Mallory Reads "All Together Dead"
Book
7 time. In All Together Dead, Sookie
ventures to the vampire conference we’ve been hearing about. Everything will go
just great I bet……
So
here’s where we left off: Sookie has a new boyfriend, she’s part fairy and this
fairy blood might be why vampires like her so much, Bill is a lying a-hole who
was sent by the queen to seduce Sookie for her telepathy, and Sookie has a new
friend named Amelia who is a witch that turned her latest hook-up into a cat
and headed with Sookie to Bon Temps to avoid trouble with her fellow witches.
In
Chapter 1, let’s get down to business.
Sookie
has arrived at Fangtasia. It is September. Wait, last account I had it was
March. I thought this conference was like in April or something… So we’ve lost
like 5 months of Sookie’s life. What happened with Quinn? Are her and Amelia
like BFFs now? How was that double wedding? Hmm…
Pam
lets her in and asks how Jason and Sam are. Strange. Jason, Sookie says, is
talking about getting married. Pam thinks Sookie is moping and should stay
busy. She is staying busy, though. Working, dealing with her roommate and
there’s a wedding shower she’s going to. Whose wedding shower? Poor Pam doesn’t
know what a wedding shower is. Where they get married in a bathroom? LOL.
Sookie explains that and says it’s similar to a baby shower. Pam seems
intrigued by the idea of a baby shower and tells Eric as they enter his office
that maybe one of their waitresses will get pregnant so they can have one.
Maybe
one day Sookie will be pregnant and Pam can attend her baby shower. Just sayin.
There are several other vampires in the office: Clancy, Felicia, Indira,
Maxwell Lee, he who has now been abjured by Sookie, Thalia, Andre, and Jake
Purifoy. We have a better timeline for Sookie’s world now! It is September
2005, one month after hurricane Katrina. Vampires, as well as humans, have
flocked into the area recently and Eric is trying to figure out what to do with
the refugee vamps.
The
queen has since been relocated to Baton Rouge with the area four sheriff,
Gervaise, since her residence was damaged in the hurricane. Andre gives them
all a rundown of how her property is looking and explains that each sheriff
should contribute to the repairs. The queen also lost quite a bit of her
personnel. Several vamps are still missing. Sookie asks about Bubba and Andre
says he made it. He’s living in Nashville currently.
Sookie
also mentions something strange. She wants to know if any of the other kings
and queens have weather predictors. Her point is this: the summit was supposed
to be in the spring (as I thought) but it kept getting delayed. If it had
happened in the spring, Sophie-Anne would have gone in all powerful with lots
of minions from both Louisiana and Arkansas, but now…well, she’s down 30 vamps
or more and with a lot of her stuff gone.
Andre
seems to think this is an interesting idea and Eric agrees. So like, does this
mean they think someone postponed the event on purpose so Sophie-Anne would
come into it less powerful? How does Sookie think of these things? Though, Eric
does tell Andre that she is good at thinking outside of the box.
They
mention a suit being filed by someone named Jennifer Cater. She was Peter
Thredgill’s second, who was absent from Louisiana during the “incident”. She is
claiming that the queen led Peter there to kill him and if Sophie-Anne loses,
she will have to give back Arkansas and pay a huge fine. But that’s not what
happened, Sookie says. Andre’s fingers brush the back of her neck and she
realizes that, besides him, she is the only other witness to the king’s death.
Oh super.
The
court plans to pursue the case now that Sophie-Anne is having troubles. Bill
speaks up and says there are plenty of witnesses to back up the queen’s story.
And conveniently none of the Arkansas vampires made it out alive. Andre says
that only a few vamps will be attending the conference this year. Strangely,
Sookie thinks this is what it is like to be a normal person. She doesn’t know
the thoughts or plans of any of the people in the room, like most people are
all the time.
Andre
says the queen wants Sookie with her at all meetings to keep her mind on all
humans in attendance. Stan is bringing his telepath as well. Barry we guess.
Eric tells Clancy and Felicia they have to stay and Clancy is not happy about
it. He also says Bill has to stay, but adjured one says that he has to go
because the queen wants him to come and market his vampire database thing. So
Eric, Bill, Andre, Sophie-Anne, Pam, Mr. Catalides, Diantha, Gervaise and his
human, Rasul, Sigbert and Sookie will be attending from Louisiana.
Eric
tells them all when they will be leaving and coming back. The conference is in
Rhodes, which I think is in Illinois, so they will have to fly. He tells Sookie
before she leaves that she will need new clothes so he has set up money for her
at Tara’s store. He insists all employees of the queen receive such credit so
as not to imply that she is the only poor one with no nice clothes. It still
kind of comes across that way, though.
This
whole vampire conference thing just seems like a bad idea to me. Maybe Sookie
will manage to escape unscathed. Yeah…
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In
Chapter 2, wedding showers.
Sookie
is attending Halleigh’s wedding shower. Wasn’t the double wedding supposed to
be in April also? Why did everything get delayed? Anyway, Elmer Claire Vaudry
is this showers inappropriate guest and keeps asking about Andy’s nightstick.
Then we find out why the wedding was postponed. Apparently they were in a rush
to have the wedding in the spring because old Mrs. Caroline Bellefleur was
having health problems and they wanted to hold the ceremony before anything
worse happened. But, Caroline had a heart attack right before the wedding so
they postponed it until she got better. Unfortunantely, she’s not really
getting that much better.
Sookie
can’t help but read the minds of some of the women at the shower. Halleigh
seems to be enjoying herself. Bill’s girlfriend makes an appearance. So at this
point, Bill has been dating this girl for like at least 6 months. That’s nearly
longer than he and Sookie dated I’m pretty sure. Halleigh thanks Sookie for
helping out and then asks loudly about her new boyfriend. I like that Halleigh.
Of course, the girl thinks Sookie was dating Claude but Sookie explains she is
dating a consultant. Halleigh says she should bring him to the wedding.
The
women ask Sookie about her roomie and how she is fairing after the hurricane.
Also Elmer Claire saw her at the vet refusing to have her cat neutered and
covering up its ears like it the cat knew what they were talking about. LOL.
Poor Bob. They continue asking questions about Amelia and Sookie has to lie and
say she came to live in Bon Temps because she broke up with her boyfriend, the
Mormon missionary. Close enough.
When
Sookie gets home that day, Quinn is there. Here’s what we learn about that.
Since March, he’s only been in town a couple of times (his work keeps him very
busy) and even then they didn’t get to spend hardly any time together. So no
sex yet. They have a little make-out session in the yard and then chit chat.
She tells him he is invited to the wedding. Amelia comes down, saying she’s
leaving for a while to go shopping. How convenient.
Once
they are alone, she wonders how long he is in town for. Until tomorrow, he
says.
“So,” he said. He went down
on one knee. “Please,” he said.
Not
gonna lie. This does make me smile a little. But Sookie is worried because she
doesn’t want to have a one night (day) stand. She doesn’t want to get invested
if she’s never going to see him. He promises that after the vampire summit he
is taking a whole month off and he plans to spend it with her. Well, in that
case…yes.
His mouth found mine. We
picked up where we’d left off with the kissing. His mouth was a very clever one
and his tongue was very warm. His hands began examining my topography. Down the
line of my back to the curve of my hips, back up to my shoulders to cup my face
for a moment, down to brush my neck teasingly with the lightest of fingertips.
Then those fingers found my breasts, and after a second he tugged my top out of
my pants and began exploring territory he’d only visited briefly before. He
liked what he found, if “Mmmmm” was a statement of delight. It spoke volumes to
me. “I want to see you,” he said. “I want to see all of you.” I had never made
love in the daytime before. It seemed very (excitingly) sinful to be struggling
with buttons before the sun had even set, and I was so grateful I’d worn an
extra-nice white lace bra and little bitty panties. When I dress up, I like to
dress up all the way down to the skin.
I
don’t always do this, but then again, it’s not like I have a large manly
boyfriend who is likely to show up and take them off for me so… Anyway, her
shoes come off and his shirt (he’s not hairy) and she tries to get his belt
off.
What he is, is muscular to
the nth degree, and right at the moment his olive skin was summer-tan. His
nipples were surprisingly dark and (not so surprisingly) very hard. Oh,
boy—right at my eye level. He began dealing with his own damn belt while I
began to explore one hard nub with my mouth, the other with my hand. Quinn’s
whole body jerked, and he stopped what he was doing. He ran his fingers into my
hair to hold my head against him, and he sighed, though it came out more like a
growl, vibrating through his body. My free hand yanked at his pants, and he
resumed working on the belt but in an unfocused and distracted way.
He
carries her to the bedroom and lays her on the bed. Then she remembers
something important. Does he have a condom? Cause unlike he last two bedmates,
he is capable of producing offspring. Don’t need that right now. He does. He
gets it out of his pocket and then takes off the rest of his clothes.
He had a tight, high butt,
and the line from his hip to his thigh was just mouthwatering. He had fine,
thin white scare striping him at random, but they seemed like such a natural
part of him that they didn’t detract from his powerful body.
Then
it’s her turn so she removes her remaining clothes, which is basically her
undies. Then there’s a weird buffet reference in which Sookie says her breasts
are the first course…
I discovered that Quinn’s
tongue was just a bit raspier than a regular man’s. I was gasping and making
incoherent noises when he moved from my right breast to my left as he tried to
decide which one he liked best. He couldn’t make up his mind immediately, which
was fine with me. By the time he settled on the right breast, I was pushing
against him and making sounds that couldn’t be mistaken for anything but
desperate. “I think I’ll skip the second course and go right to dessert,” he
whispered, his voice dark and ragged. “Are you ready, babe? You sound ready.
You feel ready.” “I am so ready,” I said, reaching down between us to wrap my
hand around his length. He quivered all over when I touched him. He rolled on
the condom. “Now,” he growled. “Now!” I guided him to my entrance, thrust my
hips up to meet him. “I dreamed of this,” he said, and shoved inside me up to
the hilt. That was the last thing either of us was able to say. Quinn’s
appetite was as outstanding as his equipment. He enjoyed dessert so much, he
came back for seconds.
What
is there to even say about that?
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In
Chapter 3, Amelia 101.
Amelia
returns from the mall, shopping bags in hand. Sookie and Quinn are re-dressed
and cooking bacon. Sookie is thinking about how warm Quinn had been inside of
her in comparison to the vampires. It was also very different making love with
someone with a heartbeat. I imagine it
would be. Quinn asks what it was like hearing his thoughts during sex and she
says it wasn’t a problem. Apparently, as long as he’s in the moment and happy
then she’s happy, too. That’s good news for all. Including those of us over
here in Team Sam land. All five of us.
They
all eat lunch and Amelia talks about her plans for Bob. She wishes she could
talk to her mentor, but she knows that she will be in big trouble. On top of
that, she can’t seem to track the woman down and thinks she may have been hurt
or worse during the hurricane. Quinn asks about her plans now that her property
is damaged. Well, her property wasn’t damaged that bad and she is getting her
dad to help her fix it back up. Who is her dad, Quinn asks. Nosey much, tiger?
She answers though. Copley Carmichael. They seem to know who that is.
Apparently,
he is some super rich dude. Amelia uses her mother’s maiden name because she
doesn’t want the attention of being Mr. Carmichael’s daughter. The man doesn’t
believe in witches. Amelia also reveals that her mother died three years before
and that is when she decided to move out on her own. Well, sort of. Her dad
bought it for her. But she refused his offer to give her an allowance and
instead decided to do odd jobs to support herself.
Sookie
wonders about Bob. Is anyone looking for him? Amelia doesn’t know. She didn’t
really know Bob that well before the incident. He did live with his aunt whom
he didn’t like and he had friends but what can she really do until she fixes
him? The phone rings about that time and it is Jason. He wants Sookie to come
out to Hotshot in an hour. Cause he’s getting married.
What?!
Sookie
asks if Crystal is pregnant again. Yep. Sadly, Jason does not seem willing to
face the fact that Crystal has miscarried a bunch and probably will again.
Sookie agrees to come and asks if Amelia and Quinn can come too. Yeah, sure
they can. Calvin is cooking some jambalaya so she doesn’t need to bring
anything.
Does
this seem like a terrible idea to anyone else?
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In
Chapter 4, dum dum da dum. Dum da dum da dum da dum….
They
get dressed and head on out to Hotshot. Hoyt arrives about the same time that
they do. He doesn’t look too happy. He’s sad because his best friend is getting
married and I guess he feels a little bit abandoned. He honestly thinks Jason
will start doing the right thing and devote time to his wife. Sookie hopes
Hoyt’s right.
Jason
and Crystal are standing in the midst of a group with Calvin. They beckon
Sookie over and she realizes that she is going to have a part in the ceremony.
