Synopsis for Deadlocked – Obstacles Aplenty
November 13, 2011 in Book Spoilers, Deadlocked - Book 12
This one caught me on the back foot! An unofficial synopsis has surfaced for Deadlocked, thanks to risingshadow.net:
With Felipe de Castro, the Vampire King of Louisiana (and Arkansas and Nevada), in town, it’s the worst possible time for a body to show up in Eric Northman’s front yard — especially the body of a woman whose blood he just drank.
Now, it’s up to Sookie and Bill, the official Area Five investigator, to solve the murder. Sookie thinks that, at least this time, the dead girl’s fate has nothing to do with her. But she is wrong. She has an enemy, one far more devious than she would ever suspect, who’s out to make Sookie’s world come crashing down.
DON’T PANIC.
I’ll address the elephant in the room first, which, of course is this:
Now, it’s up to Sookie and Bill, the official Area Five investigator, to solve the murder.
I’ve been reading around today and already there’s a sense of hopelessness and rising panic at the suggestion of more Bill in this book. I get that. The collective outrage over True Blood (a wound that is still very raw for many), and the fact that so many book Eric fans feel insulted and ripped-off and completely BILL’D TO THE GILLS from the show – it’s little wonder that any mention of Bill teaming up with Sookie in these final books is bound to have us reaching for the vodka and imbibing it undiluted, and in liberal quantities.
But I see nothing here that makes this book any different to any other – Sookie is always teaming up with someone to fix something for another one of her suitors. That’s part of the basic roadmap of this series, at least in the last three books. In Dead in the Family, Sookie teams up with Jason to help Alcide, going so far as to take a drug against her better judgement…and she also goes well out of her way to help Bill. In Small Town Wedding, she teams up with Sam to help solve some big problems at his brother’s wedding. In Dead Reckoning, she teamed up with Sam again – Eric’s main rival at this point - to solve his firebug problem. We haven’t forgotten this, have we?
With her knack for being in trouble’s way, Sookie witnesses the firebombing of Merlotte’s, the bar where she works. Since Sam Merlotte is now known to be two-natured, suspicion falls immediately on the anti-shifters in the area. But Sookie suspects otherwise and she and Sam work together to uncover the culprit – and the twisted motive for the attack.
I seem to recall the general consensus this time last year being that this excerpt from the Dead Reckoning synopsis could well be the dreaded set up for a Sam HEA. As it turned out, Sookie placed Sam in the box clearly marked “Dear Friend” in Dead Reckoning and we all survived another book. So let’s all back away from the cliff…at least for now.
Bill is not going to swoop in at the last minute, people. He’s not. Though I completely get that most of us are so completely and utterly over him thanks to True Blood that the mere mention of his name in the context of the books is now enough to get hackles raised. This is a shame, I think, because I still see Bill’s involvement in the books as being at an appropriate level for a character who’s had his shot, but who remains a strong influence in Sookie’s life.
My gut feeling remains as it always has – what we’re seeing in DR and the next book is the set up of multiple obstacles to a Sookie/Eric pairing, obstacles which are necessary for the characters to grow enough to make a vampire/human HEA workable. At this late stage in the series, I fail to see any other point to continuing a relationship which, if it was not planned to be endgame, could have been neatly and conveniently snuffed with the breaking of the blood bond.
Anyway, moving on to more important stuff. Important, blonde, Viking stuff.
I am absolutely THRILLED to bits to see Felipe FINALLY making his first appearance since From Dead to Worse. It’s no secret that I love this character so I’m dying to know why he’s visiting – obviously this is to do with Eric’s disposal of Victor, an act that I don’t see Felipe being too upset about after Victor caused him so much grief. So if Felipe isn’t coming to punish Eric for Victor, I think we’re left with a couple of possibilities – his visit is related to the messy Freyda business, or else he is coming to make Eric a proposal of his own. Felipe’s territory is now very large (even the synopsis goes to pains to point this out, see above) and I’m still sticking by my oft-repeated prediction that Eric will unwittingly find himself in contention for more power after proving to Felipe that he can take care of business.
Speaking of Freyda it’s probably safe to say that she’s Sookie’s new enemy, and the party responsible for Eric being set up with a dead body in his yard at the most inopportune time. It looks like Freyda’s about to play hardball with Eric; but it wouldn’t be the SVM if everyone got what they wanted without a bit of bullying and arm twisting along the way. Sookie and Eric will deal with her, probably with Felipe’s help because Eric always wins…eventually.
Name me one time when he hasn’t.
I think that’s enough of my first impressions – now let’s hear yours!
this definitely helped calm me down a little..
I just hope Sookie doesn’t have Bill blood in this book a TB still leaves a bad taste in my mouth. I wish Sookie could work with Pam more. I like Jason/Sookie teaming up in book 10 I wouldn’t mind seeing Jason more in the books.
It’s been a looooong time since Book Sookie had Bill’s blood…wow I’m trying hard to remember the last time and I can’t! Book 2?
I’m not too worried about that. I can’t see CH complicating things with that at this late stage. But remembering too that the blood issue is nowhere near as complicated or ambiguous as it is on the show. If Sookie were to have Bill’s blood in the books now, it would form a tie that wear off relatively quickly.
It was in book one not two. The last time Sookie drank from Bill was the night before Sookie went to Eric to help him solve the who steal his money. Sookie only drank from Bill twice in the books.
What a different from TB, where she drinks it like Orange Juice
I am not sure why everybody is down on Bill. From my understanding of the books CH has set up this whole series so that Bill and Sookie end up together at the end. Here’s my explanation. In the first two books she set up a strong, tender and loving relationship between Bill and Sookie. Eric comes out looking like an overwhelming, entitled jerk, who wants Sookie just as the next fun toy. In the third book Broke her her heart because he clearly cheated and lied to her. This would have been a definite death for any other character, however, in every book since then he has dedicated himself to redemption and has become a very well rounded character who really understands what Sookie wants. In the following books CH sets out to prove that the circumstances Bill was in were completely out of his control and he dealt with them much better than Eric did when his turn came up. So by the end of the 11th book we come to understand that what Bill did was not as horrific as it seemed at the beginning.
1. We find out that the vampire who makes you has full control of its child so Bill had to absolutely go the his maker, and do her bidding specially when she told him that she would kill Sookie if he did not. He went to Lorena and rather than use Sookie like Eric would have done he did not betray her name even while undergoing horrific torture at the hands of his maker. He chose to stay and be tortured and even killed by Lorena rather than put Sookie in danger.
2. When Eric’s maker came to town. Eric behaved like a coward. When the two makers are compared Lorena is a much more horrific person than Appius but even then Eric misses opportunities to redeem himself. He flat out tells Sookie that if appius asks he will have sex with him because he is his master and he cannot disobey direct orders. When Sookie is about to kill Appius Eric begs her not to do it even though this means he would be free. When you compare the reaction Bill had when Sookie killed Lorena, Bill had an expression of ambiguity but did not show the pain Eric did and certainly did not stop Sookie from doing it.
3. Eric is constantly lying and deceiving Sookie to make himself look better. When Eric first informed Sookie that Bill was going to stay with Lorena and leave Sookie he told her that Bill had a very strong bond with Lorena specifically and that he had been madly in love with her in the past. He did not tell her what we find out later that the bond is between master and “child” and that Bill responded exactly how any other vampire would have responded. Furthermore we later find out that Bill actually really disliked Lorena and there was never any love between the two of them. So Eric flat out lied to Sookie. The very first spark of a relationship between E/S started out with a deception. He lied to her about when he met Sookie’s great grandfather. He tricked her into marrying him. He weaseled his way into the blood bond.
4. In this whole series CH has made it extremely obvious that Sookie is an extremely independent woman and hates to be manipulated. Sookie is really good at standing up for herself against every other male except for Eric. When she is with Eric she really seems to lose her backbone. If you remember at the beginning of book 2 when Bill tells her that she can pick out some clothes for herself and put them on his account she pretty much looses her wits and stomps out of his car. Yet, when Eric tricks her into marrying him, saddles her with a blood bond, hires Terrie to shadow her, agrees to go ahead with the marriage with the Oklahoma queen she pretty much throws a little tantrum to herself and goes on. Some people may think this is love however, I think CH lover Sookie too much to leave her with a guy who pretty much saps all her indepence and makes her a needy puppy. Which is exactly how she behaves when Eric is around. Basically if Eric removes her clothes she surrenders everything. I can’t think of many writers who think a HEA means your spouse rains on your parade.
5. When Sookie fell in love with Eric he was a completely different person (he had lost his memory) and it has been established that Eric will never be this person again. Yet, Sookie continues to long for that Eric. She expresses that she really wants to be first in someone’s life which is why she broke up with Quinn but throughout the series CH continues to show that even though Eric loves Sookie she is far from being first in his life. In the meantime just about every short appearance Bill has in all the books after they broke up he tells her and shows her she is first in his life. In the elevator at the convention when Sookie tells Bill that he has become very successful in his computer program he says ” I would give it all up for you”. In the scene where Eric surrenders to Victor Bill pronounces “I will give up my life for Sookie, Eric are you prepared to say the same?” Eric says nothing. In that same scene Amelia also makes a very profound announcement to Eric: “Eric why would they come here to Sookie’s house, oh yeah because you are here”. Victor is searching for Eric to kill him or make him surrender so what does Eric do? He goes to Sookie’s house where he knows Victor will follow. Bill also makes a good observation, right before they are going into the battle: “this is not the setting I would have chosen and I regret the females” It is such a clear portrayal of Eric’s cowardness and utter selfishness that instead of staying away from Sookie, he puts her and two other human females in the direct line of fire. He knew Bill was guarding Sookie and we constantly hear what an incredible fighter Pam is, yet he chose not to fight along with her.
6. Eric is constantly using his power over Bill. Made sure to send him to Peru soon after he returned from being tortured by Lorena. In one of the books Bill had clearly been Sookie’s savior yet Eric used his power over Bill and sent him home and Eric stayed to sleep with Sookie and give her his blood. Bill wanted to come and help Sookie with the bomb in the convention hotel but Eric made him stay. So in the later books we see that this nice little punishment is being paid back to Eric when Victor takes over and binds Eric with silver chains to keep him from saving Sookie from the Fairyes and who is the rescuer? Bill of course.
7. Sookie constantly complains that Vampires are not human and it’s one of the main things she openly dislikes about Eric his lack of feeling for humans. So nicely juxtaposed is Bill’s human side. He still has human relatives. When he finds out about them he helps them. He is happy to see that Andy’s wife is pregnant. Not only does he have a human link he actively goes out of his way to participate and make that link stronger.
8. Bill knows he royally screwed up with Lorena and instead of constantly nagging Sookie to get back with him he tells her “I will never force myself upon you and will always be there for you”. To drive this point home CH has a character like Alcide who constantly forces himself upon Sookie.
