiana's vamp queen (along with her undead ex, Bill, who she's trying to sever ties with) to notify her when humans deceive her in business dealings. However, the queen doesn't want to lose that convenience when the summit ends, putting the romantic tension between her usual suitors (Eric and Bill) along with her new shape-shifting beau, Quinn, on the backburner for once.

In this installment, Harris remains true to the actual timeline and forces her characters to deal with the aftermath of Katrina. This successfully adds to the incorporation of Sookie's and the supes' world into the reader's that the contemporary timeline and cultural references sprinkled throughout the narrative already impose.

Although this book doesn't have as many gratuitous love scenes Sookie and the reader both relish in, the drama isn't scanty. This could have easily been the end of the series with such a huge climax that seems to affect so many of Harris's characters, but luckily for her audience, it instead cleverly plants the seeds for so much more quality drama.