I have a feeling this is not going to be some traditional event though. Calvin
and Crystal both look a little too happy to see Quinn there. Man, everyone
knows this cat. Pun intended.
So
here’s what’s going down. The oldest living relative for both the bride and
groom has to vouch for them. So happens that is Calvin and Sookie. That is to
say they are responsible if Jason or Crystal makes a mistake (like cheats on
the other) and if the guilty party is unable to receive the punishment. And the
punishment is not money. I.E. Crystal cheats but she is pregnant so Calvin
takes the beating instead. Jason is also now required to keep the secret of the
community and help out anyone living in Hotshot when they need it. He agrees
and Sookie, who doesn’t like any of this, tells him he better be dang serious
about it. Jason says he is but I’m not so sure I believe that.
Crystal
also promises but Sookie calls her out. The panther doesn’t give a crap and
insists she is marrying Jason anyway. Calvin doesn’t look thrilled. I wouldn’t
either if I were him. But he says they can’t stop it from happening. So the
wedding proceeds as planned (as planned in the hour before it took place) and
after it is over, there is cake and dancing. Sookie tries to be happy for Jason
but cries some tears of unhappiness. Jason tells her later that the reason they
opted to have the wedding that night was not only was she pregnant, but her
favorite band was available that night to play the reception. Seems like legit
reasons to get married suddenly. Not.
Sookie
dances with Quinn and Calvin and Hotyt and Catfish. Fun times for everyone! But
eventually she and Quinn decide to head home. Amelia decides she wants to stay
behind and keep the party going. They return to Sookie’s and Bob is not happy
Amelia is not with them. They head to bed and Sookie opts to put all of her
worry out of her mind so she can enjoy her last night with Quinn for a while.
Jason
has made a bad decision. I just know it.
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In
Chapter 5, bad days.
Selah
comes into the bar alone while Sookie is working the next day. She wants to
talk to Sookie about the trip she is taking with Bill. She accuses Sookie of
trying to steal Bill back. Oh no you
didn’t. Sookie, who is having a crappy day already (Quinn left, Amelia didn’t
come home, and Bob threw up on her bed…plus Jason is married to a scummy chick),
gets enraged and she goes to slap the bitch.
But
Sam grabs her hand just in time and tells Selah to GTFO. Nicer than that cause
he’s amazing but you get the idea. Right to refuse service and all that. Dawson,
local Werewolf auto repairman, comments on how vamps must be better than he
thought to upset fine women. Really, so far they’re just proving to be
possessive pains.
“Who’s upset?” I said,
smiling and standing straighter to show Sam I was unfazed. I doubt he was
fooled, since Sam knows me pretty well, but he got my emotional drift and went
back behind the bar.
One
day, Sam. One day.
JB
comes in with Tara for lunch and we find out he has a new job at a health club.
Tara helped him get it. Also, Tara and JB have slept together before, we
discover. He asks Sookie out, once more, but she tells him she’s got a
boyfriend. The whole conversation brightens Sookie’s day a little. It is nice
to be appreciated and found attractive and she had been worried about her and
Tara’s friendship a little.
Amelia
is home when Sookie gets back from work. She has cleaned the entire house which
means she is feeling guilty for what she did. She’d had sex with Derrick,
Calvin’s cousin. It hadn’t been good at he’d gotten clingy fast. Bob strolls in
and Amelia starts apologizing to him. She promises not to have sex with any
guys until he’s human again. But girls on the other hand. Sookie warns that she
is off limits. LOL. But Amelia says Sookie isn’t her type. Why not? Sookie
wonders. LOL more.
Amelia
throws a tea bag at Sookie and she catches it with quick reflexes. Scarily, she
still has traces of vampire blood in her. She’s still stronger and faster than
average humans. She hasn’t had vamp blood in a while either. I hope this isn’t
some sort of sign that she is going to turn. I don’t want that to happen. Though
Amelia suggests that maybe it is her fairy blood instead. Hmm… Could be.
Claudine
arrives (speaking of fairies) and she and Amelia take turns insulting each
other before Amelia stomps out. The fairy wants to know why Sookie is going to
the vampire summit. Is it because she needs the money? Well, not desperately.
But she wants it. Claudine says she will not be able to join her for obvious
reasons and worries that something bad is going to happen. She doesn’t want
Sookie to go.
“Going in the train of a
vampire,” Claudine said dismally. “It’ll mark you as one of their world, for
good. You’ll never be an innocent bystander again. Too many creatures will know
who you are and where you can be found.”
She
makes a very good and frightening point. Sookie begins to question her own
motives. Why is she going to this
thing?
Was I just curious about
what the agenda might be at a vampire summit? Did I want the attention of more
undead members of society? Did I want to be known as a fangbanger, one of those
humans who simply adored the walking dead? Did some corner of my long for a
chance to be near Bill without seeking him out, still trying to make some
emotional sense of his betrayal? Or was this about Eric? Unbeknownst to myself,
was I in love with the flamboyant Viking who was so handsome, so good at making
love, and so political, all at the same time? This sounded like a promising set
of problems for a soap opera season.
Whatever
the reason, she is determined to go. I don’t like this!! Claudine stops being
cheery, which never happens. This is gonna be bad, isn’t it? I’m never gonna
get what I want, am I? I may as well just quit now and spare myself.
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In
Chapter 6, shopping and more warnings.
The
next morning, Sookie heads to Tara’s Togs to get her summit clothes. Her friend
is unhappy. She wants to know why Sookie is running off with a bunch of
vampires. Sookie explains what her job will be but Tara still doesn’t like it.
She wants nothing to do with vampires. Sookie, who is wearing on my nerves, is
all “no one tells me what to do” and “I’m going whether they like it or not.”
She’ll end up injured as usual. And this time I will not feel sorry for her
stubborn ass.
Tara
thinks Sookie is pretty much done for and she’s tired of worrying about it.
Instead, tonight Tara will have sex with JB in her memory. Strange, but okay.
She helps Sookie pick out her clothes with little enthusiasm. A local priest
apparently told Sookie that she must want to die, hanging with vampires so
much. I think so too sometimes. But Sookie says she doesn’t want to die. She
just likes doing interesting things and doesn’t think she will ever have a
normal life.
If I couldn’t have a husband
and children, worry about what I was going to take to the church potluck and if
our house need another coat of paint, then I’d worry about what three-inch
heels would do to my sense of balance when I was wearing several extra pounds
of sequins.
And
why can’t she have those things? Maybe not with a regular human, but with a
shifter or Were she could. No, it won’t be exactly normal, but more normal than
hanging with blood drinking dead people. Don’t give up on a family, Sookie. I
really want that for her. I’m really too invested I think sometimes.
Later
at work, Sookie goes to tell Sam that she is leaving Thursday. She’d already
scheduled the time off, but hadn’t known exactly when she would be leaving. Sam
is working on his books, hair awry. Guess what? He’s not happy she’s going
either. There will be other humans, she says. But not like her, he replies.
Fangbangers who probably won’t live more than a few years. Then she starts
making a strange argument about how a few years ago she didn’t know anything
supernatural existed. And now her world is different and she never thought
she’d have a life for herself but now she does. So… this life she has is
serving vampires? I have a sudden aversion to them all.
“I’d be the last person in
the world to block your place in the sun, Sookie,” Sam said, and he smiled at
me. But it didn’t escape my attention that his statement was a wee bit
ambiguous.
I’m
not quite sure I totally understand what he’s saying here. It’s kinda like, I’m
not gonna stand in your way and try to stop you from living your life. But is
the ambiguous part that he says the word sun? Is that like an anti-vampire
reference? Or is it ambiguous because it could actually mean that he cares
about her so much he just wants her to be happy? And maybe those feelings are
more than friendly? Am I reading too much into this?
Anyway,
Pam comes by the bar and starts questioning Sookie about her relationship with
Quinn. It is making Eric unhappy apparently. She reiterates that he doesn’t
like being conflicted and having feelings and all. Yeah, we know. Sookie tries
to brush it off saying he probably has other stuff going on and he’s never
confessed his undying love. But, Pam says, he made Bill confess. Why would he
do that if he didn’t care? I don’t know. Maybe to screw Bill over and get in
Sookie’s pants? I’m just saying. That was my first thought. Not once did I
think Eric was doing that out of the kindness of his heart.
Gross
thing. Sookie tried synthetic blood one time at Bill’s. Why? Ew.
Anyway,
Amelia comes in and she and Pam immediately start making googley eyes at each
other. Well, she did only promise Bob she wouldn’t sleep with men. Sookie
introduces them and then wants to know why her roommate is at the bar. She came
to deliver a message. Quinn called to say he missed her and that he would see
her in Rhodes. Really, Amelia came to the bar because she was bored and
couldn’t take staying in with Bob anymore. But it’s quite impressive if she
hasn’t ventured out more than that in the 5 or 6 months she’s been there.
These
strange occurrences are the result of the massive time jump. Since so many
months have passed and all events were supposed to take place in April, there
have had to be excuses and reasons for all of the delays. I’m curious as to why
Charlaine Harris did this. Was it because she wanted to incorporate Katrina all
of the sudden? Of course, she may have been writing the book back in 05 and
thought the hurricane would add something to the story.
In
other news, Sookie got a cell phone! But even if Quinn had called her on it she
wouldn’t have been able to answer at work. But at least she’s moving into the
21st century. Now if she just learned to use a computer. I’m not
holding my breath on that one.
At
the end of the night as she is leaving, Sookie encounters Arlene. The red-head
asks about Pam and tells Sookie she should hang with humans more. She says they
used to be friends before Bill came along and now she’s hanging with weirdies
and Sookie says she doesn’t have to defend her life to anyone. Stubborn! Arlene
is getting crazy with her Fellowship stuff though. Sookie says she has no right
to judge seeing as how she’s dated thieves and murderers too. Low blow.
Sookie
and I have something in common. We cry when we’re angry. And it is annoying
because it does make you feel weak. Pam comes out and hands her a tissue,
saying Arlene is just a whore. Don’t hold back there, Pam. Sookie defends her
and Pam wonders what Arlene ever did as a friend. Well, she was Sookie’s only
friend for a while. She didn’t just write her off as crazy and she cooked food
for her sometimes. Yeah, she’s not the best person but she did like Sookie. But
Pam insists that Arlene is one of those fickle people who go where the wind
blows her. And now she’d rather hang with the Fellowshippers than her longtime
friend. True enough.
But
the real reason for Pam’s visit is that she wants to talk about Bill and Eric.
Umm…okay?
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In
Chapter 7, once upon a time in London…
Pam
wants Sookie to know that she and Eric had no idea that Bill was on assignment
from the queen when he came to Bon Temps. Pam says she wouldn’t have told
Sookie even if she had known but she honestly didn’t. What a good friend. She
says Sookie has caused a lot of trouble in the area. Bill is all angry and
sulky and feeling guilty, Eric is irritated cause he still can’t remember their
time together and he’s mad that the queen used Bill to get to Sookie without
his knowledge in his area, and
Felicia thinks Sookie is out to get her.
None
of this is Sookie’s fault but Pam says that doesn’t matter. She also doesn’t
think Sookie’s fairy blood is the cause of all of this either.
“Eric feels especially angry
about this,” Pam said. She was picking her words now. “He is angry at Bill
because Bill made an agreement with the queen that bypassed Eric. He is angry
that he didn’t discern Bill’s plan. He is angry at you because you got under
his skin. He is angry at the queen because she is more devious than he is. Of
course, that’s why she’s the queen. Eric will never be a king, unless he can
control himself better.”
So
Eric is just mad at everyone apparently. Since Pam seems genuinely concerned
about Eric, Sookie wonders how they met. They met the night he killed her, she
says. Then we learn about Pam’s story.
She
was a wild girl for her day, slipping out at night to meet her love. Her
parents wouldn’t let them see each other because they were not in the same
social class. So they would meet and steal kisses and hold hands and all. But
one night, on her way home, she ran into Eric. And he killed her. She thinks it
was because he was lonely. Sookie wonders if that made her angry. She says no,
not really. She just wanted to have sex with him. So she did a bunch. Then
later on she decided to “broaden her horizons” and try new things…like women.
Pam
says that she has always loved being a vampire. They had to leave town
immediately, of course, so that her family and friends wouldn’t see her. No one
knew about vamps back then. They traveled around together for a while. Sookie
asks if Pam loved Eric. She says no. They were good companions and lovers, but
she was never in love with him. She has to obey him, she says. But she doesn’t
mind. Pam was 19 when she died.
She
wants Sookie to have mercy on Eric. Apparently he’s never been so entangled in
his emotions before. Eric takes that moment to show up. He tells Pam to leave
and she does. He seems angry about something, but Sookie isn’t sure what.