9. When we think of true love all of the traits and qualities Bill has shown throughout the series after book 3 come to mind. He loves her without expecting to be loved back. He is there for her when she needs him. He is tender. He expresses his emotions. Genuinely wants her to be happy. He never says a single bad thing about Eric (like Eric does about Bill) He does not put her in danger to save his life. When he says he will give up everything for her he really means it (he is not demented like Eric). In summary when Bill realizes that he has lost Sookie he begins a journey of self redemption.
10. Book 11 finished with Sookie being unsure where she stands with Eric and it ended in a much more positive node between her and Bill: there are only two books left and Bill has needed 8 books to redeem himself, I just can’t see that Eric will redeem himself in just two books. Putting my preferences aside on whether I like Eric or Bill for Sookie’s happily ever after I have a very difficult time thinking that CH has kept Bill around with his incredible burning selfless love for Sookie just to be tossed out at the end. Bill has very few scenes in most of the books however, the scenes he is in he has incredible impact. All of his appearances are pretty positive whereas Eric is constantly in the books but has lots of negative attitudes and in the end Bill gets to tell Sookie just as many times how much he loves her as Eric does in all of his time with her. Bill saves Sookie more than twice as much as Eric (even though he does not have the advantage of the blood bond or marriage) he is less powerful than Eric (much younger) and has a lot less political pull. This is basically the story of the little guy coming out on top of the big guy. Patience (Bill) wins over impulse (Eric). Simplicity over flashiness and finally quality over quantity. The Bill and Eric characters are like opposite poles and Sookie is a very conflicted character who constantly questions herself, but has a strong sense of what she wants. So you can see why she would love both characters. However, every time she talks about the guy she wishes she had, if you read carefully between the lines; Over the last 8 books Bill has become that guy.
There are so many other examples I can cite to show that Eric will never truly love Sookie the way Bill does and I can’t see how CH will redeem Eric and throw away Bill to have a final of E/S over B/S. Of course this is all my own little conjecture and she will end up with Eric.
I have no idea why you claim that eric has to redeem himself, he hasn´t nearly done as much bad things as bill to sookie, I will NEVER understand it if someone thinks sookie should be with bill, seriously, I don´t see any romantic feelings from sookie towards bill anymore… and if true blood and ABs obsession for bill wasn´t there, bill would probably already been killed off, his character only seems to be there nowadays to stalk around sookie…
Hon, CH will not put Sookie with her rapist. It ain’t gonna happen. I respect that you’ve taken time to articulate your position, but I think you are in for a nasty surprise if you are backing Bill. Just sayin’
ABG:
“In the first two books she set up a strong, tender and loving relationship between Bill and Sookie.”
Tender? Like throwing her in the mud, entering her with no preparation? When she thought SHE WAS GOING TO DIE because Bill was angry – not tortured or starving? When she left a streak of blood on the towel afterwards? When she turned her fear into sexual gratification for Bill to keep from being MURDERED?
“There was no point in struggling, in fact I sensed that would only excite Bill more.” – DUD
“Bills arms were clamping me to him, and struggling was no use, it would only excite him more.” – CD
When Sookie tells Bill to “be sweet” and he says he can’t?
What.The Hell.Bill?
When she wakes up in Dallas with a broken cheekbone and a busted knee to Bill sucking on her tits in his “Favorite way?”
“NO!” I said forcefully.
“You start this car and get out of here before anything else happens, Bill Compton. I tell you flat, I am not in the mood!”
He scooted across the seat towards me, his arms scooping me up before I could say anything else. Then his mouth was on mine and his tongue began licking the blood from my face.
I was really scared.
I was also really angry.
I grabbed his ears and pulled his head away from mine using every ounce of strenght I possessed.
His eyes were still like caves with ghosts dwelling in their depths.
No means NO, Bill!
Strong, tender and loving relationship my lily white ass.
“Bill had to absolutely go the his maker, and do her bidding specially when she told him that she would kill Sookie if he did not.”
“IF” Bill was ordered to sleep with Lorena he would have to obey.
But it was never directly expressed that he WAS ordered to sleep with her. I think he did so willingly for those first couple of days….until the issue of the data base came up, then the vamp napping, which happened on his way BACK to Shreveport (In his coffin) to see Pam and Eric about pensioning Sookie off.
It was only after Lorena demanded the data base and then betrayed Bill to the Jackson vamps that it became an issue keeping Bill against his will and under Lorena’s command. Club Dead is wide open to speculation about what Bill did prior to going to Mississippi (he lied and told Sookie he was going to Seattle) and then being kidnapped on his way BACK to Shreveport.
**p225 Bill to Sookie after being rescued- ‘And they told you….?’
‘That you were planning to leave me. Yes. They told me.’
‘I already got paid back for that piece of madness,’ Bill said.
‘You might have been paid back enough to suit you’ I said ‘but I don’t know if you’ve been paid back enough to suit me.’**
In any case Bill hid the database at Sookie’s house – involving her, yet tried to hide it from her, just like he never informed her of Lorena as his maker and long time (unusually long time) lover. That is Bill’s cross to bear. He had ample time to inform Sookie about ALOT of things – but he was engrossed in the database.
Lorena knew Bill was from BT( Thats where she turned him) and that he had a human gf. If she wanted to – she could have come for Sookie – name or no name.
Eric never sent bill to Peru FFS. Bill went to interview old vampires for the database at QSA’s behest – after the Mississippi debacle – and Sookie had already left him (She walked out on him in Jackson)
Are you even serious about Lorena vs. Appius?
Lorena is 300 years old. Appius is 2000.
Eric’s relationship with ALO is 1000 years old. Bill’s with Lorena is 175?
That kind of span of time and history?There is no comparison. None.
Lorena was trying to kill Sookie. Appius saved Sookie’s life.
Bill is the coward for never telling Sookie the truth, like ever.Sookie asked Bill about his “Maker” in book ONE.
Even after Sookie was staked and saved Bill’s ass – he still witheld the truth. How’s that for nobility?
” I risked my life for YOU” “I killed someone for YOU”
How long after he’d taken me to bed had this supposed love come about?
How could I possibly believe him, since he lied so convincingly from the moment I’d met him—playing disinterested because he could read my fascination with the first vampire I’d ever met.” – Sookie DD
Your facts are inaccurate. Eric never agreed to any such “Arrangement” with the Queen of OK, and it was done behind his back and without his consent.
“”Sookie, I swear to you that since I recieved this letter, I have been doing everything I can to stop this.I have pleaded that Ocella’s death should cancel the arrangement, I’ve said that I’m happy where I am; I have even put forward our marriage as a bar…..I have appealed to Felipe, but I haven’t heard from him.” – DR
Sookie lose her backbone with Eric? What are you reading? NO ONE – NO ONE – not even Pam stands up to Eric and is as proudly stubborn as Sookie – to the point where Sookie’s pride and independant streak often causes her strife and danger.
“*Eric was ‘sharing’. This was almost unprecedented. This was like normal give-and-take between equals.*
FDTW~
“Like Eric, I didn’t always tell the whole truth.” – Sookie DAG.
You think Eric would tell the Second in Command to the new Regime who just murdered his queen and all the other Sheriffs in the state that he LOVED SOOKIE? No one but Bill is that fucking stupid. Way to advertise her importance to the New King and his Sookie hating MINION who later tries to KILL HER b/c it’s KNOWN that she is imporatnt to Eric.
For Bill to threaten that he would die for Sookie and kill the King’s Lieutenant(if he even could) in that moment was impulsive,and showed a real lack of intelligence, and only endangered Sookie’s life further.
“I will commit treason against my new vampire king for a mere human”
Good one Bill.
Bill let Victor know Sookie’s life could be pawned.
That she was valuable to both Bill and Eric, and held a higher regard than even their own kind.
Which is exactly WHY Victor chained Eric in silver when Neave and Lochan took Sookie,(D&G)
EPIC FAIL BILL. And you obviously didnt read the Companion – as it was BILL who sent a message to Eric that he was at Sookie’s.
Sookie knows w/o the pledging she would be in an underground room in Nevada beholden to FDC as an asset.
She also goes onto use the “Wife” title to her advantage in DR at Vampire’s Kiss.
She also tells Sam, Bill, Alcide and Quinn that she LOVES Eric. Period.
Sookie acknowledges that she owes Eric a debt of gratitude for stepping in to bond with her rather than ANDRE. A great big THANK YOU as she states in ATD.
When Andre wanted to exchange blood with Sookie therefore binding her to him and QSA – Andre had NO IDEA that Eric could not make Sookie “Heel” or that she didnt have to bend to his “Will” – in fact Eric lied to Andre and said “She heels nicely” – in order to stop Andre/QSA from taking over Sookie’s life.
CH also stated that had Andre known this he never would have wanted to “Bond” with Sookie if she could feel HIM as well. Vampires aren’t good at sharing their feelings and emotions such as was case with Eric and Sookie after their bonding in Rhodes. The fact that Eric and Sookie had intense and deep seeded feelings for one another prior to the ‘Bond’ exchange – made it that much more powerful.
” It wasn’t the blood that made the bond so important – it was the intimacy – the connection”
“Maybe because of my unusual heritage, they[vampires] 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.”
ALL the BloodBond proves is that Eric and Sookie loved each other before it, during it, and now AFTER it. Thank you very much.
I could go on but your post bored me to tears.
absolutely brilliant Leif. *hugs*
Thank you.
And kudo’s to you and your short and very right on the money post. Perfectly stated.
*hugs*
*standing ovation*
what Leif said
(and are these folks actually reading the same books we are???)
The only explanation is that they skip the Eric bits, say, about 70% of the series.
Great job Leif. I won’t even bother reading ABG’s post because from your reply I can tell it’s the same old Bill is a hero crap! What is wrong with these women? Do they not have any self respect? And I am not saying they should like Eric. I could give a crap whether they do or not. But to think a manipulative jerk is a romantic hero because he loves her is just too sad. This is why we have woman who stay with their abusers. because they think they can’t get any better. And this is why so many woman don’t leave their abusers, because they don’t get the support they need. “Oh honey, he didn’t mean it> He loves you! he’ll do better next time!” Pfft get a clue!
And for the record this story is about Sookie, not Bill’s redemption!
LKC: Great job Leif. I won’t even bother reading ABG’s post because from your reply I can tell it’s the same old Bill is a hero crap!
ABG:How can you comment on a post you did not read? Kind of scary that you let some one else speak for you based on your emotions from a book series. Had you read my post you would have realized that I did not anywhere in there state Bill was a hero or that I prefer Bill over Eric. I simply stated the facts as I perceived them and made an argument to show that it appeared to me Sookie will end up with Bill. You show your true ignorance on your ability to perceive and disseminate information when you reach the WRONG conclusion without even taking the time to read.
LKC: What is wrong with these women? Do they not have any self respect? And I am not saying they should like Eric. I could give a crap whether they do or not. But to think a manipulative jerk is a romantic hero because he loves her is just too sad. This is why we have woman who stay with their abusers. because they think they can’t get any better. And this is why so many woman don’t leave their abusers, because they don’t get the support they need. “Oh honey, he didn’t mean it> He loves you! he’ll do better next time!” Pfft get a clue!
