Dead and Gone

Sookie welcomed the news of another living relative, albeit it also came with the realization that her grandmother produced her children with a half-fairy who wasn't her husband. But since her fairy prince great-grandfather, Niall, has tracked her down, so can his enemies.

The Shreveport werewolves and Louisiana vampires have settled their respective civil problems, so, of course, the fairy world is in turmoil and has drawn Sookie into it. Once again, Harris's heroine defends her life from supernatural beings that can more easily disguise themselves and aren't confined to the night, merely because of her recently discovered heritage. Although she can't share that struggle with other humans, and few supes for that matter, she and her brother can publicly mourn the murder of her pregnant were sister-in-law in a world where shape shifters are newly 'out' alongside vamps.

Apparently after nine books, there is no end to Sookie's struggles and Harris's imagination. The choice to include the fairy warfare keeps her life difficult/entertaining, whereas another vamp or were conflict would seem forced after the resolutions of their civil conflicts in the previous book. Also, the line between loyalty to Bill or Eric becomes fuzzier in a pleasantly frustrating way as each proves himself to be more worthy of Sookie's affection.

Harris has created yet another appendage of Sookie's story with numerable supernatural elements in sync with the reader's world that are so crazy, they work beautifully, generating expectations for more quality installments.