Eric decided action would
speak louder than words. Suddenly, he was right in front of me. He put a finger
under my chin and lifted my face to his. His eyes, which looked simply dark in
the irregular light, latched on to mine with an intensity that was both
exciting and painful. Vampires; mixed feelings. One and the same. Not exactly
to my astonishment, he kissed me. When someone has had approximately a thousand
years to practice kissing, he can become very good at it, and I would be lying
if I said I was immune to such osculatory talent. My temperature zoomed up
about ten degrees. It was everything I could do to keep from stepping into him,
wrapping my arms around him, and stropping myself against him.
What
about Quinn?
I
honestly can’t believe I just said that. What is wrong with me this time
around? Last time I was all, Team Eric forever! Death to Quinn! And now I’m
like, stop cheating on your boyfriend! I guess upon second read through, I’m
more for the shapeshifters/Weres than the vampires. Weird.
Anyway,
Sookie thinks about her boyfriend as well and puts a halt to the kissing. Eric
wants to know if she is Quinn’s and she informs him that she belongs to
herself, make her own choices. And has she chosen, he wonders. So she kinda
goes off on him because they are not together and he has made no indication
that he wants to be, not that she would have jumped at the opportunity
necessarily but even still he has said nothing, and she likes Quinn. Eric says
she doesn’t know Quinn any more than she knew Bill. Low blow, a-hole. And it’s
not like she “knows” Eric either.
Eric
says he had to tell her about Bill because it just wasn’t right… or something.
Sookie says he probably just wanted to make sure she wouldn’t love Bill again.
Maybe both, he says. She finally just asks what the heck is up with him. Why is
he being all drama queen moody guy? So he explains. He wonders why he was
running down the road near her house when he was cursed. And now that Hallow is
dead he can’t ask. What exactly did her spell dictate?
“Was I supposed to look for
the person I hated? Loved? Could it have been random that I found myself
running out in the middle of nowhere…except that nowhere was on the way to your
house?”
Those
are good questions. Out of all the places he could have been going, why was he
in Bon Temps right near Sookie? Of course, Bill also lives very near to there.
Maybe the spell had landed him near Bill. And why would Hallow want Eric to
look for someone he loved? Wouldn’t that person be more likely to help hide him?
I mean, the witches were scouring the area for him after the spell.
Furthermore, why would they send him anywhere?
Sookie
suggests maybe it was the fairy blood that drew him to her but he says no. Then
he leaves.
So
what we are to discern from this is that Eric has feelings for Sookie. And not
just the ‘I want to have sex with you’ feelings. Eric’s not the loving guy type
it seems and doesn’t know how to deal with really liking someone. I have a
feeling this is far from over.
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Chapter 8, adventures, I wanna go on one.
Amelia
is a bit unhappy that she doesn’t get to go on the trip. But of course Sookie
cannot invite people along. The witch says she’s thinking of applying for a
receptionist job at Greg Aubert’s office. Sookie knows they will get along if
she gets hired. Remember how Greg dabbles in magic? She decides they should
Google Sookie’s hotel and see what it looks like. Poor Sookie, who doesn’t know
how to use a computer, is attempting to learn. She brought Hadley’s computer
back from New Orleans with her with the intention of selling it. But Amelia had
talked her into keeping it and was paying for an extra phone line for internet.
Is this dial-up? Cause that sucks.
After
Sookie has all of her stuff packed up, Amelia drives her to the airport. When
they arrive, they are directed to the private plane Eric chartered for their
flight. They get Sookie’s bags out of the car and head over to the plane. Bobby
Burnham, Eric’s daytime guy, is standing outside checking IDs and such. He
tells her she will have to get the luggage on herself and Amelia mutters a
little spell. Immediately the jerk takes Sookie’s bags onto the plane himself.
On
the plane Sookie encounters three others: Mr. Cataliades, Diantha, and a man
named Johan Glassport. Mr. Cataliades introduces him as the queen’s defense lawyer.
Johan has no interest in talking to or even looking at any of them. The demon
lawyer asks how Sookie’s life is going and then she thanks him for finishing up
everything with Hadley’s estate. It was the least he could do after she helped
the queen, he says. Johan perks up when he realizes Sookie is the witness to
the king’s murder. He wants to talk now.
He
starts a Q&A about the night Peter died. Sookie wonders why he hasn’t
talked to her before now and he says he had been finishing up with his previous
client. Really, he was in jail in Mexico for knifing a prostitute. He seems
like a really upstanding guy, that Johan. After they chat a while, Sookie gets
up to go to the bathroom. Then she wanders to the back of the plane where all
of the coffins are. I suppose they are labeled because she seems to know who is
in each one.
Mr.
Cataliades sneaks up behind her and answers her unspoken question about where
the 5th sheriff is. The queen is also the sheriff of her area. She
didn’t like consulting someone before making decisions. Seems legit. Sookie
asks why the queen wants Johan to defend her and Mr. Cataliades (I really wish
he had a short first name. I’m gonna start calling him Mr. C.) says it is
because he’s a good lawyer who will take cases others won’t. Yes, he’s a
murderer, but aren’t they all? Good point, sort of. Sookie defends killing
people in self-defense or in defense of people she cares about, but Mr. C is
just like yeah whatever.
He
then explains to her about the summit and what she can expect when they get
there. Then Mr. C asks Johan if he’s even been to Rhodes. He used to work
there, he says. But he had to move to Mexico after some stuff went down. I hate
to know what he did. I can only imagine it is not good at all.
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Chapter 9, getting settled.
The
gang arrives in Rhodes and head to their hotel, The Pyramid of Gizeh. It looks
like a pyramid. Go figure. There are guards at the door and no windows on the
ground floor. This is similar to the setup of the hotel Sookie stayed at in
Dallas, but this one is trying to look more “human”, she says. It’s well lit
and they’re playing upbeat music. It’s also much busier. The building has 15
floors, the bottom of which is for humans.
Sookie
has a brief moment of irritation at all of the humans running around trying to
get set up for the convention when the vamps were all sleeping away. She thinks
it wasn’t that long ago that vampires were hiding in the darkness from the
world and wonders if it might have been better. Then she scolds herself for
thinking thoughts like the Fellowship would.
Mr.
C says the coffins are coming in through the basement. Whereas there is a metal
detector at the front entrance, there is not one in the basement. Some of the
vamps have metal coffins, and they obviously can’t search them during the day.
This is still an unsettling thought though. You could sneak in any number of
things in a coffin. Sookie notices that people in the lobby keep staring at
them and it is probably because they are with the queen who will be on trial
for killing her husband. The clerk, who is amused at their discomfort, is
deliberately holding them up. Sookie picks all of this from his brain and then
tells him that he better give them their keys and tell them where their
vampires are before she tells his dirty little secrets. So there.
Sookie
mind calls out for Barry, who answers. They have a little chat, how you been,
what’s your last name… Barry’s is Horowitz but he goes by Bellboy. Clever.
They’ll meet face to face later, they decide. Since the hotel is so booked up,
everyone has a roommate. Sookie’s roomie is Gervaise’s girlfriend Carla
Danvers. She is already in the room when Sookie gets there. She’s very
friendly…also naked. She explains that she and “Gerry” have been together for 7
months and aren’t sharing a room because of his meeting schedule. She plans to
shop a lot.
Carla
asks whose girlfriend Sookie is. Quinn’s, she says and then has to explain who
Quinn is. The girl continues to talk but never asks Sookie why she’s there,
assuming she’s arm candy. Sookie isn’t in a hurry to correct her and reveal
about her ability because that is bound to freak the girl out. Carla finally
gets dressed, after painting her nails, in a scandalous outfit. Sookie gets
changed into a brown more appropriate dress and heads out to meet Mr. C. She
looks around the lobby for Quinn but doesn’t see him.
She
arrives at the queen’s room and Sigebert is standing outside the door. Sookie
speculates that the queen can talk to her “children” mentally when Sigebert
looks like he’s listening to something and then opens the door for Sookie. Hmm…
The queen’s suite is very fancy, unsurprisingly. She, Andre, and Mr. C are
inside, looking like the dangerous teens they will forever be. Sophie-Anne asks
about Sookie’s room and then wants to know what she thinks about Johan. Sookie
thinks the man should be in jail. But the queen only cares if he can defend
her. Does he know his stuff? Yes, he seems to.
Sophie-Anne
says Sookie will need to testify at the trial and accompany her to all meetings
where there will be humans. There is a knock at the door and it is the King of
Texas, Stan Davis. Stan has been upgraded since last we saw him. He used to be
a sheriff. With him is Joseph Velasquez, Rachael (both vamps…I think I remember
them…) and Barry.
Barry had matured in an
almost scary way since I’d last seen him. He’d been a handsome, gawky boy of
maybe nineteen when I’d first spotted him working as a bellboy at the Silent
Shore Hotel in Dallas. Now Barry had had a manicure, a very good haircut, and
the wary eyes of someone who’d been swimming in the shark pool.
So,
I can’t help but think I would feel a little guilty if I were Sookie. I mean,
it is kind of her fault that Stan even found out about Barry. I mean I know she
needed his help and stuff, but I wonder what all Barry has gone through since
and if he likes his new life as a vampire’s possession. He seems happy to see
Sookie though.
Stan
offers Sophie-Anne any help she might need to rebuild in her city. Him showing
up at her room is significant in that it shows his support for her. He is
clearly choosing sides in the trial. The phone rings and since Sookie is closest,
she answers. There is a package for their party down on the loading bay and
someone needs to come get it. Why can’t the hotel staff bring it up? Isn’t that
what they’re for? Sookie relays the message and no one seems to know anything
about a package. This seems suspect.
Barry
mind asks if Sophie-Anne is good to work for. She says she doesn’t strictly
work for the queen and still has another job. Barry seems a little shocked by
this and tells her she could make a lot of money in other states doing what
they do. But Sookie likes where she lives. The vamps all notice the two of them
are secretly chatting and are staring them down. Sookie apologizes saying it’s
just fun to talk to another telepath and Barry is the only other one she has
ever met. Sophia-Anne says she could almost hear what they were saying. Scary.
Sookie
asks if she and Barry are needed at the moment since there are no human minds
to read. The vamps permit them to go and they head out into the lobby. They
decide to play around with their ability, blocking out everyone but each other
and then listening to everyone to see who can pick out individual thoughts
better. When they hold hands everything starts to come in super clear.
A
vamp shows up to interrupt their good time. It is Jennifer Cater, the vampire
who is bringing up the lawsuit against Sophie-Anne. She comes in with insults
and Sookie lets her have it right back. Jennifer threatens to drain Sookie, who
says “ooo, I’m so scared”. No really, she does. Killing humans is against the
law, after all. Jennifer says she doesn’t care about human law but she backs
off when everyone starts to stare. She seems to think Sophie-Anne will be found
guilty and then she will rule Arkansas and make it awesome. Or something. Then
she stomps off and Sookie and Barry continue their mind reading.
But
not long after, Barry senses trouble. This time it is Quinn, who is not happy
about seeing his girlfriend holding hands with another dude. But Sookie is so
happy to see him that she just runs into his arms and hugs him. Then they kiss
while poor Barry stands by awkwardly. After a moment, she introduces the two. Barry
has heard of Quinn. He is a great fighter, Barry says. Wait, what? Sookie wants
to know what that is about and Quinn, who looks unhappy, says he will tell her
later. Barry speaks out about how Sookie deserves to know. Know what?
But
they are interrupted before any more can be said on the matter.
She was one of the most frightening
women I’d ever seen, and I’ve seen some scary women. She was probably five foot
eight, with inky black curls that hugged her head, and she was holding a helmet
under her arm. It matched her armor. The armor itself, black and lusterless,
was very much like a rather tailored baseball catcher’s outfit: a chest guard,
thigh protectors, and shin guards, with the addition of thick leather braces
that strapped around the forearms. She had some heavy boots on, too, and she
carried a sword, a gun, and a small crossbow draped about her in appropriate
holsters.
She
comes up to Quinn and asks if he is who she thinks he is. Her name is Batanya.
She wants to know if he is in charge of security because her client has
“special needs”. Quinn tells her he’s not. Todd Donati is. Sookie asks who
Batanya works for. The King of Kentucky, she says. She’s worried about the
security of the place, which worries me. After she leaves, Quinn informs Sookie
and Barry that Batanya is a Britlingen, a super-bodyguard from another
dimension.
Another
dimension? That sounds crazy. It’s very expensive to hire a Britlingen and
Kentucky isn’t exactly rolling in dough so… why would he spend so much money to
hire a really awesome, other-worldly bodyguard? Something really bad is going
to happen. Quinn says he has to go get set up for a wedding. The King of
Indiana and the King of Mississippi (Russell Edgington) are getting married.