ABG: how dare you make a comment on my character and self-respect based on someone else’s response? SHAME ON YOU! You don’t have the smallest inkling of who I am, what I think of abusers, or how I would react to an abusive relationship based on what I think or extract from a non-fiction novel. Your cause and effect conclusions are seriously flawed, offensive and disrespectful. Had you read my post you would have realized that I did not defend Bill or made any excuses for his behavior and I NEVER said I prefer him or that he is a hero. I simply stated that he made mistakes and he has been trying to redeem himself and whether you like it or not at the end of book 11 Sookie also appears to think the same.
Again if you had taken the time to read my post you would have understood that I was trying to say Eric is also a manipulative jerk, not just Bill, they both are.
Next time you want to step on your soap box to criticize people you don’t know at least take the time to be informed otherwise you end up sounding ignorant and close-minded.
ABG – It seems to me that you’ve stumbled into this site and started commenting, possibly without reading first and getting a general feel for what it’s about. The site is strongly pro Eric, and most people posting here are pretty familiar with the books.
Your initial post wasn’t rude or disrespectful and I do appreciate that. However, we have quite the history here of certain Bill fans divebombing the comments with antagonistic remarks designed only to bait and anger my readers. There has been an increase in these nasty little visitors over the past week (True Blood hiatus tends to leave them bored), so some of our regular posters are more than a little defensive at present.
You are welcome to post here but I would say two things – if you’re going to debate the books make sure what you’re posting is factually correct or expect to be called out for it (there was more than one fact in your other post that was just wrong – Eric did not agree to anything with QOK, for example, and to claim otherwise is not a matter of interpretation when it is written in black and white), and secondly, there’s not much love for Bill here and that’s probably not about to change. There are other places online to discuss Bill’s epic love for Sookie, should that be how you see things, but this probably isn’t one of them. With the focus of True Blood on the Bill and Sookie ship there are few places on the net where Eric fans can gather without being subjected to a brow beating about why Bill is so amazing and Eric is so evil. This is, and has always been a place for us to come together and love on the viking in peace. And so it shall remain
ABG I dare to voice my opinions because here on this site I can AND I stand by what I say. You mat not be the typical BL however anyone who can read the SVM series and still think that CH, a rape survivor herself, would put the character of Sookie back with her rapist is seriously flawed in my book. Maybe you did not know that CH is a rape victim and for that I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt. However I worked in the medical field long enough to deal with many victims of abuse and rape, mostly at the hands of “loved ones”.. I don’t see anything romantic or appealing on any level to read a story about a girl who was also a victim of childhood sexual abuse cycling back to her rapist boyfriend. This story is not about the redemption of Bill.
Epic Leif, just awesome
Brilliant, Leif. *applause*
not to mention Bill was a shitty boyfriend when he was with sookie prior to leaving her,when she comes home all ready and willing to be ravished,what does he do?oh yeah..ignores her for his boring data base…he ONLY wants her when he doesn’t have her.
Wow, I had no idea how much anger is out there. I can totally accept that I may be totally off the mark as with whom Sookie will end up, and I even understand some of the anger when I dared to point out that I think (apparently wrong) Sookie will end up with Bill. But I absolutely don’t understand comments like “this post bores me” that is a little hypocritical since you took at least 30 minutes to respond to my post. I find that comment just a tad petty. Please let me point out the following:
1. I wrote this post mostly because >90% of the comments were sure that Sookie will end up with Eric at the end so my goal was to point out that in my opinion, the situation was not as clear cut as you guys were making it out to be. I was simply trying to second guess why CH has kept Bill in the series and to me that conclusion made sense. From the responses to my post it appears that everyone assumed I want Sookie to end up with Bill, however if you read my post I never stated what my preference was so I don’t understand the hate coming my way since I never gave my personal thoughts on that matter.
2. Most of the points Leif made to refute my opinions were stating what an awful person Bill was in the first three books. There are no examples of Bill continuing to be a jerk in any book after that. I did not say Bill was perfect. I clearly stated that Bill had been a bad boy that is precisely why he needed to redeem himself. However, Bill being bad does not make Eric good. So someone has to point out why Eric is deserving over Bill since at the end they both end up treating Sookie similarly. Other than overwhelming beauty, off the charts sex Leif has not provided any examples to show what makes Eric a perfect long term companion, which is precisely my point in the argument that CH has not given us enough evidence Eric is better than Bill. In books 3-11 Eric and Sookie have been building a relationship however at the end of book 11, S/E still don’t communicate well, don’t tell each other the truth, and are totally up in the air as to where their relationship is going.
The end of book 11:
Sookie and Bill: end up in good terms, she no longer questions his love for her, trusts that he will never harm her.
Sookie and Eric:
Eric: “You are being a hypocrite, and I will take blood”
Sookie: and he struck, it hurt, he did not make it feel good an action almost automatic for vampires. Tears ran down my face………I also understood that this was a turning point in our relationship” “I was ready for something simple and I was ready for the pain to stop, my eyes met Bills” “I knew Eric realized he should stop, but he didn’t” “I shook myself free of the lethargy and self-loathing and grabbed hold of Eric’s earlobe as hard as I could and he let go” “Eric bent down to kiss me but I flenched, not with that bloody mouth”
…..and Bill took her home.
Please point out to me why CH would have made this the last contact between E&S, if she meant to convey to the reader that the only viable HEA was Eric and that Bill was completely out of the picture? Of course only CH knows who she will end up with but she has not gone out of her way to make Eric seem that much more deserving than Bill. Again the fact that I am making this point does not tell you in any way that I want the HEA to be S&B I am trying to be as impartial as possible, so that I am not completely shocked when the series ends.
Leif: When Sookie tells Bill to “be sweet” and he says he can’t?
What.The Hell.Bill?:
ABG: Actually Bill says next time I can’t because it has been too long” You are taking these words out of context. You should go back and re-read this. This is rough sex (for lack of better word) she has plenty of this with Eric as well, which is not wrong either.
Leif” “NO!” I said forcefully.
“You start this car and get out of here before anything else happens, Bill Compton. I tell you flat, I am not in the mood!”
He scooted across the seat towards me, his arms scooping me up before I could say anything else. Then his mouth was on mine and his tongue began licking the blood from my face.
I was really scared.
I was also really angry.
I grabbed his ears and pulled his head away from mine using every ounce of strenght I possessed.
His eyes were still like caves with ghosts dwelling in their depths.
No means NO, Bill!
ABG: I agree that NO means NO and never said I agree with Bill however, when you compare Bill and Eric to me they are exactly the same, here is an example of Eric not knowing NO means NO: (words are not exact) When Sookie was taken by the Fairies and physically abused she described that he continues to have sex with her and she makes it clear that it is completely one sided and she is not even reaching orgasms this would have been a perfect time for Eric to give her some space and time until she was ready, he never asked her how she was doing or how she felt he just resumed their sex life as it was before. If CH really wanted to make Eric look good she would have used this to make him look good. Yet, she didn’t.
Leif: Strong, tender and loving relationship my lily white ass.
ABG: I was mostly talking how Sookie felt since the book is told from her point of view and up until she broke up with him she did love him, felt tender about him and felt they had a strong relationship. However, you did not give any examples how after 11 books Eric and Sookie have it either. Yes they love each other have good sex but CH has not provided any evidence to show that their relationship has the stuff to stand the test of time. So there are no other possibilities other than Bill and Eric so to me they are both equal at this point in the series.
Leif: But it was never directly expressed that he WAS ordered to sleep with her. I think he did so willingly for those first couple of days….until the issue of the data base came up, then the vamp napping, which happened on his way BACK to Shreveport (In his coffin) to see Pam and Eric about pensioning Sookie off.
It was only after Lorena demanded the data base and then betrayed Bill to the Jackson vamps that it became an issue keeping Bill against his will and under Lorena’s command. Club Dead is wide open to speculation about what Bill did prior to going to Mississippi (he lied and told Sookie he was going to Seattle) and then being kidnapped on his way BACK to Shreveport.
**p225 Bill to Sookie after being rescued- ‘And they told you….?’
‘That you were planning to leave me. Yes. They told me.’
‘I already got paid back for that piece of madness,’ Bill said.
‘You might have been paid back enough to suit you’ I said ‘but I don’t know if you’ve been paid back enough to suit me.’**
ABG: You are adding conjecture to this “I think he slept with her willingly” this is never written anywhere. Please, only use what is actually in the book. I don’t know that Lorena ordered Bill to have sex with her and you don’t know that he did it willingly. The book is very vague. However, if you are trying to reason it out why would you think he did it willingly when it comes out later through Judith (Bills sister) that he intensely disliked Lorena, and he was unhappy with her from the beginning and Lorena made Judith to try to keep Bill happy and with her. So why would Bill willingly sleep with Lorena? Eric is the only one that said Bill and Lorena had a loving relationship the only other objective person (Judith) who really knows how things really happened disagreed so that makes Eric a lier. Lorena wants something from Bill so do you think that she would not use sex to get it?.
Since we are both guessing what happened I was kind enough to provide reasoning for my opinion however, yours was lacking.
Leif: In any case Bill hid the database at Sookie’s house – involving her, yet tried to hide it from her, just like he never informed her of Lorena as his maker and long time (unusually long time) lover.
ABG: Sookie gave Bill permission to hide the database in her house and trusted her to keep that secret, however, he did not trust Lorena with the same secret. I am not sure what you mean by saying that he tried to hide it from her. It was clear in CD that Sookie was keeping this secret for him do you remember when Eric was trying to coerce her into telling her what it was? and Sookie was disappointed in him because she thought Eric was making the moves on her just to get her to reveal Bill’s secret?
Leif: That is Bill’s cross to bear. He had ample time to inform Sookie about ALOT of things – but he was engrossed in the database.
ABG: yes, I agree. He was not forthcoming with information but neither is Eric so this point is mute.
Leif: Lorena knew Bill was from BT( Thats where she turned him) and that he had a human gf. If she wanted to – she could have come for Sookie – name or no name.
ABG: The point that was made in the book was that Bill did not betray Sookie. This sentiment was expressed by Sookie herself. So I am not sure why you are disagreeing with it.
Leif: Eric never sent bill to Peru FFS. Bill went to interview old vampires for the database at QSA’s behest – after the Mississippi debacle – and Sookie had already left him (She walked out on him in Jackson)
ABG: you are right on this one. Sorry for the mistake.
Leif: Are you even serious about Lorena vs. Appius?
Lorena is 300 years old. Appius is 2000.
Eric’s relationship with ALO is 1000 years old. Bill’s with Lorena is 175?
That kind of span of time and history?There is no comparison. None.
