Calvin, a werepather from an isolated and very strange small town, is courting her. Sam, Sookie's boss, is a shapeshifter and interested (but only after she starting dating Bill). Eric, Head vampire in the area and Bill's boss, desperately wants to know what happened when he had amnesia and stayed with Sookie (book #3). She is definitely not seeing her first boyfriend, Vampire Bill.

After having no love life for most of her life (the local men would rather think she's nuts rather than telepathic), Sookie's current love life is a mess. Sookie Stackhouse, the telepathic barmaid, has been dragged into vampire politics before (and hated it) and now is about to be heavily involved in werewolf politics - the succession of the packmaster of Shreveport. Harris has created an intrecate polical structure for the different supernaturals ('supes')who either hate, ignore or tolerate the other supes with the vampires being the most organized.

however, it's much more enjoyable to read the others first, so that the interactions between the major and minor characters are clear.

Harris has created a fascinating universe in which the vampires have come out of the coffin, but the shapeshifters, fairies and others definitely have not! This is the 4th in the series and can be read without reading the other books. mystery series.Telepathic barmaid, shapeshifters, vampires! Natural and humorous dialogue and a nicely paced plot that doesn't dwell so much on Sookie's old boyfriends help make this entry the best yet in the series. Harris does an admirable job of creating a heroine who's not only interesting but completely believable in a world of the strange and the different. If trying to discover who's behind the shootings isn't enough, the telepathic cocktail waitress from Bon Temps, La., has to cope with a few other distractions: her sexy 'Were' friend, Alcide Herveaux, needs her help in his father's bid to become the next leader of the local werewolf pack her boss, Sam Merlotte (a collie in his spare time), gets shot her house partly burns down and what's she to do about the handsome vampire bartender who dresses as a pirate at Sam's place? Between one mishap and another, Sookie is one busy gal. Harris's rousing fifth Sookie Stackhouse fantasy-mystery (after 2004's Dead to the World) pits vampires, were-creatures, shifters and one fairy godmother against a sniper with an apparent aversion to nonhumans.

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