But he says he will come to her room later so they can talk.
Sookie
and Barry’s pagers go off, summoning them back to the king and queen. Barry
says he’s sorry for causing problems with Quinn, but she knows he’s really not.
He confesses he had fantasies of himself and Sookie and Quinn kinda ruined it
for him. Back in the suite, Sookie tells the queen and Andre about the
Britlingen and Jennifer Cater. Sophie-Anne decides she should go to Jennifer’s
room and talk with her. She gives her a call on the phone first to say she’s
coming. After some dilly-dallying, they head down.
Andre
goes to knock on their door, since no one is outside guarding it. It opens and
there is an awful smell. Jennifer is dead.
I
imagine this is not going to look well for Sophie-Anne. The person bringing up
charges against her is conveniently dead? Smells fishy.
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Chapter 10, happy weddings and crazy secrets.
The
queen wants Sookie to go in and investigate. What? Hell to the no. So Sigebert
goes in instead. Batanya comes out of another room across the hall. She calls
for Clovache, her second, to do some investigating of her own. The two have only
expected news. Three vamps, all dead. Jennifer is in a couple of pieces.
Lovely. Clovache calls security.
Todd
Donati shows up and Sookie can tell he is unhappy. He is a retired cop who is
dying from cancer. He took this job to make some extra money before he dies for
his family. That is kinda sad. Soon after, his boss, Christian Baruch, vampire,
shows up. He’s pretty famous in the vampire world apparently. He’s been on
magazine covers and all.
Security
and a bunch of spectators gather in the room and Sookie informs the security
woman that is probably not the best idea. They could be contaminating the crime
scene. Good point. Well, the woman says, why is Sookie there. She was with the
vamps who found the body. Let us do our work, security woman tells her. What
work? Sookie asks.
And
security woman slams Sookie against the wall and handcuffs her. Really need to
mind that temper, Sook. Landry, security woman, tells her boss Sookie is
causing trouble by asking why so many people are around. Boss seems to think
that’s a good question. Also, why is Sookie handcuffed. No good reason. Take
off the cuffs, Landry. Sophie-Anne and Andre come over to inspect Sookie’s
wrists. They are alright but the queen informs Landry that injury to Sookie is
injury to her or something. Donati says Landry will apologize in writing.
Andre
introduces himself and Sophie-Anne. Their last names are Paul and Leclerq. Did
we know that? Not sure. Anyway… then he introduces Sookie. Christian seems to
own the hotel I think. Donati goes to look in the apartment while Christian
tells all spectators to scoot. Then start the questions. The group explains
coming down, finding the bodies, etc. Then Christian asks if Sookie killed
them. Yeah, cause that makes sense. No, she tells them.
A
door opens and in runs another vampire. He is grieven by the news. He is the
last Arkansas vampire apparently. The queen offers him a place with her. The
Mr. C shows up out of nowhere and starts telling Sookie about Sophie-Anne and
Peter’s wedding contract. If either died, in front of a witness, the other was
set to inherit their state if there was no second in command to take over.
Well, now there isn’t.
The
vampire introduces himself as Henrik Feith. He says there are 5 vampires,
including himself, left in Arkansas. He is the only one at the conference. He’d
left the room to go complain about towels. That was lucky. Sophie-Anne tells
Henrik to come to her suite. Then Donati says he won’t call the police since he
figures this is a vampire matter. He does point out how there is gum over the
security camera lens.
Sophie-Anne
wants to go to the opening ceremonies now that they are finished answering
questions. But Bill shows up before they get anywhere. He has heard of the
trouble but the queen says his presence will not achieve anything so he may as
well just go back where he was. Haha, Bill.
It was possible that Bill
was trying to show he cared about me by showing up with such haste when he was
supposed to be doing business for the queen elsewhere. If this demonstration
was supposed to soften my heart, it failed.
Good!
Once they get on the elevator, Mr. C tells Sophie-Anne that she needs to get
married again. Like soon. Why? Well, Mr. C says she needs someone strong to
build an alliance with so others can prey on her, though personally, I’m not
sure they could. But who? Kentucky? No, he must have trouble since he hired
otherworldly bodyguards. Alabama? No, she’s too kinky.
Sookie
asks a seemingly unrelated question: how is it that the queen has kept her
children with her all this time? Since most of the time, you know, vampires
don’t mate for life and stuff. Sophie-Anne explains that it is her talent. Like
some vamps can fly, she can keep her children with her. They can communicate
mentally, which Sookie already suspected. Okay, says Sookie, then why doesn’t
Sophie-Anne make Andre the king of Arkansas and marry him?
Because…because…well, actually that is a good idea, the queen decides. Andre
agrees to do it.
They
head down to the lobby and Sookie starts listening in on the scattering of
human brains. None of them are really thinking about anything interesting. She
gets momentarily distracted by a whore and follows her around. I guess whores
have more entertaining thoughts than most. But the girl spots her and Sookie
moves on. She hears someone thinking about Quinn and decides to follow that
thought.
They
lead to an E(E)E employee. A young woman. When she nearly runs into Sookie, she
asks if she’s dating a vamp. Nope, dating Quinn. She seems unhappy about this.
He hadn’t said he was dating anyone, she says.
I felt free to dip into her
skull, and I found there a deep affection for Quinn. She didn’t think any other
women were worthy of him. She thought I was a slow southern girl who hid behind
men.
Well
we all know that isn’t true. Sookie tells the girl Quinn’s business isn’t hers
and the chick stomps off. Barry, who has arrived on the scene, notices the girl
and watches her walk away, enjoying the sight. Then Barry asks Sookie if she’s
ever been to a convention. Only a small one with Sam (I miss Sam) but only for
a few hours. Barry seems concerned that no one is required to wear a badge or anything
indicating they belong. Anyone could sneak in. But Sookie notices that now that
it is dark, all of the employees and guards are vampires. That makes her feel a
bit more secure.
She
wanders around the convention hall, checking out the booths. One is selling realistic
fake fangs, one has CDS, one is where abjured one is selling the computer
database… Pam is assisting with that… there are booths selling books and
coffins and lots of other junk. Andre, Sophie-Anne, Gervaise and Cleo show up.
One asks where Eric is. Getting ready to officiate the wedding ceremony. Wait,
what? Yeah, he got certified online.
Speaking
of the wedding… Edgington and Indiana come out holding hands, having concluded
their marriage negotiations. Russell stops to talk to Bill. In a possible
attempt to get a reaction from Bill, Russell mentions he heard Bill had a rough
time in Mississippi. He’s sorry but he couldn’t interfere with Lorena’s plans
since she was Bill’s maker. Bill just acts all calm and cool as usual.
Whatever. Then Russell wants to introduce Indiana, whose name is Bart, to
Sookie. He tells Bart how Sookie was staked. Thanks for bringing up that
memory.
Then
Russell says he believes Sookie left Mississippi with something. But, Sookie
says, she left something, too. No more beating around the bush. Yeah, she took
Bill and killed Lorena. So what? Russell seems impressed. He asks about Alcide
and the packmaster incident and then Quinn shows up. Time for the wedding.
Russell seems more impressed when he finds out that Sookie is dating the
were-tiger. When are we going to find out why Quinn is so impressive?
Strangely, Sookie says Quinn is dressed like a genie. Umm…
What?
She said genie.
So
Sookie asks Russell if he holds some sort of grudge over her for what she did
and he says no. He didn’t like Lorena anyway. Well, that’s good at least. One
enemy checked off the list. The question is, how many others are still out
there? She also asks him why everyone thinks Quinn is awesome. He says Quinn
has made a lot of people money. Vague much?
Rasul
approaches wearing a fancy uniform. This is what he must wear for formal
occasions. Sookie asks about Chester and Melanie, the missing vamps. No word on
them. Rasul is solemn because now he’s stuck with Jake, former werewolf. And
speaking of, here he comes, too. Rasul leaves the two to talk and Sookie asks
Jake if he has spoken to Quinn. Not really. And he’s pretty upset that Quinn
can be accepted no matter what he’s done, but being a vampire automatically
outcasted Jake. What did he do? But before Jake can answer, the wedding begins.
They have a buffet available, food for non-vampires and blood fountains and donor
humans for the undead. Blood fountains? Ew.
The
kings are wearing fancy robes and stand up in front of everyone else. Eric
comes out wearing a black velvety hooded cloak thing. He gives a spiel about
their marriage and asks if they both agree to the terms and conditions. They
do. Sweet. Except then Eric cuts both of their wrists and they bleed into a
goblet and then both drink it. Then they kiss and sign the contract. It is a
100 year marriage.
After
the wedding, Sookie demands that Jake tell her about Quinn. Here’s the gist:
Quinn
is one of the last were-tigers. His dad died when he was little so he just has
his mom. One night his mom was taken by hunters while in animal form, a bear.
So when he finds out, he tracks her down and finds the hunters raping her. So
he kills all of them. Quinn went to local vampires for assist in cleaning up to
hide evidence. In return for their help, they insisted he fight for them for 3
years. And I’m talking, fight to the death fighting. Vampire entertainment.
Quinn survived his three years, winning match after match, taking out all other
supes.
After
that, he had to go take care of his sister. His mom had gotten pregnant during
the rape. Frannie is her name. And she’s young woman Sookie ran into earlier,
the one who didn’t think she was good enough for Quinn. His sister. I
definitely thought she was like in love with him. Course, this is Charlaine
Harris. Anyone read Harper Connelly? Course they weren’t blood related so this
would be worse. Moving on…
Frannie
is a trouble maker and her mom has problems with her. She sent her to stay with
Quinn and he employed her when she showed up the night before. Sookie doesn’t
handle all of this news well and walks away for some alone time.
Well
now we know why everyone has heard of Quinn. He’s like a prize fighter. I hope
she doesn’t go all hard on him for killing a bunch o supes since her last
boyfriend has killed a gillion humans. NO HYPOCRASY! Why am I even defending
Quinn though? That is so unlike me.
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Chapter 11, bonding is not so awesome.
Sookie
runs into Andre who says the queen needs her. Off to work, no time for personal
drama. Sophie-Anne is talking to the queen of Alabama, who has agreed to back
her up during the trial…if there even still is one. The human with Alabama
doesn’t seem to think the offer is sincere and figures Alabama will back out.
Lies! Sookie indicates untrustworthy to Sophie-Anne. Kentucky comes up alone,
dressed like Davy Crockett, and Sookie wonders where his bodyguards are. But
she notices the empty space behind him that no one ever walks in. They are
there…just invisible. Weird.
Kentucky,
Isaiah, says he wants to talk to Sophie-Anne but without Sookie around so the
queen decides to send Sookie to retrieve the suitcase that was called about
before. Andre looks blank, what else is new, but then tells Sophie-Anne that he
must go tell Sookie about the schedule for the night. But really, he wants to talk
about something else. Surprisingly her, Andre bites his wrist and holds it up
to her, telling her to drink. What? No way! Why?
“You have to have a stronger
connection to Sophie-Anne or me. We need you bound to us by more than a
paycheck. Already you’ve proved more valuable than we’d imagined. The summit is
critical to our survival, and we need every advantage we can get.”
Not
a persuading argument.
“I don’t want you to have
control over me,” I told him, and it was awful to hear my voice going wavery
with fear. “I don’t want you to know how I’m feeling. I got hired for this job,
and after it, I’m going back to my real life.”
“You don’t have a real life
anymore,” Andre said.
Well
damn it. See, I knew she should not have gone to this conference.
Andre
insists that she has to drink to strengthen their position. He comes closer and
Sookie closes her mouth tight and tries to fight him off, to no avail.
Then…Eric is there. He offers a suggestion. Since he and Sookie have exchanged
blood several times before, their connection will be stronger that hers would
be with Andre. Since Eric is under oath to the queen, that should suffice.
Andre agrees but insists they do it right then.
Sookie
is conflicted. On the one hand, being bonded to Eric would be better than being
bonded to Andre. However, being bonded to anyone sucks big time.
Both Eric and Bill had had
my blood, and I theirs. For the first time, I understood there was a real
connection. Didn’t I see the two of them as more human than vampire? Didn’t
they have the power to wound me more than any others? It wasn’t only my past
relationships with the two that kept me tied to them. It was the blood
exchange. Maybe because of my unusual heritage, they couldn’t order me around.
They didn’t have mind control over me, and they couldn’t read my thoughts; and
I couldn’t do any of those things to them. But we did share a tie. How often
had I heard their lives humming away in the background, without realizing what
I was listening to?