ABG: I am trying to stick to what is written in the books and not trying to assign real world rationale to it. In the books we constantly read that the bond between the maker and their son or daughter is extremely strong and the child has to obey their maker (as clearly shown when Eric demands that Pam shuts up and she literally stops speaking when she is trying to tell Sookie about the arrangement between Oklahoma and Eric. The book does state that the bond (at least the lust and blind trust) is even stronger at the first few years. Please provide me with a reference where it states that the bond gets stronger with time. The child cannot obey their maker any less on day one than on year 1000. In the real world it is obvious that a 1000 year old bond is much stronger that a 175 year old bond. DUH!! but we can’t assign real world emotions to this argument since the real world does not have vampires running around either. In the books we are never told that a 1000 year old bond is stronger that 175 years. It only states that there is absolute control on the side of the maker.
Leif: Lorena was trying to kill Sookie. Appius saved Sookie’s life.
ABG: I don’t remember when Appius saved Sookie’s life. I probably just forgot which page number is this? (I am not being an ass, I genuinely want to know)
Leif: Bill is the coward for never telling Sookie the truth, like ever.Sookie asked Bill about his “Maker” in book ONE.
Even after Sookie was staked and saved Bill’s ass – he still witheld the truth. How’s that for nobility?
ABG: again I did not say Bill was a good guy or that he was noble. You continually point out examples of Bill being an ass and totally underserving (which I do not disagree with) but every single example you provide takes place in books 1-3 and none in the books after that. So the point I was trying to make was that Bill fell from grace and has been trying to redeem himself. How can you disagree with that statement. You can’t refute the statement by continuing to say yes but Bill was as ass. I said he worked hard in books 4-11 to redeem himself. He had to redeem himself because he had done lots and lots of bad things. But even then you cannot disagree that Sookie truly loved him and that Bill loved her back. So if you agree with their love and agree that CH continues to put Bill in every book in strategic places to make a good impression on Sookie, then you have to give a little credence that Bill is not completely out of the picture and that Eric and Bill have to battle it out in the last two books. You have to wonder why there are not many or any examples where Bill is mean to Sookie in books 4-11. If there are and I have just chosen to ignore them please point them out to me.
Leif: ” I risked my life for YOU” “I killed someone for YOU”
How long after he’d taken me to bed had this supposed love come about?
How could I possibly believe him, since he lied so convincingly from the moment I’d met him—playing disinterested because he could read my fascination with the first vampire I’d ever met.” – Sookie DD
ABG: this is basically the same point you have been trying to make just one more example. Bill is bad, treated Sookie poorly. This also explains why Sookie is so mad at Bill and not willing to forgive him. She tells him “don’t ever speak to me again” however, at the end of book 11 who does she trust more?
Leif: Your facts are inaccurate. Eric never agreed to any such “Arrangement” with the Queen of OK, and it was done behind his back and without his consent.
“”Sookie, I swear to you that since I recieved this letter, I have been doing everything I can to stop this.I have pleaded that Ocella’s death should cancel the arrangement, I’ve said that I’m happy where I am; I have even put forward our marriage as a bar…..I have appealed to Felipe, but I haven’t heard from him.” – DR
ABG: You are probably right that I did not express this properly, or my facts are plain wrong (I have to check on that) the reason I said this was because the way Sookie expressed her feelings about the situation (since she is the narrator) it seemed to me that Eric still had some choice on whether he went with it or not (somewhere along the line she says “we all know that Eric loves power more than anything else) So I agree that this is one of those points I perceived different than you.
Leif: Sookie lose her backbone with Eric? What are you reading? NO ONE – NO ONE – not even Pam stands up to Eric and is as proudly stubborn as Sookie – to the point where Sookie’s pride and independant streak often causes her strife and danger.
“*Eric was ‘sharing’. This was almost unprecedented. This was like normal give-and-take between equals.*
FDTW~
ABG: how does the quote at the end serve to support your argument that Sookie stands up to Eric?
I gave you plenty of examples how Sookie does not stand up to Eric, where are yours? Do you want more examples?
1. Sookie does not question Eric when she finds out that he hires Jerry to spy on her.
2. She does not question him when she is told that Eric contacted her greatgrandfather not the other way around (when Eric takes Sookie to meet Niall, Eric specifically tells her that is the first time he met Niall and that Niall contacted Eric. Later on we find out that Eric had met Niall much earlier than that and that Eric contacted Niall first and the reason he made a connection with Niall was to enhance his own connection with Sookie. Do you think for a moment that she would not have walked out on Quinn, Alcide, Sam or Bill if they had done the same?
3. She constantly makes comments that she is really angry at Eric for something or other yet as soon as she sees him she just feels content, and secure and forgets about her argument. I am not saying that this is wrong, or bad. I am just saying that something about her relationship with Eric makes him alpha and her beta and his personality overwhelms hers when they are together. So I was thinking that it would be unlikely for CH to pair Sookie at the end with someone that overwhelms her so much and clouds her judgement. A perfect example was when she chose to break the bond without consulting Eric because she knew that if she asked him she would listen to him and not do it. So she was able to show her stubborn independent streak only when she was away from him.
3. Tricking her into marriage? Even if it’s for her own good we know she hates this behavior in men.
4. He makes most of the decisions for them including what gown she will wear to go see Victor at his night club. She does not utter a single protest as she did when she was with Bill and he told her he preferred a certain outfit.
Leif:“Like Eric, I didn’t always tell the whole truth.” – Sookie DAG.
ABG: what is the point you are trying to make?
Leif: You think Eric would tell the Second in Command to the new Regime who just murdered his queen and all the other Sheriffs in the state that he LOVED SOOKIE? No one but Bill is that fucking stupid. Way to advertise her importance to the New King and his Sookie hating MINION who later tries to KILL HER b/c it’s KNOWN that she is imporatnt to Eric.
ABG: even before this scene the book makes it clear that the second in command knows Sookie is important to Eric. That is not a secret Eric is trying to keep from coming out. Remember that the king has Quinn hostage and Quinn witnessed Eric and Sookie making their blood bond? Do you think Victor needs to hear Eric say that he loves Sookie, NO, Victor knows they have a blood bond obviously this is all he needs to know. The scene is set up so that Bill has an opportunity to directly compare himself to Eric in front of Sookie, it has nothing to do with Victor.
Furthermore I notice you chose to completely ignore my point of Eric choosing to go to Sookie’s house and putting her in danger instead of staying away from her.
Leif: For Bill to threaten that he would die for Sookie and kill the King’s Lieutenant(if he even could) in that moment was impulsive,and showed a real lack of intelligence, and only endangered Sookie’s life further.
ABG: Bill said he would risk his life to defend Sookie. He did not say he would win or that he was going to be successful in killing the King’s lieutenant. Those are two very different statements. He did not say I will kill you, he said he will die for her. I am not sure why you are so adamant in your thinking that Victor was going to be swayed one way or another by the statement Bill made other than finding out that Sookie was also important to Bill. Sookie was a pawn because she had a blood bond with Eric period. The fact that Bill loves her in Victor’s eyes is neither here nor there. Furthermore I don’t see how you can reach your conclusion since Victor did not have one single word to say about this when he was negotiating with Eric.
Leif: “I will commit treason against my new vampire king for a mere human”
Good one Bill.
ABG: I am not sure what to make of this quote since Bill never referred to Sookie as a mere human in that scene, so you are putting your own emotions into this. If you want to think that Bill is being fake or stupid or impulsive that is completely okay, however, if you want to use the quote to prove a point it is sorely lacking because there is no supporting evidence before or after Bill made his statement that he was just showing off. Usually I get my cues on how to interpret a quote based on the insight of the narrator or other characters in the book and no one in that room at that time or later commenter, disagreed, agreed or challeged Bill on his statement so I took it as a matter of fact that Bill will give his life to protect Sookie. I do not understand how you can take this statement an make fun of it when CH did not give you any evidence to do so. If CH had wanted you to doubt Bill or make fun of him don’t you think she would have added a sentence or two somewhere in there to let you know Bill was not being sincere?
Leif: EPIC FAIL BILL. And you obviously didnt read the Companion – as it was BILL who sent a message to Eric that he was at Sookie’s.
ABG: No, I did not read the Companion, however, I did read the book and not sure how this proves any point. In the book:
Pam is at Sookie’s house when she realizes that something seriously wrong is taking place she calls Bill to come and protect Sookie so that she can go to Eric and find out what is going on. When Bill gets to Sookie’s house he calls Eric to let him know Sookie has protection and he should not worry. So obviously since sookie is not alone, has protection and Victor is after Eric first and everyone else is second, then why would Eric who is the main prey come to Sookie’s house? And why would CH use Amelia to clearly point out to the reader that Eric has done something wrong? Remember the scene? Authors create characters to help the reader understand the book and help you like of dislike a character based on what others think of him. In that scene CH made it obvious that Eric had made the wrong decision in coming to Sookie’s house since both Amelia and Bill put it out there for him and she did not balance this out by having another character defend Eric.
Exactly what is it that I missed by not reading the Companion?
Leif: Sookie knows w/o the pledging she would be in an underground room in Nevada beholden to FDC as an asset.
She also goes onto use the “Wife” title to her advantage in DR at Vampire’s Kiss.
She also tells Sam, Bill, Alcide and Quinn that she LOVES Eric. Period.
ABG: agree with all of the above. I did not say she does not love Eric so you don’t have to provide examples such as the one above. The examples above are good to show that Sookie has grown up quite a bit and puts her safety above her independence specially when you compare it to the incident in book 2 when she ran into the woods putting herself in danger to be attacked just because Bill told her she could pick out some clothes and put them on his account. I my post I was not commenting on Sookie’s character, but on Bill’s and Eric’s. So off the point.
Leif: Sookie acknowledges that she owes Eric a debt of gratitude for stepping in to bond with her rather than ANDRE. A great big THANK YOU as she states in ATD.
ABG: yes, but you also have to remember how much she questioned herself about this since she continues to bring up the fact that she would be free from the bond since Quinn killed Andre less than 24? hours later but she is still bound to Eric. Not as clear cut as you want to make it.
Leif: When Andre wanted to exchange blood with Sookie therefore binding her to him and QSA – Andre had NO IDEA that Eric could not make Sookie “Heel” or that she didnt have to bend to his “Will” – in fact Eric lied to Andre and said “She heels nicely” – in order to stop Andre/QSA from taking over Sookie’s life.
CH also stated that had Andre known this he never would have wanted to “Bond” with Sookie if she could feel HIM as well. Vampires aren’t good at sharing their feelings and emotions such as was case with Eric and Sookie after their bonding in Rhodes. The fact that Eric and Sookie had intense and deep seeded feelings for one another prior to the ‘Bond’ exchange – made it that much more powerful.
” It wasn’t the blood that made the bond so important – it was the intimacy – the connection”
“Maybe because of my unusual heritage, they[vampires] 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.”
ALL the BloodBond proves is that Eric and Sookie loved each other before it, during it, and now AFTER it. Thank you very much.