This
puts a whole new perspective to things. If she is right, then perhaps her
feelings for both of them aren’t real and never were. She had Bill’s blood
right after they met. Maybe if she never had, and he’d never had hers, then she
wouldn’t have “loved” him. Interesting thought.
Sookie
finally concedes and lets Eric bite her. Then he cuts his chest for her to take
his blood. I guess that was sorta nice since biting through flesh with human
teeth is super unpleasant. Eric gets all excited about the whole thing. Vampire
blood tastes sweet, Sookie informs us. Quinn barges in just when she’s done and
yells at people. Sookie pulls away from Eric, tells Andre she will finish this
job but will never work for them again, thanks Eric for not hurting her, and
leaves. But not before Eric shows off his boner to Quinn. Sookie tells Quinn
she’ll talk to him later and leaves them all there.
She
asks a worker where the baggage area is and heads that way. But part way there
she stops in an empty corridor and reaches up to her neck. It is still bleeding.
And she cries.
I
do feel sorry for her right here, but I can’t give too much sympathy because
she’s the one who chose to work for the vampires. She should have known
something would happen to her. And I just don’t think they’re ever going to let
her quit. Not a good decision.
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Chapter 12, tick tick tick….
Sookie
spends some time in the corridor trying to think about what she could have done
differently. She decides nothing. (Except not come on the trip! But she doesn’t
think of that.) She couldn’t have fought Andre. Eric could have but may have
lost. She could have chosen death over a bond, but that seems extreme. Living
is important, after all. So she decides to brush herself off and go on after
that suitcase.
There
are some uniformed men with shotguns down in the basement, where there are
docks for loadings and unloadings of stuff. Sookie sees some suitcases stacked
and goes over to find the one with Louisiana on it. Another man is there
looking through the cases. He’s looking for Iowa. When Sookie says that she is
working for Sophie-Anne, the man wants to know if she’s guilty. He has heard
about the trial, of course. No, Sookie tells him.
Sookie
wonders why they couldn’t just bring the suitcases up and the man says it is
some kind of liability issue or something. He finds his suitcase and Sookie
finds hers and they head out. One of the guards asks Sookie where she is going
with the suitcase and she tells him who she is and that Sophie-Anne sent her
down. Joe, a computer guy, checks that her name is on the list. Sookie tries to
read Joe’s mind and finds his thoughts are being guarded. Some kind of spell or
something is keeping people out of Joe’s mind. Suspect.
For
some reason, Sookie decides to ask if there are pictures next to the names on
the list. There aren’t. So then how can they know she is who she says she is? I
guess she wants to check on security measures some more. They don’t seem to be
superb. The guy gets all rude and tells her to take her damn suitcase and go.
Yankee rudeness, she decides.
She
heads back up to the queen’s suite, suitcase in hand. Outside the elevator she
sees a Pepsi can just sitting there. Or…she thinks it’s a Pepsi can until she
picks it up to throw it away. It’s heavy and not a cola can. The elevator door
opens again and Batanya comes out. She asks Sookie to step aside for the king
but she can’t move. Sookie suspects the can contains a bomb. Batanya calls down
to Clovache and tells her to alert the police and bomb squad and then heads
back down with the king.
Soon
Quinn bursts onto the floor with Todd Donati. They want her to put it down but
she is afraid to. She tries to convince herself that it is a camera or some spy
device. No big deal. Quinn says he will take it from her and she’s a little
surprised that he offered. I suppose she thought he would be pretty pissed
after what had happened earlier. And he may be but he still wants the can. But
she won’t give it to him. He accuses her of being a martyr for the vamps. I
don’t think that’s it necessarily. I think she’s just afraid of blowing up and
also she’s super stubborn.
Eric
arrives and she tells him to leave. He doesn’t but Donati says he will leave.
Well, can’t really blame him. Yeah, he’s kinda dying anyway, but he still has a
family that he’d like to spend his last days with. I’d prolly leave a stranger
with a bomb too. Of course, I’d never volunteer to be head of vampire hotel
security either. Eric tries to compel her to give him the can but she won’t.
That mind stuff doesn’t work on her, pal. He and Quinn continue trying to talk
her into putting it down but no.
The
bomb squad finally arrives… well, a robot arrives. It does some examining of
the device and then retreats. Eric says he doesn’t like how technology is so
impersonal. Strange. Then the actual bomb guys show up and they take the can.
Thankfully, it does not blow up. The bomb dude proceeds to carefully carry it
out and Sookie starts to collapse from the array of emotions she is
experiencing. Quinn catches her and tells her how stupid she is for holding
onto that bomb. But he’s telling her in a way that doesn’t seem so bad since
he’s so happy she’s alive.
Eric
has disappeared and Sookie can only be happy that what happened between her and
the vampires has not affected her relationship with Quinn. At least, not that
much. Now to answer 8,000 questions about what happened. What next? Who was
this bomb, if in fact it is a bomb, intended for? Is this why Kentucky has
invisible bodyguards? Who killed the Arkansas vampires? What is in that
mysterious suitcase? So many questions.
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Chapter 13, trials!
It
was a bomb. So say Donati, who is pretty sure he’s going to get fired. First a
murder, now a bomb? Yeah, that doesn’t look good for security. Though, as we’ve
discussed, it’s a bit lacking at this place. Donati does share his thoughts on
everything though. He thinks the murder and the bomb were separate, unrelated
incidents. It is possible that Jennifer or her people set the bomb before they
were killed but not likely. Also, according to Donati, who was been questioning
guests, Jennifer had a lot of enemies.
While
Donati is talking about working vampire security, Sookie gets distracted by “a
wave of warmth” which tells her Eric is coming. Uh-oh. She knows this last
blood exchange was significant.
I felt a constant awareness
of his presence when he was anywhere near me, and I had to believe it was the
same for him. There might be even more to the tie now, more that I just hadn’t
experienced yet.
Eric
comes in and she refuses to look at him. Yeah, she’s glad she didn’t have to
swap fluids with Andre, but she was still forced to swap at all and that sucks.
So pardon if she can’t be super thankful. I get it. She also realizes that she
feels comforted by his presence and isn’t happy about that either. Eric says
Bill is still selling his stuff downstairs. So? Who cares? That is why Bill did
not come to assist when Sookie was holding the bomb, Eric says. Eric made him
stay down there. I am happy to know that Sookie hadn’t even wondered where Bill was. Bill wanted to be the hero, Eric
says. Just like Quinn. And himself, which is strange, he thinks.
Donati
leaves and Sookie announces that she is leaving, too. The queen senses that
there is something wrong with her and asks what. Sookie rants about being
forced to do things against her will and then hang around those who forced her.
Sophie-Anne doesn’t seem to know what she is talking about. Sookie apologizes
for yelling and then excuses herself for bed.
Quinn
is waiting at her room and suggests they just climb in bed and sleep.
At that second, I saw how I
could come to love Quinn.
Because
he wants to sleep? I don’t know but I guess it might not be so bad if she loved
Quinn. But I’m still for Sam. I bet he would climb in bed and just sleep with her,
too. I wonder what he’s doing right now.
Before
they go to sleep she asks about upcoming summit events. Maybe the trial, he
says. And there’s a ball, but the hotel is throwing that event so he doesn’t
have to work at it. He wonders if she’ll dance with him or Eric. Then he
quickly says never mind, I guess not wanting to sound like a jealous a-hole.
“Forget it now, babe. We’re
here, now, in bed together like we ought to be.” Like we ought to be. That
sounded good.
He
also knows she learned his story and Sookie can tells he’s nervous about her
reaction. She kisses him and says she’s got no problem with him and will try to
like his sister. That’s something, I guess. They go to sleep for like half a
day and Sookie wakes up alone the next afternoon. Quinn left her a piece of
paper with a pair of lips drawn on it in her lipstick. She thinks it’s sweet. I
think it’s something a girl would do. Her roomie has not returned.
Speaking
of roomie… Sookie rings Amelia to check on things. The witch says she has been
working at the bar because Sam is short-handed. All his waitresses keep bailing
to go to vampire conferences and anti-vampire rallies and junk. Bless his
little wonderful heart. Amelia asks how Quinn is. He’s alright. What’s going
on? Nothing good. Terri wanted to know if Sookie wanted one of his new puppies,
Amelia says. She can go look at them when she gets home. A puppy? How does Bob
feel about this?
They
miss each other, they say, and will talk
more when Sookie gets back. If she gets back. Sookie decides to order room
service and Carla shows back up to share her food. The girl talks about
everything that is going on as if Sookie hadn’t experienced it all firsthand.
Then they take turns in the bathroom and get ready for the ball. Gervaise shows
up first to take Carla. Before Quinn shows Sookie’s pager goes off. The trial
is now. Wait, ugh! What about the ball? And then Quinn calls, of course. He
can’t go to the ball because he has to set up for the trial. He says maybe it
won’t take long and they can still go but this still sucks.
Sookie
refuses to change and goes to the trial looking super pretty. Andre seems
pretty upset (for Andre) when Sookie gets down. He doesn’t understand why there
is still a trial. But, in slightly better news, they put off the ball until
after the trial so maybe there is still a chance for dancing. Andre leads her
through a crowd of humans and vampires into the room where Mississippi and
Indiana were married. It is now set up like a court room.
On the spot where
Mississippi and his loved one had taken their vows, about midway between the
two lecterns, there sat a thronelike-chair. In it was an ancient woman with
wild white hair. I had never seen a vampire who had been turned when she was so
old, and though I’d sworn I wasn’t going to speak to him, I said as much to
Andre.
Andre
says this is the Ancient Pythoness, whatever that means. They go to take their
seats and Sookie sees familiar faces, including Johan Glassport, scummy lawyer.
On the plaintiff side is Henrick. So I guess being offered refuge by the queen
did not suit his fancy then? Cleo wonders aloud what will happen to all of them
if Sophie-Anne is found guilty. Prolly bad things. Sookie gets worried since
she apparently never thought of this. She says it’s because she grew up in
America where people are free and all, but still. Not one thought about what
would happen to her party if Sophie-Anne was guilty?
Eric,
Pam and Bill are all surrounding the queen and bowing to her and stuff. Andre
joins them but Cleo does not. Sookie asks the vamp who’s on the council of
judgers. Kentucky, Iowa, Wisconsin, Missouri, and Alabama. Mr. Cataliades’
brother-in-law is Henrik’s lawyer. The trial begins with Kentucky announces the
charges and asking Ancient Pythoness if she’s ready. Sookie notes the old
vampire is blind and asks Cleo why she’s the judge. But other vampires give her
the evil eye because they can all hear her whispering. So she shuts up.
Sophie-Anne
is called up front and Henrik starts stating his case. He says Sophie-Anne
lured Peter Thredgill to his death and then killed Jennifer so she could take
over the state of Arkansas. He says she will kill him too because she is a
liar. Sookie hears from his lawyer’s brain that someone told Henrik this.
Henrick was all ready to let the lawsuit go because he wasn’t a leader and
would rather serve under a new queen then try to run the state alone. But
someone had convinced him Sophie-Anne meant to kill him and he decided he would
try to kill her first by making sure she was found guilty. Sookie stands up and
tells Henrik the queen isn’t trying to kill him. Ancient Pythoness does not
appreciate this interruption.
Sookie
explains that she knows the truth and the Ancient one wants to know why she’s
even there then if her judgment is not needed. Don’t piss off the room full of
vampires, Sookie! But Sookie explains that she can hear the truth but can’t do
anything about it. Eric starts toward her and she feels encouraged and
stronger. I guess in this instance the bond is helpful. But then…
A shocking suspicion hit me
with the force of a Mack truck. Eric had given me enough blood now that I
qualified, hemoglobin-wise, as being close to a vampire; and my strange gift
had slopped over into fatal territory. I wasn’t reading Henrik’s lawyer’s mind.
I was reading Henrik’s.
Ah,
crap.
Ancient
Pythoness calls Sookie up to her and Eric goes up behind her. She explains that
Henrik incorrectly believes the queen plans to kill him because someone told
him that. Henrik seems a bit relieved by that but still accuses Sookie of
lying. AP wants to know if Sookie is a seer. Nope, just a telepath. Can she
read vampire minds? Sookie says no even though she apparently can. She says she
read the lawyer’s thoughts. The lawyer admits that he did know all of that
information and is not happy that Sookie got it from his thoughts.
Sophie-Anne
then speaks up for herself and explains that Peter was the one who planned to
kill her. He started the attack that killed not only other vampires, but also
Weres and humans. AP seems sympathetic to Sophie-Anne since she has suffered
even more losses because of the hurricane. The queen needs her inheritance from
her husband to help her rebuild. Johan asks if he needs to call hit witness (Sookie)
but AP says no need. She finds the queen innocent.