ABG: I love a great back and forth discussion, but for god’s sake stick to the point. In my post I stated that Eric sleazed his way into creating a bond with Sookie. The incident with Andre was just the culmination of his plan. I never commented on the strength of their bond, did not question their love, or intimacy, did not say she would have had a similar bond with Andre. My only comment about the bond was that Eric created this in an underhanded manner. So why are you bringing up all this excess information that just serves to confuse people about the real argument? And if you insist, on bringing this up why are you conveniently forgetting that when Appius and Alexi came into the picture she could also sense the bond with them even though she had never seen them before in her life and had no love, intimacy, or other connection to them? You are reaching conclusions about the bond without having any evidence to back those conclusions. Please point out to me where in the book it states that the bond serves to make their connection more powerful. I don’t know if you realize it but you are saying two different things here. You are saying that the bond makes their feelings more powerful, so if that is the case than you would expect that their feelings would diminish after the bond is broken, but in the book everything remained the same between Sookie and Eric they loved each other the same as before. The only difference was that they could not sense each other any more. On the other hand you are also saying that the bond is not responsible for any of their feelings. I agree with you on this. So make up your mind.
Leif: I could go on but your post bored me to tears
ABG: there is no need to add this rude comment at the end. If the post bored you than you would not have read it, furthermore you would not have responded to it. If you don’t agree that I should have the right to post my opinions if they differ from yours, then you should remove the post or ask the appropriate person to remove the post, instead of posting petty one-liners.
I am confused by the animosity of other readers when the post comments such as “I have never laughed so loud” at least you took the time to respond and disagree with me rather than just throw out rude comments.
@ABG,
wow, you took plenty of time to refute the facts, it is ok, but I like to talk about two points:
you said that Sookie not forgiven Bill, is not true, not because she did not say the exact words, that isn’t there in the text, especially in DITF. She forgave him, and she move on. But she has not forgotten, and she will not return to him. She’s not in love with him more.
As Leif said she loves Eric and said this to everyone who asked, even though she found the constant questions about it intrusive.
If she will not stay with Eric at the end of the books is not the point. This is not TB and she was not in a seesaw between Eric and Bill. She is not with Eric just because she broke up with Bill, she went to Eric because she fell in love with him. And if it does not stay with Eric, that does not mean she’s going back to Bill.
In many questions, I’m not talking specifically for you, many readers treat Sookie as an “robot” as if she could hang up and call her feelings, just because the guy with whom she was dating at the moment is no longer with her, or “allowed” her to go to another. This choice is solely for Sookie.
As told Sookie for Bill at the end of DR, paraphrasing: You all keep saying that love me, but what does that mean, what do you want me to do? He, Eric or even Sam can say they love her until fall to their tongues, no matter in the end. That matters is who Sookie wants, and isn’t Bill. Sorry to stress so much, but it’s something that’s been bothering me in fandom lately.
As for bloodbond, I’m not expert, but I’ve read many posts by SVB, if you’re new to the blog, I suggest you read them, there are many good reasons, and will show a light because so many people attending this site are pro-Eric, as well as in the blog “says” at the beginning of site. it is no secret.
The blood bond was so strong because Eric and Sookie has deep feelings for each other, it is clear from the text of CH, again she will not explain it in detail, but in the text. And Eric not “want” to form a bloodbond with Sookie, as you said, he planned it? was done by the circumstances and was the only option at this time. What about Andre die, who would guess that? Eric is not a vident. If Eric had not offered, Sookie would have been obliged to Andre, is a fact. It was chosen by the author do this. As the CH” choice of breaking the bloodbond and prove once and for all, for those who still had doubts, they love each other.
I do not deny that Bill really loves Sookie, but their relationship had nothing to tender or Bill isn’t a romantic hero, Bill is not evil, but he did rub in the Sookie’s face, leading to their place of work, other women he was dating, for to provoke jealous, as he said in a book. Bill isn’t the great evil incarnate, but he had his time and passed. Like CH said, she planned to kill him in the D&G, and she would not consider this if he and Sookie are together at the end. and how she repeatedly said she did not change the way the books will end. Sorry, but I can not seriously consider Bill and Sookie to end up together, not with this and the facts in the books.
@ABG-
Some brief constructive criticism – your posts are so long, they’re a little hard to respond to. I’d recommend a little brevity – it would probably serve you better, and would be less likely to antagonize the readers here. As it stands now, it looks like you’re here to preach at folks.
Also, the readers and posters here are VERY well versed in the books, as SVB stated above. You will find lots of arguments when you get the facts wrong.
I can’t possibly take on all your arguments, again to keep blog posts brief, but I will say two basic things. One, your argument that Bill is only ‘bad’ in the first three books is a pretty subjective one. I would argue that parading Selah Pumphrey around town to make Sookie jealous, continuing to not tell Sookie the truth about his orders from QSA, and using every opportunity to get back into her pants would not necessarily be above board behavior.
I also think blaming Eric solely for the blood bond is a little disingenuous. Sookie was not walking out of that hallway in Rhodes without being bonded to someone. Would you have preferred Andre? I’d add that I’m not sure that Sookie would’ve been able to walk away from Andre after the explosion, and allow Quinn to stake him had she been bonded to Andre instead of Eric. At any rate, it happened the way it happened, and even Eric was surprised by the intensity of the bond. And let’s not overlook that Bill was certainly trying to bond with her as well, and wasn’t anymore forthcoming about it than Andre or Eric.
okay so I personally understand completely the reasons for frustration and anger with posts toning down Bills misdeeds and insisting we’ve been witnessing his redemption for the past few books (which IMO is not whats happening at all)
but let me just say,Bill has come off as a jerk even after the first three books,using his “love” for sookie and sookie herself to break up with women,instead of…I don’t know…acting like an adult and talking to them about it. and till book five…he still didn’t tell her about the whole QSA thing. Which if he had ANY genuine feelings for her (IMO) he would have. Endangering sookies life by physically fighting with Quinn out of sheer idiocy, basically putting an even bigger sign on her head by telling victor he’d be willing to die for her. There is A LOT more I’m sure but honestly I can’t remember. And I think if anyone was actually a possible end game for her other than Eric,from the way the books go and from sookies feelings (which we read first hand) it would be sam…she actually has a relationship with him. Bill is just that ex u learn to live with. (not that I believe its sam in any way)
Also about that thing you’ve mentioned,after the whole fairy torture thing,when eric keeps having sex with her. this is the paragraph from the book which CLEARLY sstates,its sookies choice to continue having sex because she wants to be back to normal.
“I didn’t so much feel like having sex as I felt like I ought to keep trying to enjoy it, but I definitely didn’t want to discuss that. My
ability to cast aside control, which is the key to good sex, had been pinched out of existence during the torture. I’d been absolutely helpless. I could only hope that I’d recover in that area, too. I knew Eric could feel my lack of completion. He’d asked me several times if I was sure I wanted to engage in sex. Nearly every time, I said yes, operating on the bicycle theory. Yes, I’d fallen off. But I was always willing to try to ride it again.”
so its not like eric is forcing himself on her…he in fact knows she’s not into it and would rather not but she wants to “jump back on the bike”
also what you said here : ” It was clear in CD that Sookie was keeping this secret for him do you remember when Eric was trying to coerce her into telling her what it was? and Sookie was disappointed in him because she thought Eric was making the moves on her just to get her to reveal Bill’s secret?”
okay..he WAS NOT making ANY moves on her,I don’t know where you got the whole she was disappointed in him because of that. and yes..she was keeping the secret for him,but not willingly and not because he had trusted her and told her all about it,like she’s thinking:
“I had more or less figured it out all by myself anyway.”
And sookie has mentioned more than a few times in the books how she values erics honesty,she even compares herself to him in the whole “i may not tell him everything,but what I did tell him was the truth” VERY different from anything involving bill.
Appius saves sookie in DITF from the fairy who was Claudines lover in the end. Dont remember the page but you could read the last few chapters.
I dont remember other points you made,but like I said before,CH admitted she was killing Bill off in the fairy war but her editor persuaded her not to. Thats not what someone does when the characters supposed to be in the running for the heroine. Just sayin.
and also I suggest you not take it personally when people here say your posts are boring them. Honestly (and no offense) we’ve heard your arguments a million times,phrased in a million different ways. It’s really nothing personal.
Ah, grasshopper, your post has so many factual errors that you have outed yourself as a Billusional who doesn’t really read the books. Good luck with your quest to redeem an abusive boyfriend.
AND…when you TYPE like THIS!!!!… only one poster COMES to MIND!!!!!
Actually ABG, you’re way too smart for that poster.. sometimes though, reading the same Bill devotional crap makes me forget which BL is which…
HERE! HERE!
Cheers to that!
I think we need Uma Thurman to “Kill Bill”
i totally agree with you after reading the first person’s post im just like shit its true then i thought back and im like wait no it isn’t Bill has done to much shit and i read yours and yours is more logical. but i do have one question in Dead Reckoning has Eric marries the Queen of Oklahoma yet? and if not will her next book that comes out in like may tell us what happens with Eric and Sookie?
**fingers crossed that Eric and Sookie end up together ill even settle for them flirting and Eric putting the moves on her until they get togehter even if its at the end of the last book lol**
great post again!!
Awesome.
Sookie and bill are magic,,I really want to see them end up together..he is her first true love….
Because nothing says “true love” like rape in the trunk. Or lying through your teeth.
That’s our Bill
I never laughed so hard reading a post before. A way to twist a whole story. OMG!
“I am not sure why everybody is down on Bill.From my understanding of the books CH has set up this whole series so that Bill and Sookie end up together at the end.”
No offense….but your understanding is totally off. I don’t know where you got that from,but sookie has more chances of ending up with PAM than Bill. CH has already admitted she was going to kill bill off in the fairy war but her editor persuaded her not to….if he was “meant to be” with sookie I don’t think she’d be offing him in then. and EVERYTHING Leif said.
And you know I would rather she end up with Pam than Bill!
hell yeah. I’d rather she end up with Pam too.
” CH has kept Bill around with his incredible burning selfless love for Sookie” omg I’m sorry…I’m laughing my ass off at his “burning selfless love” you CLEARLY have not been reading the books properly. And honestly I don’t mean to laugh at you,I respect this site too much to just laugh at anyone else’s opinions JUST because they differ from mine,but seriously your post is hysterical. Thankfully Leif has addressed pretty much all of your…um….takes on the books.
“However, every time she talks about the guy she wishes she had, if you read carefully between the lines; Over the last 8 books Bill has become that guy.” No ABG….IF you just read the books carefully you’ll realize….Eric IS that guy. Between the lines,in the lines,beyond the lines.
“Pam knew that money was not my ruling concern. What was the only thing I valued? His love.”
Wow, well said, and Imo right you are!
ABG….Well said. (ETA)
psh y’all don’t know what you’re talking about……sookie’s definitely going to end up with bubba!
Maybe you shouldn’t talk about how you think Bill is going to win Sookie over on a Eric/Sookie love site. It seems sorta silly.
Well stated ABG. Contrary to other posts, I respectfully disagree with some comments that your facts are incorrect. We each interpret these books differently; however, the fact remains that Eric (given the facts you listed above) is proving to be deceitful with everything from the Appius situation to his full knowledge of what his relatonship with the Queen of OK was to entail.
TBfan, you just put as much spin on that as Fox News.. Oh wait, I’m Fox News, that’s right. I keep forgetting.
Now if you’d please remember the fact remains this is an EL site, we don’t hide our biases here, and this is also an old post you decided to trudge up in order to leave an anti-Eric comment, for which no one here actually gives two shits about.
So I’ll say thanks for the traffic, but it would be best if you leave, K?
her name is TBfan = True Blood fan, that just says enough, I doubt she has ever read the books, she is just one of those obsessive Bill fans that have come to surface because of Alan balls Bill fanfiction “True Bill”; so discussion with her would just lead to nothing…
My short list: Bill (a girl can hope), Niall, Amelia and the long-shot, Sam. I.Cant.Wait.For.The.First.Chapter.
Amen to that, it’s Bill and only Bill that is Sookie’s one true love. You’ll see folks, it’s gonna happen in the books and on TB. And I can hardly wait!
LOL, it looks like it’s possibly Willa trolling over here. What’s so funny is that she is once again showing her lack of reader comprehension when she is agreeing to the above post, which is about Bill being either killed off or being once again the BIG BAD!
I wish a could post some gifs to let you know how you and your brain are quite funny.
my comment was for the Billsbabe who decided that today was the right day to be say something intelligent.
To say* LOL
You’ll have to wait alright.
Now shoo.
You people make me lol.
Good luck with that, dear.
Perhaps there’ll be two endings – one for “Aryan speaking” countries, and one for everyone else?
My God, the STUPID. I hope it’s not catching.
Now scuttle off home before my IQ drops any further.
Oh BB, you guys truly see what you wanna see. Eric and Sookie are going to end up together in the books and you’re terrified it’s gonna happen on TB.
Now run along, nobody here buys what you’re selling.
Ooh I so agree SVB! I’m not panicking either, this is what Sookie does, helps others that she cares and loves. *thumbs up*
i just hope this is Eric’s path to Kingship.. i mean Felipe’s demise was foreshowed in DITF just like Victor’s.. so hopefully Felipe dies soon & Eric becomes King & Sookie is his Queen even though she stays in Bon Temps..
she wont have to move or anything, plus if she becomes partner of Merlotte’s then we as a whole team ( Eric & Sookie FANS) are complete…
First, thank you because i was refreshing the blog like a boss for your (or Serena) post and thoughts about it (and here i thought i was safe till 2012 for a synopsis… The Web works against me
)
Then: “Eric always wins, eventually” – WORD!!
It didn’t scare me or made me panic this synopsis, i was definitely took off guards for sure, but the only thing that i think it’s a big trick with words if the “Woman he just drank from” referring to Eric, but i bet it won’t be as i seems to be right now reading this at first impact.
I just want to say that i don’t hate Book Bill. Yes he is boring and all, but i actually believe he is sorry for what he didi and the mistakes he did, that’s why i’m fine with him working with Sookie (this and the fact that it’s 99.99% obvious he is not a threat anymore).
I don’t want my hate for TB Bill to influence how i read the books and how i feel for Bill.
Now i can’t wait to read Ch 1!
And that KEEP CALM is so accurate!! xD
I don’t HATE Bill either. He wouldn’t be my first choice though, cause I don’t like dark people who brood. I LOvE Eric! He’s tall, brave, handsome, generous and a wonderful lover. What more could anyone want? (I’m very partial to blondes anyway!) Eric is everything in the books and hardly anything on True Blood which is why I don’t like Alan Ball’s version of the Southern Vampire mysteries. Anna P. is not a Sookie, by any means. Sookie is badly cast in Alan Ball’s version.
I so wish that the television series could have been driven by the books and their flow. It would have been SOOO much better.
I am thrilled that TB is taking it’s own path, along the lines of SS books, but not the same. Bill Compton in TB is my hero and my #1 choice for Sookie. I love what AB and writers have done with the characters in TB, but I am not a bookie, so I will leave the books to CH and her fans.
So why you and your amazing and deep comment are here?
Things must be very boring around BWW;) but we already knew that, didn’t we?
Let’s not panic people. *bites nails*
Great write-up SVB.
Much like the DR synopsis had us panicked – I think this is just more of the same.
CH did say, when questioned about the “relationship btw E & S”,
Quote:
“CHARLAINE HARRIS :
That’s a key part of the last two books, so I’m not going to get into it here.
– September 07, 2011 12:31 PM”
Eric and Sookie’s relationship will be a key part of the last 2 books. She is not going to make this easy on us. But the fact that I believe the last 2 books center around Sookie and Eric makes this much more bearable.
And yeah – a bit of a bone for the Beehlbangers, big whoop! I’m far more concerned about Sam, and that he wasn’t mentioned b/c imo, he is the biggest competition Eric has.
*Downs shot*
With the murder being in Area 5 Bill has to be involved in the investigation. Why else have him in that position.
I can’t wait to see FDC back in the game. He is an awesome character and I really want to see what his plans are.
Sookie’s enemy would have to be Freyja. I take it she is trying to make enough trouble in his area for the human police to get involved and just make it difficult for him. If he had to leave the area or even state she could offer a safe haven for him. Clever plan though sookie isn’t going to just Stand by.
After the shit storm that is season 4 I’m happy to feel my live for these characters revived
SVB I know, I’m trying to separate book Bill of his homonymous on the show, I do not think they are the same characters anymore (or Sookie…. or Eric), but it’s hard to swallow, really.
But pay my attention after 10 books, that CH mention the Bill’s position of investigator in the area 5, which is NOT mentioned since the BOOK ONE, if I remember correctly.
I understand the logic of his words, but I’m just NO patience for more: let’s torture the characters in the books by CH, in this case Eric, I know she cares about him, and if this is not proof that he is a main character in the books now I do not know anything else. But Eric has only suffered one hit after another since DITF.
And Sookie has suffered one hit after another at Charlaine’s hand since book 1
I would be more worried if Charlaine was treating Eric like….Bill. Or Sam. Both of them are getting an easy ride in comparison to Sookie and Eric which tells me one thing – Sam and Bill aren’t growing because ultimately they don’t really need to.
It’s a great thing what CH is doing to really push Eric, in my opinion, anyway. By forcing him into corners he’s got no choice but to react and make a decision. He’s been comfortably closed off for so long, all these problems popping up are forcing him to admit he’s more than just a ruthless vampire.
I think it’s high time he admitted that Sookie is his soul-mate as well. Just saying she’s his and that he loves her is not enough in the vampire world. Sookie would probably be able to read vampire minds if she was “turned”. Don’t you think?
It’s sad that True Blood’s Beehl gives me a visceral reaction to book Bill. I have to remind myself that I actually like book Sookie. Anyway I’m all for Freyda bringing out the big guns and testing Sook. With two books left I’m hoping for some resolutions.
Thanks SVB! Nice post. And thanks for reminding me that Sookie spending time with Bill isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Hell, she rubbed all over him, naked, and still didn’t rekindle a flicker of a flame. But I did find it amusing that we are being reminded that he’s the Area 5 investigator after 10 books. (Maybe CH is trying to remind AB that he ISN’T a king.)
My curiosity is piqued in regard to Eric feeding on another. I believe he’s sexually monogamous, but it’s never been mentioned since they married if he feeds on the willing at Fangtasia or elsewhere. I don’t think he’s taking other women home, but is someone trying to convince Sookie he is? Or is the body dumped there simply to frame Eric? Hmmm…
I like your take that the reassertion of Bill as investigator is a not-so-subtle reminder (probably to the wider audience more so than AB) that Bill has a place in this world, and King AIN’T IT.
I’m finding this issue of the dead woman intriguing too, it sounds like she’s been so publicly dumped to cause Eric maximum grief – both with Felipe, and with Sookie. Who I suspect will see this for a set up right away, since she’s going to be actively involved in trying to get to the bottom of it. I suspect Eric’s drinking from her will end up being a non issue – Bill also drank from willing donors back in book 2 and Sookie made it clear that she understood why but she didnt’ want to know about it. I don’t see how it would be any different with Eric.
And perhaps as a message to Eric about what might happen to the women he associates with…
Is it perhaps a threat?
That’s a good recall, SVB. I was almost worried that Eric drinking from other woman means he and Sookie were on a break.
I remember one time Sookie calling Eric at Fangtasia and asking what took him so long to answer and he said: “I was having supper.”
and after Sookie’s torture he give her blood and states:” I fed well.”
Both occassions, I believe are after the marriage. Also, Eric can’t feed of Sookie often (sounds leechy, right, yuck) because he’s at the point where he can accidentally change her. Also, he makes faces at his TrueBlood bottles. Soooooo, I can’t say that I think of him as milkshake monogamous in that way.
I’d also like to state that I like Bill but I like Eric better…bith AGD and Leif had some or few false facts…Also, that we don’t need to make one character look bad to prove another characters worth. I mean what if it had been Eric in the trunk or any vamp, possibly the same outcome would apply. But whatever…….*trails off*
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Well, it just seems that everyone is kind of pissed because of True blood and Bills constant annoying presence on there; I feel like CH is throwing a bone to TB Bill fans, its just kind of disturbing to see that we probably have to read a lot of bill stuff in the next book because of the fact that he is mentioned in the synopsis…
The Bill storyline on TB is so satisfying to many, many fans of that character, and the show. The books are a completely different entity, and so how CH portrays Bill, Eric, Sookie, or anyone else is entirely her prerogative.
King Bill is just where he belongs on TB!
were did you get this from the impression that I did get is that most people hated season 4 and the whole king bill thing was one of the main reason it sucked so much, everywhere I went to people were disappointed and that most people don´t care for sookie and bill is also a well known fact, the recent voting on truebloodnet showed that to, people even prefer alcide sookie over beel and sookie…you probably mainly read comments on those two notorious beelsites thats why you don´t know whats going on out there!!
We all give credence to the sites and the sources that agree with our opinions. And especially if we are influenced by other viewers or readers, we feel validated that our feelings and opinions are the majority and therefore correct.
I can go on and on about Bill fans on TB, many of whom did not read the books, and you can go on and on about Eric fans, most of whom did read the books. That’s OK.
I know there are enough Bill fans watching TB that he will not be ignored, and his character will remain important to the show. That is, and will be, a satisfying outcome for me. I have never said that I dislike the Eric character. All the major characters on the show have important storylines. The show is not the SS novels, so there is more room for different storylines.
No one has to be “thown a bone” becuase it’s not a contest. Unless, or course, you want to see it that way.
are you possibly Alan ball??
oh come on, I get what you’re saying about perception and agree to some extent, but that only goes so far as an argument.
Eric is the fan favourite on TB and by a pretty large margin too. It’s been that way for a while and by now it’s hard to find any evidence to deny it.
this is still a post about the book?
There are other posts about TB if you want to comment on it, just saying.
although the presence of Bill is annoying in the books, I have no worries about him in the book, except for being useless until now.
Maybe he’s finally making his work as area 5 investigator on the books for a change.