None
of the judges object to that so yay. AP asks Henrik who told him the queen
wanted him dead. Before the vamp can answer, someone shoots him through the
chest with an arrow. The vamps all hit the ground and AP wants to know WTH
happened. But then Quinn is jumping in front of Sookie and knocking her to the
ground. In the process, he gets shot with another arrow. Ah! Someone did not
want Henrik to talk.
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In
Chapter 14, more evil plots.
Batanya killed the assassin
with a throwing star.
So
there you go. Also, the vampire assassin had been throwing the arrows, not
shooting them. Since all of the Louisiana vampires had jumped to protect the
queen, Sookie is lucky Quinn came to
her rescue. Where were Eric and Bill? Just sayin. Quinn says he’s okay. He was
shot in the shoulder, so he’ll live. Sookie holds Cleo’s shirt against the
wound after Gervaise pulls the arrow out. Eric comes over and Sookie feels less
upset, and she hates it. Eric says he did not see the arrow. So is that why he
didn’t jump in front of her? She asks if he would have taken the arrow for her
and he says no. He might have died. But he would have tackled her if there had
been time. IF there had been time. Ever the charmer, Eric.
Eric
says he knows she may hate him for what happened but it was either him or
Andre. Yes, we know. But that doesn’t make this better. It doesn’t erase this
way too personal bond. He asks if she loves Quinn. She doesn’t know yet. Did
she love Eric? The paramedics come in then and haul Quinn off. But Eric wants
his answer.
“Did I love you?” I knew
Eric wasn’t going to give up, and I might as well figure out an answer. “Maybe.
Sort of. But I knew all along that whoever was with me, it wasn’t the real you.
And I knew sooner or later you’d remember who you were and what you were.” “You
don’t seem to have yes or no answers about men,” he said. “You don’t exactly
seem to know how you feel about me, either,” I said.
Touché.
He says she’s a mystery that he presumably wants to solve. Where did fairy
blood enter her family tree? She says that’s not his business but he seems to
think it is now that they are bonded. She hopes that will fade and he says soon
she will like it. I hope not. I’m finding it hard to be on Team Eric this time
around even though I was last time I read the books. Maybe it’s because I know
things… but I just can’t get down with his ways now that I’ve had two chances
to think about them.
Sookie
asks who the vampire was that tried to kill them. He doesn’t know and neither
does Batanya. They check the disintegrating vamp’s pockets and find an Illinois
driver’s license. His name was Kyle Perkins and he was a young vampire. Eric
tells Sookie he wants her to check out local archery places during the day to
see if Kyle visited any of them. Eric thinks this guy was a vampire hit man.
Someone hired him to silence Henrik if necessary. Sookie notices AP is gone and
asks Eric about her.
“The Ancient Pythoness is
the original oracle that Alexander consulted,” he said, his voice quite
neutral. “She was considered so revered that even in her old age, she was
converted by the very primitive vampires of her time. And now she has outlasted
all of them.”
Okay,
so I googled this because I was curious. I’m assuming Eric is talking about
Alexander the Great, who consulted Pythoness about a prophecy of him taking
over the world. The oracle had previously told his father Alexander would be a
great ruler. Just in case you people cared.
In
the meanwhile, the vamps have gotten rid of the body bits, taken down all court
related stuffs and set up for the ball. The party must go on. The music starts
and the DJ announces Sean and Layla, vampire dancers. They head out to the
middle of the floor and get down. Sookie admires their dancing abilities.
Then Eric said, “Let’s
dance,” and I found I couldn’t say no.
Like
for real couldn’t? Or just… she can’t find a good excuse not to? I hope it’s
the latter. We don’t need Eric being able to control her. They start dancing
and of course he’s good at it. Can all the men in these books dance? Could Bill
dance? I know Alcide could. He compliments her dress and then starts dancing so
fast, Sookie is flying. She has a good ole time and then excuses herself to the
bathroom thinking she should be with Quinn instead of dancing with Eric. Yes,
yes you should.
On
her way to the bathroom she sees Carla and Gervaise. The vampire is happy that
others are admiring his date and Sookie freaks when she realizes she is reading
his mind.
Was it just my knowledge of
men and their reactions or my knowledge of vampires, or could I really follow
vampire emotions better since I’d had Eric’s blood for a third time? Or had my
skill, or my talent, or my curse—whatever I called it—broadened to include
vampires since I was closer to being one myself? No. No, no no. I felt like
myself. I felt human. I felt warm. I was breathing.
Here
again I say these are not thoughts of someone who wants to be a vampire. She
tries again to convince herself that all of this will fade with time. I hope
so. Ugh.
She
runs into Jake Purifoy and they chat about the trial. Then he mentions how he
can’t change into a wolf anymore (he tried) and he’s still sad about it. I feel
bad for Jake. He never wanted to be a vampire either and now he’s
stuck…forever. Charlaine, don’t let this happen to Sookie.
Sookie
goes on to the bathroom and does her business. All seems fine until she goes to
leave and the bathroom attendant lady glares at her like she’s Voldemort. Odd.
She wanders back out into the crowd and finds the queen, who has no business
for her to attend to. She tries to get an update on Quinn, but no luck. She
does find her a weather witch. Remember when she was talking about how someone
could have hired a witch to predict the weather so the summit could be pushed
back after Sophie-Anne had lost everything? Not such a crazy theory, it turns
out.
His
name is Julian Trout. His wife Olive is with him. She doesn’t know he’s a
witch. She finds out Julian is a weatherman for a local channel. She takes them
to meet Gervaise and says the queen wants to meet someone like Julian. Julian
looks nervous and his wife confused but Gervaise leads them to meet the queen.
Sookie doesn’t think the queen will harm the humans. Umm… yeah sure.
Sookie
finds Barry and asks him to dance. He seems reluctant. Hey maybe Barry can’t
dance. But they have fun anyway… until Eric shows up. He’s all “what are you
doing?” and she’s about to give him a piece of her mind because he does not own
her. But before she can, they are interrupted Sean and Layla. Sean asks Sookie
to dance. He sensed they were about to fight and thought he’d step in. They
compliment each other on their dancing abilities and Sean says his is all due
to Layla. He says they’ve been dancing partners longer than life partners. Only
a few years for both. They chat about Sean’s life (he’s from Ireland, Layla’s
from Tennessee, they’re thinking of moving there…) He says the Fellowship has
too much of a presence in the city nowadays. Also, he thinks it won’t be long
until the Weres reveal themselves to the world. So we keep hearing.
Sean
fears a civil war between Fellowshippers and supes. Someone just needs to take
out the Fellowship right now. That would solve a lot of problems, but I guess
there are always going to be haters. The idea is not appealing to anyone. But
Sookie has enough problems to deal with without adding the possibility of war
to the list. She decides she really needs to go check on Quinn. She doesn’t
know where he is but decides to check with Jake. He may not be a Were anymore,
but he has a private room and probably still cares about Quinn.
She
gets to his room and ‘hears’ some human brains inside, along with one vampire.
Jake. One of the humans is thinking “they will all die”. Who will? She knocks
anyway and Jake comes to the door, looking grim. She asks if Quinn is with him.
Jake says they have barely spoken since he turned. He can’t seem to mesh his
old life and his new one very well. He does say he helped carry Quinn to the
infirmary. Sookie notices he doesn’t let her see inside the apartment and
wonders if he is involved in some kind of plot, one that people keep
speculating about.
She
calls to find out where the infirmary is and then sneaks back up to see who
comes out of Jake’s room. She recognizes Joe, the man from the basement. Jake
spots her and she asks if he wants to go with her to see Quinn (good cover). He
says no. It’s too hard for him to be around Weres anymore. He’s not the same
guy he was. She feels super bad for him. Yeah, me too. But he’s still
suspicious.
On
the way to the infirmary, Sookie can’t help but feel resentful that things are
going so good for Sophie-Anne and so not good for her. She’s done all this crap
for them, she’s the reason Sophie-Anne and her vampires aren’t dead… really
dead… and all she’s gotten is a shot boyfriend and a blood tie to Eric. Also
she almost got blown up by a Pepsi bomb. She decides she’s had worse nights.
Sadly, that is true.
She
finds the infirmary and goes in to see Quinn. He’s doing pretty good
considering. Quinn asks if she’s there to dump him for Eric. No, she says. But
she wants to tell him what has been happening. She does and he asks if she
knows that Eric can just turn her into a vampire whenever he wants now that
they’ve shared blood so much. She tries to defend…something… by saying that
anyone could be turned at any time but we all know it would be much easier for
Eric to turn her. HE BETTER NOT! She says
there’s nothing she can do about it and Quinn suggests staking.
I felt a pang in my heart
that almost had me clapping a hand to my chest.
Quinn
senses she wouldn’t want that to happen. Well no, she says. Does she care about
him? Yeah. They were together for a while, she says. But really they weren’t.
It was like a week. Tops. He must have made an impression.
Quinn
says he doesn’t know what to do. He really likes Sookie but he’s not willing to
share her. She says she doesn’t want to be shared and she’s only with him…if
he’ll still have her. But he just doesn’t know what to say. Except that if Eric
were dead, no problems. But Sookie would have a problem if he killed Eric.
Quinn says they should talk about it again when they’ve had sleep and he’s not
all injured.
I leaned over so far I
thought I was going to fall on top of him, and I kissed him, just a quick pressure
of my mouth on his. But then he held my shoulder and pulled me back to him, and
there was much more to explore, his warmth and intensity…
Well,
at least they have their chemistry. If nothing else ever. He’s all in pain
though so they can’t keep it up. Quinn says he doesn’t want what happened to
mess up their relationship and she says she doesn’t either. Clovache is waiting
on her in the hall when she exits the room. Clovache says Quinn seems like a
good man whereas all vampires are twisty and deceptive. Can’t disagree there.
Clovache then decides to tell Sookie why she and Batanya were hired to guard
Kentucky. Apparently he had found a Fellowship spy among his entourage.
Before
he killed the spy, he got her to confess some things. One of these was that the
Fellowship had heard about the vampire summit and had planned something against
the vamps. But Clovache doesn’t think the soda bomb or the murder of the
Arkansas vamps were Fellowship work. Donati had discovered from police that the
soda bomb would not have blown up anything much. It was mostly intended to
scare people. But Clovache doesn’t think the Fellowship would have set off
something so small when they most likely have a bigger plot brewing. Also, no
way a human could have killed a whole room of vampires.
Back
at the ball, Sophie-Anne is getting lots of attention from kings, queens,
Christian… But she wants to speak with Sookie. The queen had spoken to Julian
Trout and doesn’t think he knew why he was predicting the weather and
presumably she doesn’t plan to harm them. She tells Sookie to take the rest of
the night off. Sookie heads back to her room, but when Carla doesn’t come back and
with Quinn in the infirmary…she’s alone with plenty of time to think of the
dangerous situation she has found herself in. If she wanted to avoid trouble,
she should have just never spoken to Bill.
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Chapter 15, have you seen this man?
Sookie
has a bad night of non-sleep sleep. Maybe because of the blood exchange. Maybe
not. The next morning, she decides she needs to be around humans. She heads
down to get some breakfast and runs into Barry. They eat and she reads over the
day’s agenda, which she had found stuck under her door that morning. She sees
that there are a few other trials scheduled for the day and Barry says they
will probably have to be there since there are human witnesses. He also says
Bill is supposed to be a judge. The judges for regular cases in vampire trials
are chosen like human juries are, out of a pool. Sookie tries not to be sour
thinking about Bill. Maybe he’d be a good judge. Who cares.
Sookie
asks Barry if he wants to run and errand with her and he says sure. The waiter
brings Sookie an envelope that was left for her at the front desk. It has a
picture of Kyle Perkins, assassin, and a note from Bill. He made a list of
archery places in the city she should visit. Still no points for you, Bill. While
Sookie waits on Barry to go get his coat or something, Todd Donati comes over
to talk to her. Christian is interested in hooking up with Sophie-Anne. And not
just sexually. Donati says Christian is old-fashioned and doesn’t believe women
can think for themselves. Then he tells Sookie to get Sophie-Anne to ask for
the security tapes from outside of her room the day the Pepsi bomb was found.
It
would appear that Donati suspects Christian may have been responsible for that.
But why? Weird.
Barry
gets back down and the car Eric arranged for them to drive arrives. They head
out, Sookie a little worried about driving in the city. She manages though and
Barry navigates them to the first place, Straight Arrow. The men running the
place think how Southerners are stupid and so screw them! Damn Yankees. Anyway.
They don’t recognize Kyle so moving on. Their second stop is no more helpful,
just more rude people working there who haven’t seen Kyle.