As for TB, it is a pity that even being King, he still can not overshadow Eric. just saying.
by the way: does someone know how many people voted on that truebloodnet voting, I really would like to know, if it were many people than the voting is even more informative; but like rosmunda said, its a well known fact that eric has always been a big fan favourite, lets be honest bill is not that appealing, book readers tend to dislike him because charlaine did write him as Mr. boring with a stalkerish behaviour (something he actually also does on the show, at least one thing AB did right LOL) and on the show bill gets propped up by with the book storylines from others, its just annoying to see pam for example getting disrupted just to keep bill the main focus, he even seemed to have more screen time than sookie in season 4, and lets be honest, most people don´t even watch the show for the storylines anymore, there are so many plotholes and unexplained things (bill can kill off older vamps wtf??) and most people nowadays only talk about how hot the guys on the show are and bill gets not mentioned in it most of the time…
I don’t remember the exact number, but they said it in the post about the results and it was over 1000 people I’m pretty sure…
I just checked – almost 3000 respondents. 2 842 to be exact. Over 70% of them had read at least one of the books.
I agree, but I dont think we or anyone needs more evidence about the Eric’s popularity, show and book, just go on google and see most of the polls, interviews, each by himself.
We no longer need to reaffirm it for others who will never agree with the evidence, and it’s pointless.
Just over 2,000 answered some of the questions(probably the Eric questions) but it’s not just that one poll. Eric is way more popular than any other character, Scream awards are public voted and on the TB facebook page before the start of season 4 Eric was by far who people voted for as what they were most looking forward to and they have over 9 million who can vote. It matters not though as TB makers don’t care anyway and he’s never going to lead the show, that became completely obvious at the end of this season, and this is a book thread so SVB will get cross very soon.
Thanks Evie
Yes, this is a book thread…so we’ll be getting back to the books now.
There are plenty of other places/posts for people who wish to discuss TB Bill to do so, including the forum.
Book post,go away.
Oh, and I am so excited to know Felipe is in town. Finally, we might get to know the enigmatic cape-clad vampire and whether he is a friend or foe.
I think bringing up Bill as Investigator of Area 5 is a way to keep him relevant to the story. Really what else has he done in the last 7 books but pronounce his undying love /lust for Sookie and stalk her woods? CH has to give him SOMETING to do and keep the BL’s happy and the EL’s crazy! She is very evil that way!
Thx for the post. I’ve been mulling this over since I saw it twitter. Not gonna lie, the bits about Eric drinking from another woman and Sookie and Bill working together don’t sit well with me. It’s not that I’m worried about Bill being the HEA because I don’t see that happening. It’s just that at this late stage of the game I want Sookie and Eric to be spending page time together, rather than her and anyone else. We’re into the home stretch now and whatever page time Sookie and Eric share will be all we will ever get.
I’m still not worried about Bill as HEA. I’m glad his investigator skills will finally be put to use. Couldn’t this situation possibly set Bill up as the bad guy? It looks like this murder is being blamed on Eric. I think we all know that Bill has wanted Sookie away from Eric for a long time. He even said that he wanted Eric dead in DITF. So I think Bill could use this opportunity to frame Eric.
I think show Bill would do something like that but I don’t think book Bill would frame Eric.
No, I don’t think so either. I don’t think there will ever be a “big bad” with book Bill, but that’s fine I don’t need one.
I’m fine with where he is in Sookie’s life and he doesn’t need to remove himself from it completely by screwing her over…I think his position as a friend with a long history is important, everyone has at least one of those in their life.
i think the synopsis wasn’t talking about a fact like “Eric did feed from this woman” but more like “what it looks like”, as “she is dead with marks on her neck on his yard, all the points he fed from her”.
A trap to let Sookie thinking he is feeding from someone else.
Am i making any sense? I hope so.
I wonder if Sookie’s enemy is Niall or some of the other fairies. They are pretty devious.
Thank you! doesn’t anybody remember that the last person who tried to frame Sookie for a murder was Colman? A FAIRY! The riff raff at Hooligans may have more in store for Niall’s great granddaughter
my first though would be someone related to Coleman or some fairy because Eric kill him in book 10. A very fairy MO, hence the blame game.
Great post, SVB! Yeah, I’m not worried about Book Bill at all. I really do think Sookie is waaaay past that. It’s been made very clear in the books – especially the last few.
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I’m trying to not freak out too bad. I’m less concerned about Bill, but more concerned about this Eric feeding from another woman business. WTH. we know things were a little rocky between them at the end of Dead Reckoning, but drinking from another girl? AHHH! I just want to read it right now!
** putting down vodka…stepping away from the shot glass**
thanks for the pep talk – it’s not over ’til it’s over!
I agree that the Bill inclusion is to just keep him relevant and a bone for all the BLs. Not an issue for me. If he stays in his “Eric” mode in this book, at least he’ll be likable and amusing.
The bit that had me going is the body of the woman that Eric drank from on his front lawn. Whether he’s done it off page before or not, we’ve never heard about him drinking from anyone but Sookie in a really long time. This seems to me to be the fallout from the “turning point” Sookie described in their relationship after the battle at Fangtasia and Eric’s harsh bite. I fear they are both so pissed at each other that they have gone their separate ways enough that Eric feels he has to turn to others, and it’s significant because it’s mentioned on page. I know they need things to work around to produce 2 more books, but it doesn’t bode well in my opinion. When has Sookie ever been forgiving of what she views as infidelity or betrayal?
As far as the enemy goes, I agree OK is the most likely choice. I did, however, think of JannaLynn who has a bit of a hate-on for Sookie after her trip to Texas with Sam. I also like the idea of Claude doing it to get her away from Eric.
Thank you for this, SVB. As usual, you captured exactly what I feel.
I get people are sick of Bill but I don’t understand the panic. It seems like every synopsis contains something that gets people worried (I remember the love she thinks she feels for Eric in the DITF synopsis had some people reaching for a stiff drink) but once we get our hands on the book everything is fine.
I don’t have my books in front of me, so I can’t quote this exactly, but there is something that Eric says in either Book 2 or 3 in regards to his perception that Sookie cuts and runs when things get rocky in a relationship. He says something like if that is the way she behaves in all her relationships he wants to know now. This quote, to me, was like CH’s statement that Eric and Sookie would be THE couple in the story but they would go through a lot not just to get together but once they were together as well.
I’m really trying to wrap my head around the panic. I think some of it stems from people thinking that TB influences Charlaine but after the horrific final episodes of S4 why people think she would be influenced by that hot mess is beyond me.
I agree about Sookie & Eric, tbrants. I feel that they’re going to be the endgame, but it’s not going to be easy. And why should it? A good story has to have some hand wringing and emotional turmoil before the end. If there’s a Sook/Eric HEA, the difficulties they’ve faced togather will make it so much sweeter.
As for Bill, while I’m not a fan of book Bill, I have no problem with him sticking around. I admit when I read the synopsis I started to get annoyed, but then I realized that was just more of the horrid PTSD from the S4 finale. I think it’s time to take a few steps back from AB’s fanfic and let the books take the spotlight. It’s always a pleasure to sit down with this series, and I can’t wait to see what unfolds in the latest book. The situation with the body really has me intrigued.
I do wonder if CH is infuenced at all by TB. I hope not. It does not say much for an author of a series if the show that was taken from her series can change her plans for her characters’ futures. I love TB, and I love Bill in TB, and I love S4 for having Bill be made King – and such a great king at that. But the SS novels should be just that, and not be influenced by the show.
They are two very different entities, as we have seen so far.
[I do wonder if CH is infuenced at all by TB. I hope not. It does not say much for an author of a series if the show that was taken from her series can change her plans for her characters’ futures.]
Thanks God CH is a very well adjusted person and a great original author who can create her own characters and stories. She is not a lame writer as AB, who needs buy and tweak other people’s stories because he can’t be original enough to write his own.
That’s the reason why, no matter how much “fanfic” can be written based on her original story, Beel is still only an investigator and never will be a king in her books.
Jesus could you sound more like a friggin broken record? Seriously go get a life.
exactly how bored (useless?) does one have to be to leave show related posts on a purely book related thread pray tell?
“It’s up to Sookie and Bill,the official Area Five investigator, to solve the murder.”
That doesn’t mean they are going to go all Shaggy and Scooby on us. *snort*
B/S may work apart to help solve the murder. Bill is good on the comp and Sookie is good at telepathy.
Question is… IF it’s up to Bill and Sookie to solve the murder…where the heck are Eric and Pam? Eric would surely try to absolve himself and Pam would too. So…is Eric being detained, entertained or chained by FDC and/or his contract to Freyda?
Agreed.
In fact, in the DR, as SVB pointed out, it claimed Sam and Sookie would team up to find the culprit behind the firebombing of Merlottes. Is that what they call it, when the guilty party saunters in, and declares in front of all the bar patrons that she (Sandra Pelt) did it? If that’s the precedent, then I’ll take it. Sookie can serve Bill a bottle of TB, and wait for the guilty party to declare themselves.
I agree!
Perfect. More time for love!
Thank you for the awesome write up SVB! When I first read this and saw HIS name, I saw red. I know it was from the latter part of TB that brought on my seeing red.
I refuse to get worked up about this, I will just wait and see what the first chapter brings. I am wondering if we are just being led to believe he fed from this woman. Eric would hardly be so callous as to dump her in his front yard. If he did feed from her, chances are it was not done at his home. Not very many people have ever been at Eric’s house, so why would a donor be there?
We have hardly ever read Eric feeding off anyone and that includes Sookie (beyond love bites) so my guess is that it was done somewhere else, and dumped at his house, he might even have been the one to feed off her. I am so stoked for this book!
I agree it was done somewhere else, and that Eric didn’t kill and dump her on his own front lawn. Apart from being ridiculously sloppy it would be just plain stupid! The thing is, he must have fed on this woman somewhat publicly for it to be known. How else would he be linked to having fed off the body in question? That’s why I think E&S must be still upset with each other and separated for Eric to do such a thing.
I think you’re right. I think it sounds a bit like Sookie backs off from Eric to the point where he needs to find blood from donors, the Tru Blood stuff not being something vampires can subsist on indefinitely, on its own. I think he may also be reacting to what he views as Sookie’s hypocrisy. He certainly didn’t react well to it after the ‘kill Victor’ party.Eric has never appeared to be much into self-denial or self-flagellation, so I suspect he will fall back to feeding from others if Sookie and he are on hiatus. You can easily see how two such stubborn characters could end up in a bit of a Mexican standoff following the events of the last book, both injuring the other (one physically and the other emotionally) and neither prepared to back down. Although I really feel Eric is going to feel (quite rightly) the righteous wrath of Sookie for biting her, and failing to understand or sympathise with her spasm of loathing for the bloodbath that occurred and her part in it. She is human and has a finely honed conscience even if it is overridden by her even more finely honed survival instincts when push comes to shove. The whole Victor thing has thrown Eric and Sookie’s differences into sharp relief where they can no longer be ignored. Whether love is enough is going to be the theme of the next few books is my guess. I worry that CH will pull a fast one and have Sookie pulling an ‘Adele Stackhouse’ and be alone bringing up Hunter as a HEA.