The
third shop proves to be the most beneficial. The young girl working behind the
counter starts crushing on Barry the minute they walk in. He asks if she’s seen
Kyle and she has! Yay! But she says she doesn’t remember if anyone was with
him, but she’ll let Barry look at the security tapes. How trusting is this
girl? But she says she can’t let them see it until she gets off from work since
she’s the only one there. Her replacement comes in at seven so she tells them
to come back then. Well, she tells Barry to come back then.
Sookie
calls to leave a message for the queen to let her know what she’s doing and why
she won’t be at the hotel when the vamps get up. While they wait for seven
o’clock, they eat some cake and drink some coffee.
It was a continuing relief
to find that I was just as hungry as I normally was. Nothing vampy about me, no
sir!
Relief
for me as well. They stop for gas and drive through the city and then head back
to the archery range. But all is not well. The door to the place is hanging
open and inside the flirty chick is dead. Someone threw up on the floor.
Awesome. Sookie wonders if she can get to the security equipment, now more than
ever. Neither her nor Barry sense any brains, alive or dead, and she tells him
to go wait outside. I don’t think I would have done that, but okay. Sookie goes
in the back and finds an office and sure enough, video equipment. But all of
the security tapes are melted in a burning pile. Someone destroyed them.
Also
Sookie finds another body. A man who was presumably the replacement for the
dead girl. Sookie hits the store panic button with her elbow so as not to leave
any prints and leaves quickly. Back in the car, Barry is feeling all kinds of
guilty about the bodies. He thinks they should do something. Tell the police
what happened, but they can’t do that. It would just bring the police into the
hotel asking questions to really old powerful vampires. The vampires would not
be happy with Sookie and Barry. Not at all.
Eric
shows up as Barry is semi-yelling at Sookie for being unfeeling about what
happened. Barry leaves, not really wanting to see Sookie anymore ever and Eric
wants to know what they found out. He leads her back to his and Pam’s room,
which turns out to be just an ordinary room with coffins in it. She explains
what happened that day with the girl in the archery range. Eric wants to know
why Barry was mad at her and she tells him. It’s not much of a comfort that
Eric thinks she did the right thing.
There’s
a knock on the door and Sookie gets up to answer it when Eric doesn’t move to.
She says it’s not a sexist thing, but a status thing. I still don’t like it.
The knocker turns out to be Bill. She lets him in and then leaves without a
word to either of them. Good thinking! Carla is naked again when Sookie gets
back to the room. I guess some people are just more comfortable that way. Carla
says she’s not going to any of the trials because humans aren’t invited. Her
and Gervaise have a date later and Sookie warns her to be careful. Carla thinks
she can handle the vampire but Sookie tells her she can’t.
“He’s nuts about me.” “Until
he stops being nuts. Or until a vamp older than Gervaise takes a shine to you,
and Gervaise gets all conflicted.”
Maybe
you should take some of your own advice, Sookie. Dating vampires in this world
of hierarchy does not seem appealing. I am very thankful to be an American in
times like this. The thought of being traded… having to go be with someone
because of their power, is disgusting and I feel bad for women who really have
to go through that.
Carla
asks about Sookie’s new tie to Eric and Sookie says it’s not forever and will
wear off. Sookie promises herself that she will not go anywhere with vampires
ever again.
I let the lure of the money
and the excitement of the travel pull me in. But I won’t do that again.
Yeah,
we’ll see.
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In
Chapter 16, something weird is going on.
The
first case in the trial surrounds a vampire named Michael who is suing vamp
Jodi for breaking one of his fangs off while he was sleeping. Jodi says she did
it because Michael was torturing a human woman. She was offending him, Michael
said. Jodi took offense to this because the girl was a sister of one of Jodi’s
employees and so the girl was under her protection. Jodi had warned Michael to
leave the girl alone, but he wouldn’t. She also says he is giving vamps a bad
name and can’t be stopped.
Dahlia,
one of the judges in the trail (FYI Charlaine Harris has written several short
stories about Dahlia), decides Michael is the guilty party and gives Jodi
permission to stake him, which she does. Sookie is the only one shocked by the
whole thing. Vampire justice is serious.
The
second case deals with a vamp who turned a kid, which is frowned upon. The
kid’s parents brought her to court because as part of their agreement, Cindy
Lou the vampire was supposed to ensure they got to see their son regularly. The
kid had been dying and his parents agreed to let Cindy Lou (who had always
wanted a kid) turn him in exchange for getting to see him. They also agreed to
pay the vampire for their son’s expenses. But the boy refuses to see his
parents now. The judges rules the boy must visit his human parents as stated in
the contract and if he injures them or kills them, he will be punished… over
and over.
Andre
comes to Sookie after with a sad attempt at an apology for the blood tie thing.
Too late for that. Sophie-Anne says she will need Sookie for a few hours for
Commerce, whatever that is. Mr. C arrives without his niece and with odd news.
Diantha went to check on an extra coffin that was left downstairs. How could
there be an extra coffin? Don’t vamps need those? And why would they need to
bring an extra? Sookie also notices one of the waiters acting strangely. He
seems to be avoiding her. And Barry, who has arrived with Stan.
Mr.
C says the queen needs Sookie to be present for some dealings with vampires to
make sure they’re being honest. Although, if I were a master vampire, I don’t
think I’d go running around telling my secrets to my human lackeys. She agrees
but tells Mr. C that he’d better check on his niece because someone suspect is
going on. Sookie sits through hours of meetings with Sophie-Anne, bored. She
never sees Quinn and wonders if he’s avoiding her on purpose since he should be
mostly healed by now.
Sophie-Anne
invited Dahlia to the suite and Christian Baruch follows. They’re all chilling
in the suite when Jake arrives. He’s been out fetching theater tickets for the
queen. He and Sookie start talking and she asks what he plans to do with his
free time the next day. He doesn’t know, he says, but he tells Sookie that she
should go shopping. In fact, he seems kinda adamant about it. Hmm… She asks
about Quinn and Jake says he’s only seen him in passing.
Andre
dismisses Sookie and before she leaves, she tells him she thinks Christian was
responsible for the Pepsi bomb. Sookie thinks that Christian planted the bomb
to scare the queen and then planned to be her knight and shining armor or
something. She also thinks he might have been the one to tell Henrik
Sophie-Anne was going to kill him so she would have to go to trial but then he
could swoop in and save her again. Just a theory. Sookie tells Andre what
Donati said about the security tape.
She
runs into Bill on the way back to her room and she congratulates him on his
computer program selling ability. He says he would give back all the money if
he could change their past. Sookie informs him that’s never going to happen. He
wants to know if she loves Quinn, or Eric, or JB. JB? What? LOL. But she says
he doesn’t have a right to ask for that information and hops on the elevator.
Sookie wonders why he asked about JB because she would never go there. Maybe
he’s still hung up on that football game thing.
Sookie
puts on her pjs and gets in bed, tired from the day’s activities. Maybe she
will finally get a good night’s sleep. But don’t count on that.
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In
Chapter 17, BOOM!
Sookie
wakes up to Barry screaming in her head. Get up! he’s saying. She puts on her
slippers, grabs her wallet (since it has her room key in it) and her cell phone
and goes to meet him at the elevators. On her way, she sees Jake passed out on
the floor. Barry comes running when he hears her cry out and they both wonder
what he was doing out there. Vampires can always tell when the sun is coming up
so what was he doing on the human floor so close to daylight? Barry thinks he
was heading to Sookie’s room and just didn’t make it.
Sookie
thinks about the mysterious men leaving his room and comes to the realization
that he is in on whatever plot is going down. Sookie runs to find Mr. C and
Diantha while Barry goes for his roommate. Sookie’s roomie never came back to
the room so who even knows where she is. They acquire said peeps and meet back
up. Sookie explains how some of the waiters have been avoiding her and Barry
and that whatever they are planning, Jake is in on it. Sookie thinks this plan
has something to do with the extra coffin and suitcases. Bombs, Diantha
guesses.
They
need to get everyone out, but they can’t raise the vamps cause it’s day. Sookie
thinks of Quinn and immediately calls his cell phone. She tells him the
building is going to blow up and he needs to get out. Barry’s roommate, Cecile,
runs and pulls the fire alarm. This has the desired effect of awakening the
humans and Cecile ushers them down the stairs. Mr C. says he and Diantha will
go attempt to save the queen’s party. Diantha also calls 911 because they are
going to need assistance. Barry goes to save his own party and Sookie remembers
Eric and Pam. She heads off to their room.
The
Britlingens are carrying Kentucky out, wrapped in blankets. Sookie runs into a
maid and demands her master key and then tells her to get out immediately. Then
there are explosions.
There was a deep, resounding
quiver and a boom from way below my feet, as if some gargantuan sea creature
were making its way to the surface.
She
gets into Eric’s room and starts yelling at him and Pam, who are dead asleep.
Pun intended. Pam doesn’t stir at all but Eric does. Probably because he’s so
old and stuff. She tells him he has to get up and smacks him as hard as she can
when he doesn’t. He sits and she puts the black robe near the bed over his head
and fastens it. Eric is trying not to fall asleep. Sookie remembers how Bill
somewhat walked during the day that one time. Speaking of, why hasn’t she been
worried about him? He’s not in the queen’s suite where Mr. C was going. Sookie
tells Eric he has to help with Pam since the female vamp still won’t wake up at
all. Eric finally gets up and helps her push one coffin to the window. The
whole building is shaking during all of this, just think about that. Makes it
more dramatic. They get Pam in the coffin and slam it into the glass to break
it.
I thought about Bill, and
Rasul flashed across my mind, but there was nothing I could do, and there
wasn’t any time left.
So
Bill’s grouped in with Rasul now? I guess she really is done with him. Oh well.
Sorry, Bill. Not really though.
And Eric saw sunlight for
the first time in a thousand years. He screamed, a terrible, gut-wrenching
noise. But in the next instant, he pulled the cloak tight around him. He
grabbed me and hopped astride the coffin, and we pushed off with our feet. For
just a fraction of a minute, we hung in the balance, and then we tilted
forward. In the most awful moment of my life, we went out the window and began
tobogganing down the building on the coffin.
That
sounds terrifying. Also kinda cool. Luckily, Eric is awake enough to fly a
little so he and Sookie do not crash into the ground. The coffin crashes though
and Pam falls out and starts burning. Eric lands them and then covers Pam with
his robe. The EMTs have arrived and Sookie tells them to take Pam and Eric out of
the sun. They don’t know where to take them, but Sookie says just find a
basement somewhere. After Pam and Eric are loaded up, Sookie goes back to help
some more.
There was more glass raining
down, and part of the bottom floor appeared to be collapsing. That would be due
to some of the larger explosive-packed coffin bombs in the shipping and
receiving area. Another explosion came from around the sixth floor, but on the
other side of the pyramid.
A
blue suitcase comes flying out of one of the windows and Sookie makes a run for
it. The bomb goes off when it hits the ground but luckily Sookie had gotten far
enough away. The building is continuing to collapse. Sookie spots a partially
open coffin and runs to close it. How nice. Then she sees Mr. C at one of the
open windows above. She get the attention of the firemen who use their bucket
to ride up and get him and someone he is carrying. Sookie keeps helping look for survivors. She
finds a few vampires and Donati, who is still alive.
I had a smell in my nose
that just wouldn’t go away, and I hated it. It was coating my lungs inside, I
thought, and I’d spend the rest of my life breathing it in and breathing it
out. The odor was composed of burning building materials, scorched bodies, and
disintegrating vampires. It was the smell of hatred.
She
should really be wearing a mask or something. She’s gonna get some kind of lung
disease. Sookie has decided to give up searching when she sees some debris
moving. Underneath is Bill. Oh yay, he lived. :/ She bends to keep the sun off of him and
yells for help. Bill says he knew she’d find him. Probably wouldn’t be nice of
her to say she found him by accident. When someone arrives to cover him with a
blanket and stuff she gets up and hears a familiar brain pattern. Quinn’s.
He
and his sister and lying under some debris. Frannie is out but Quinn’s awake. A
fireman had run off to get help for them. Quinn tells Sookie he might have to
change their plans and take care of Frannie for a few weeks. So no month of
time together after all. Things are not looking good for this relationship. She
says okay, but it’s not. At least he’s alive though. They hear another groan
coming from nearby. Sookie checks and it is Andre. He seems alright. Unfortunately.
She sees a piece of wood and thinks seriously about just killing him but she
can’t do it. Too much death already.
Quinn
says they have help coming and she can leave. She feels hurt that he wants her
to leave but he says she needs to help other people.
I’d gone maybe two yards
when I heard him begin to move. But after a moment of stillness, I kept
walking.
Oh,
I get it.
Sookie
hears Barry’s voice in her head, which is a big relief. He says he’s okay but
Cecile died. Sadness. He says he thought of something they could do. If they get
together and hold hands, much like they did in the lobby that day, they can
help find the living in the debris. It takes them a while to get anyone to pay
them any mind but finally one guy agrees to help them. Sookie asks to be put in
one of the buckets and strangely, the firemen let them in. They manage to
locate several people, which impresses the hell out of the firemen.
Then
Sookie tells the fire chief he better not send anyone out after dark because
the injured vamps will be hungry and as we know, when they’re hungry they have
no impulse control at all. The chief wants to know Barry and Sookie’s names so
they can be thanked publicly but they don’t give them. They can already tell
from the chief’s thoughts that he could really use them for all of his cases
and they don’t want that. Plus if the country finds out, more and more people
will want to use them. Good point.
They
know they can’t go to the shelter where everyone is either because someone
might recognize them and speak their names out loud and give them away. Sookie
miraculously still has her cell phone in her pocket (my pjs don’t even have
pockets. L) and calls Mr. C. She explains their situation and
that they need a place to stay for the night. She asks about everyone and
here’s the report: Diantha, Rasul and Andre are missing, Gervaise is dead, the
Queen is injured (she was the one he was carrying), Eric, Pam, Cleo and Bill
are alright. Jake is also MIA and Sookie tells Mr. C her suspicions about him.
Wait, did she not do that earlier? Oh well. Also Johan Glassport is alive,
which is not great news, but he’ll be super pissed when he finds out about Jake,
Mr. C says.
Stan
is injured badly but Mr. C will tell Joseph Velasquez Barry is going with
Sookie somewhere else to stay. Mr. C is going to send a cab to pick them up.
Since Sookie has her wallet, and Barry has his, they have enough money to rent
a room at a cheap hotel. The “cheap hotel” turns out to be not so cheap but
they have enough money to get a room. The maid offers to wash their clothes
since they’re all dirty and they don’t have anymore.
Barry
goes right to sleep and Sookie jumps in the shower. The maid brings them
toothpaste and toothbrushes and other essentials. How nice. Then naked Sookie
gets into bed with naked Barry and goes to sleep too.
What
an exhausting day.
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In
Chapter 18, mysteries solved.
I know there are many worse
things than waking up naked in a bed with someone you don’t know very well. But
when my eyes fluttered open the next day, I couldn’t think of any, for five
long minutes.
I
mean…it depends on who it is. That’s all I’m saying.
Lucky
for Sookie, Barry gets up pretty quickly and goes to take his own shower.
Our clean clothes were in a
bag hanging on our inside doorknob, and there was a USA Today, too.
Okay.
Here’s what is wrong with that sentence. Inside doorknob. Like the doorknob on
the inside of the door. Like in the room. Where they were sleeping. Naked. So
the maid just let herself back in during the night or what? That’s creepy.
Sookie
gets dressed, drops Barry’s clothes in the bathroom, and makes some coffee.
When Barry emerges he wants to know what all went down because his mind is a
little hazy on the previous day’s events. Sookie explains everything and then
calls Mr. C and tells him where they are. He arrives like a minute later it
seems like. He says Sophie-Anne lost both her legs and it’s unclear whether or
not they would grow back. Sigebert emerged after dark, he’s alright. Stan is
still pretty injured, Joseph is in charge and Rachael is dead. Still no word on
Diantha. Carla, Sookie’s roomie, is also dead.
Mr.
C says the body of someone in a hotel uniform had some sort of list in his
pocket. Of what? Names of guests? Names of targets? Anyway Sookie doesn’t think
everyone in the hotel was in on it. Neither does Barry…because he heard them
talking the night before the bomb blew. He had noticed waiters avoiding him so
he followed them and heard them talking about getting the vampires and their human slaves. He never heard
exactly what they were going to do though and so tried to go to bed. But he
couldn’t so that’s when he’d brain-contacted Sookie that something was wrong.
He
cries and says he knows it was wrong not to say anything before to the vamps,
but he didn’t want the humans to be killed in the off chance that he’d heard
wrong. Bless his heart, he just didn’t know what to do.
Sookie
asks Mr. C about Quinn. He’s at a regular hospital and Sookie says she needs to
go see him. But her and Barry are both still afraid of being exposed.
“I guess I could be saving a
lot of people,” I said. I’d just never thought about it before. I’d never been
faced with a situation like the one we’d faced the previous day. I hoped I
never was again. How likely was it I would ever be onsite again at a disaster?
Was I obligated to give up a job I liked, among people I cared about, to work
for strangers in far away places? I shivered when I thought of it. I felt
something harden within me when I realized that the advantage Andre had taken
of me would only be the beginning, in situations like that. Like Andre,
everyone would want to own me.
Like
I said before, it’s not fair to expect Barry and Sookie to spend their lives
saving people. They deserve to live the way they want. And I don’t think that’s
selfish at all.
Mr.
C doesn’t think going to the hospital would be a good idea but Sookie says she
has to. The queen and Stan have paid for a plane together to get the Louisiana
and Texas vampires back home. Mr. C gives Sookie and Barry some cash and says
if they make it to the airport on time, they can ride back. If not, they’re on
their own. Where is the gratitude for saving their undead asses?
Before
Mr. C leaves, Sookie explains her theories about Christian Baruch. She told
Andre but you know…I’m pretty sure he’s dead. Also, when she found Donati in
the debris the day before, he’d been thinking about Christian and how he’d
watched the security tapes from outside Sophie-Anne’s room and recognized
Christian as the one who’d covered the camera. Apparently Christian wants to
open a new vampire hotel in New Orleans and be the king to Sophie-Anne’s queen.
So
two mysteries solved. Baruch set the Pepsi bomb and the Fellowship blew up the
hotel. But… who killed the Arkansas vampires? Mr. C says they should just
forget about that.
Who’d thought she had a good
chance of skipping a trial altogether, if Jennifer Cater was silenced? Who’d
prepared the way to be admitted to Jennifer’s room, by the simple means of a
phone call? Who’d had a good long moment of telepathic communication with her
underlings before she began the artificial flurry of primping for the impromptu
visit? Whose bodyguard had been coming out of the stairway door just as we were
exiting the suit?
Sophie-Anne,
that’s who. Theory is, Sophie-Anne called Jennifer to say they were coming
down. Sigebert went down, was admitted and killed them all. Then he returned to
escort Sophie-Anne down. He went in to check the room to explain why his scent
was in there. Things were good until Henrik decided to keep the trial going so
he was taken care of. Who hired Kyle Perkins? Maybe, Mr. C says, he was ready
to die anyway and wanted to make money for his family in the process. But why
would she be sent looking for who hired him then? Not everyone knows
everything, he says.
So
Eric and Bill didn’t know the queen had hired Kyle. And Sophie-Anne and Andre
hadn’t known Sookie was looking for anyone…until she called and left that
message for them. Well damn.
Mr.
C leaves and Barry says he really wants to be on that plane. But Sookie doesn’t
think she can handle that. She’s gonna get a car or take a bus home. They don’t
exactly part on the best terms. Barry is still upset with her for choices she’s
made but he hugs her goodbye before he leaves for the airport.
Since
the hospital isn’t that far away, Sookie walks over there, stopping to get a
hotdog from a street vendor along the way. New experiences and all that. The
nurses won’t tell her anything about Quinn but she picks the room number out of
their heads and sneaks up to it. Quinn is sleeping but Frannie is there, awake
and bandaged. Sookie asks how Quinn is and Frannie says he’s alright. Then the
girl talks about what happened after Sookie called Quinn before the explosion.
He went to wake her and as they were headed out, some ceiling fell on him. Then
the floor fell out from under them. When Frannie woke up she found out Quinn
had two broken legs. Well hey, at least he doesn’t have two missing legs like
the queen.
The
doctors are impressed by how fast he’s healing and Frannie thinks they’re going
to have to hire someone to delete all of his records from the system. Sookie
gives Frannie some money tells her to go get some new clothes and shower and
she’ll wait with Quinn. He wakes up a little and Sookie just starts talking
about all of her theories regarding summit events. Quinn never responds since he’s
mostly out of it, but it makes her feel better to talk I guess. Then Frannie is
back and wants to know if Sookie loves her brother.
It’s
too soon, Sookie says and Frannie says they’ll be going back to Memphis for a
while. Not the best news for their relationship. But Sookie has to get back to
Bon Temps. Frannie offers her car since she and Quinn drove separately. She
says they can pick up the car once they’re all healed and stuff. Sookie is
surprised since she thought Frannie didn’t like her, but Frannie says Quinn
really cares about Sookie and so she must be okay.
I
kinda have a feeling Sookie and Quinn’s relationship is over. Maybe he’ll come
around in the next book and prove me wrong, but I think this is it. Oh well.
He’s still not my favorite or anything, though I like him much better than the
first time I read the books. Maybe he will find happiness elsewhere.
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In
Chapter 19, so many weddings!
It
takes Sookie two days to drive back home. She says she sleeps but not where. I
mean, I guess she had some money but not much. Did she sleep in the car? That
isn’t safe.
She
finally arrives back home and is greeted by Amelia who is chilling on the front
porch with Bob. Amelia is thrilled to have her back. Everyone heard about the
explosion and have been worried about her. The girls take a moment to mourn the
loss of Sookie’s new clothes and then Amelia drops a bomb shell.
“Guess what?” Amelia said.
“Your friends got married.”
Huh?
Which friends? Sam better not have married anyone! This is the book of
marriages apparently.
But
at that moment another car pulls into the driveway. It is Tara. She saw Sookie
drive by her shop and had to come see her.
“Sookie, I know this is
going to sound crazy,” Tara said, and I felt my brows draw together. “While you
were gone, everything just clicked in a strange way, like something I’d known
should happen, you know?” I shook my head. I didn’t know. “JB and I got
married!”
That
was fast. I remember Tara considering sleeping with JB in Sookie’s memory.
Guess she did and really liked it. But hey, I’m happy for them. Sookie says she
is, even though she’s not sure how to feel. It seems soon and she’s still got
Rhodes on her mind. And her own relationship…
I would do my best to
smother the memory of that moment when I’d glanced back to see Quinn pulling
himself along by his elbows. He’d reached Andre, who lay mute and stricken.
Quinn had propped himself on one elbow, reached out with his other hand,
grabbed the piece of wood lying by Andre’s leg and jammed it into Andre’s
chest. And, just like that, Andre’s long life was over. He’d done it for me.
How could I be the same person? I wondered. How could I be happy that Tara had
gotten married and yet remember such a thing—not with horror, but with a savage
sense of pleasure? I had wanted Andre to die, as much as I had wanted Tara to
find someone to live with who would never tease her for her awful past, someone
who would care for her and be sweet to her. And JB would do that.
Theoretically, then, I was
delighted and hopeful for my two friends. But I couldn’t feel it. I’d seen
awful things, and I’d felt awful things. Now I felt like two different people
trying to exist inside the same space.
Sookie
tries to convince herself that if she stays away from vampires and Weres that
she’ll be okay. She’s not happy with the person she is becoming by hanging
around the supes and I think is a little afraid of losing herself…or maybe
revealing her true self. I really don’t think that deep down Sookie is some
savage unfeeling person, but maybe she’s not as kind hearted as I may have
wanted to believe. She didn’t seem too sad about getting that man and girl
killed at the archery range. Now I’ll admit, I am not the least bit sad Andre
is dead, and I’m glad Quinn killed him. So I can’t fault her for being glad. He
deserved that. And I guess having some tough skin and slightly hardened heart
isn’t such a bad thing.
Remember
what Alcide said, back in Club Dead,
about not feeling guilty about everything because sooner or later they’ll be
things you have to feel guilty about?
Maybe we can apply that here. Barry was really upset that the archery people
died and Sookie wasn’t even though it was kind of her fault. But with
everything else going on in her life, spending a lot of time feeling guilty
about it won’t fix anything. She
didn’t kill them, after all. Andre did. And now he’s dead so…
I
don’t know. Maybe she’d make a good vampire, but I still don’t want her to be
one.
And
that brings us to the end of book 7, All
Together Dead. This book was pretty exciting and I liked getting to see
Barry again, even though I’m not sure he knows what he’s gotten himself into,
working with vampires. I’m glad Bill is still out and I’m not sure how I feel
about this blood bond thing. I do wonder what will happen to Sophie-Anne now.
Will she still be the queen? Will Quinn and Sookie be able to work out their
problems? How is JB and Tara’s marriage gonna go?
Don’t
worry, folks. There are still 6 books left, some short stories and a novella.
It’s going to be fun, exciting, terrifying, devastating, and all kinds of
crazy. So stay tuned.
Next
up, Lucky.
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