Great post! That’s mostly my take on how things stand currently, too.
I’m not too concerned about Sookie ending up alone though, she’s said that’s not going to happen on more than once occasion.
awesome you are a genius….so well phrased. That’s why I think they break up immediately in DL. Sookie looked at Eric like “he was a stranger” after the KVP. That can never be good. I think there will be a relationship and emotional standoff between Sookie and Eric…and standoff between Eric and the QOK…maybe Eric won’t give Sookie a divorce (hmn) seeing as CH is talking divorces.Whatever it is it’ll be Sookie’s falt and we’ll have to stand by and watch as CH molds our minds into thinking that whatever the outcome is, it’s the best possible outcome there could be.
Do you remeber when you found out that Bill worked for the QSA and was hired to date Sookie? (did you not fell the same mortification and flaberghaster-ment? Sookie found out she was living a lie, I found out I was reading a lie…It was the best of times, it was the worst of times)
And “bitegate” as it’s being called…CH made Eric look so ugly, I don’t know how I’m going to deal with her new brush strokes of him.
Also, some of you are wrong if Sookie goes running into anyone’s arms it won’t be Bill. It”ll be Sam. Right now Sookie just wants to be normal, but at the same time enjoys her slight supernatural side. Sam can offer that, and a bag of chips (I mean babies) They have a common drive. To be different but normal.
My instinct tells me that there will be a rekindling of Bill/Sookie in Deadlocked. I already smelled it last book when the two of them ended up sort of naked in a basement, and we’ll see if I’m right. On a lighter note, I believe it will be brief, and Sookie will have the ultimate proof that she doesn’t love Bill anymore. I think CH feels the need to give Bill a last chance, for reasons that I ignore: perhaps because fans want it, or maybe because Bill is still an open chapter in Sookie’s life, and he needs to be closed for good, before Sookie accepts the only truth that her heart belongs to Eric. Maybe CH wants Sookie to get rid of any regret, being it conscious or not, that she might harbor, so when she ends up with Eric she won’t have thoughts like “How would it have been if I had….”
We’ll see. I have faith, but I strongly suspect I will have to endure some B/S stuff through DL.
not, I dont think so, although I think that Bill will always try to get something with Sookie, I can not believe that her feel something, but only friendship, and that’s what irritates me more, how gratuitous scenes, and I’m with people who say that these scenes, over and over showed that Sookie does not to love him anymore, for a loooong time BTW.
CH is only trying to create a function to Bill in history. Why? for money, to appease the fans at the suggestion of his publishers? I do not know. But I’m sure that is not to they come back together.
How for Sookie find out who she really loves. This has not happened already? I mean she told everyone, e.v.e.r.y.o.n.e, who asked that she loves Eric, again and again and again. She no longer feels anything for Bill or Quinn or Alcide (snort), and about Sam has yet to prove to me that she felt something more than friendship.
Again I frieze, I do not know why people still insist that Sookie has to figure out who she wants, who she loves. This is very clear, the obstacles that are emerging because other things IMO. Isn’t doubt of his feelings. just saying.
I agree, especially the part about Sookie proving who she wants. I think the last two books had this purpose, it was written all over the page. This is not a question anymore and Bill is not a last test, that’s quite abvious from the books. And we don’t even know if they are working together, that’s how the synopsis put it but i doubt they are. Sure they will find their way to clean up the mess around Eric but i wouldn’t expect a collaboration a la Starsky & Hutch
Iìf and this is a big IF she has to test with someone is Sam at leats, definitely not Bill.
I disagree. I think Sookie still isn’t sure about Eric or what she really wants. She may have told to everyone that she loves Eric, and I sure she does love him, but in Dean Reckoning she was full of doubts about him, especially at the end. And now there is the marriage with Freyda, which has already multiplied her doubts and fears. Again, that’s my impression. I’m still waiting for a sign that Sookie is willing to fight for Eric. All I can say is that I hope she will.
Exactly! It’s make or break time…
And to be sure of her feelings she has to kiss/f** someone else?
I think she doesn’t need this, what could tell this abpout her if she need to do crap like this to prove to herself she wants him?
It’s a new logic to me, i should try irl .:lol:
Her fears have nothing to do with her feelings, her fears are about a life where she is getting old and Eric doesn’t, a life where he can’t give her childfren and maybe she is nto ready to close this door (even if she doen’t need him to have kids like she pointed in book 10…another clue CH was giving us), he fears are about the morality she still thinks she is following, which of course is not totally true, a morality she doesn’t see in Eric because she wasn0t ready to accept she changed for good (but this is what DR’s end was all about in that kitchen)
Her fears are about accepting him 100% and i don’t think testing this with someone else who is a Supe could help her cleaning her mind AT ALL. It’s like if i try to accept the man i love is a biker having flirting with another biker.
@Hime
[My instinct tells me that there will be a rekindling of Bill/Sookie in Deadlocked. I already smelled it last book when the two of them ended up sort of naked in a basement, and we’ll see if I’m right.]
I agree with you. I think this will be the opportunity for Sookie to achieve a real “closure” in her relationship with Beel. She actually needs to have it in order to go on with her life. And without it, he will always be a shadow in her life (as he has been until now).
Another question is popping in my head, not sure if you already pointed it out: has Eric been “monogamous” with Sookie, so far? I mean, did he only feed from her? If so, why did he feed on another woman? What’s going on? Did they break up? Is Sookie going to be upset about the bite cheating? IDK maybe I’m wondering about pointless things… But this doesn’t bode well for their relationship…
If Sookie and Eric had broken up or if she was pissed that he was feeding on other women, I really doubt she would work to solve this murder mystery especially since at first she doesn’t think it has anything to do with her.
Well she did work to solve Bill’s disappearance and save him from Lorena after he dumped her for Lorena so I think that precedence has been set. She would work to help solve the case to free Eric even if she was hurt by and upset with him. It takes it full circle in a way – she worked with Eric to save Bill, now she works with Bill to save Eric.
I agree. This absolutely reeks of a set up, and one that Sookie will see through immediately.
King Eric of LA and Faerie Queene Sookie in a ‘screw with us nevermore’ marital alliance FTW!
IMO Eric and Sookie probably are taking a break after the fight they had when Sookie was forced to admit her dark side, and that’s why he’s drinking from others. Frankly I would be more worried if everything was peaches and cream for them in the next-to-last book, since traditional romance structure demands All Hope Seem Lost just before the story climax.
RE Bill, I think this is just a way for CH to honor the character for his fans and give Bill and Sookie closure. I don’t mind Book Bill like I do Show Bill, and I’m fine with him having that opportunity and doing something good. I agree with SVB that he is no kind of threat romantically at this point, at all.
I think Bill being in the synospis is more of a “calm the BLs” thing. Everyone who has any sense of logic at all realizes Bill isn’t the end game. Most of this fandom, whether you’re rooting for Eric or another, realizes this. Sookie has spent the better part of the last few books making it clear Bill isn’t on her short list of HEAs. She realized she was no longer in love with him when she kissed him in (I think?) DITF. But the BLs seem to think he has a shot. If CH wants to keep those fan around until the end, she has to keep feeding them too. I’m not saying she’s thinking of book sales (I honestly don’t think $ has ANYTHING to do with it), more likely she’s thinking about the whole fandom. IMHO, if Bill had any other part (other than a sidekick I mean) in this book, the synopsis would be worded differently than “he’s gonna help Sookie”… Afterall, CH is a master at saying something without actualy saying it…
And I too, like some other poster/s, don’t HATE book Bill. I think he’s a creep, but I do believe he’s sorry about what he did to Sookie. However, having said that, some wounds can never be completely healed. And the fact that he was Sookie’s first love makes it all the more difficult to heal IMHO.
Also, on a different note… This post is a perfect example of why I love this blog so much! Great post SVB! Now that the travesty that is TB is over for a while, I can’t wait for the book talk to take over the interwebz!!
I’m really happy to see Felipe de Castro is going to be showing up in the flesh in Lousiana. Not that we didn’t think he would, it’s just great to have confirmation of it. Huzzah, vampire politics.
So about this paragraph in the summary,
I think it’s talking about two different things, and that last sentence has nothing to do with the top portion. Otherwise, it’s only hinting at one plot in DL, and Harris never only has one plot going on. I think it should be read like this: “… the dead girl’s fate has nothing to do with her. But she is wrong. / stop/ She has an enemy… ” As in, enemy #1 is the murderer and enemy #2 is something else, or they could be on the same side, but they’re separate entities, ie Freyjda is working with Claude and his hooligans, (and perhaps Niall).
Frankly, I can’t think of an alternative meaning to “Sookie’s world come crashing down” other than Sookie busting open the fairy portal with the Cluviel Dor due to whatever shenanigans Claude has in mind, and yet I can’t mentally reconcile Claude dumping a body to frame Eric in order to get that done.
And I think today’s geek quota has been fulfilled.
Totally agree with you Serena. I don’t think the enemy part has anything to do with Eric. CH always has one main plot surrounded by 2 or 3 smaller plots going on between (Sandra Pelt, goings on with Claude/Dermot/other fae, life outside vamps with Jason and Tara). I suspect the enemy to be either fairy or two-nature related. Otherwise why feature werewolves on the cover? Mr. Cataliades didn’t ideally warn Sookie to stay away “from the riff raff at Hooligan’s” for nothing. So, I’m thinking we’ll see those popping back up, whereas the Freyda/Eric/Felipe/Bill will be along the main vampire plot. We still don’t know who Kelvin and Hod were working for either.
I agree with you mostly but I do think that CH made it pretty clear from the wallets contents that Kelvin and Hod came from Victor…they not only had the exact same number of crisp new bills in their wallets but they also had business cards from Victors place of business. Not to mention they had no idea Dermot was a fairy(the comments they made about his ears made that abundantly clear)
OMG, I am so excited reading this. I am not gonna hit the panic button re Bill’s involvement in the s/l because I cannot see CH ever pairing these two again. That ship sailed and sank.
Who’s the devious enemy? I really don’t know. I don’t trust Amelia especially after her part in the bond breaking then setting up Sook with Alcide…WTF? And lets not forget Copley’s shadowy presence in the background. I don’t trust Sam, who knows more about the fae than Sookie realised. Especially on the subject of fae breeding. I don’t trust Niall – for me there has to be more to why Fintan forbad him contact with Sookie before his death. And for that matter, I don’t trust Claude. Something is rotten with those sneaky fae.
Thanks SVB, again! Getting back to the books is like salve on a wound. I can really sense with this upcoming book that CH is lining up her ducks for the big finale of Book 13. If Eric isn’t Sookie’s HEA I will be a stunned mullet. Sam would be a poor, lukewarm compromise and Sookie deserves better than that.
Wow – I love it! Eric seems to still be the central focus. No mention of the collie. I don’t know why people panic over these things, and really I haven’t seen anyone panicking.
I love to break these things down:
“With Felipe de Castro, the Vampire King of Louisiana (and Arkansas and Nevada), in town,”
Well this is good. It appears Felipe (whom I can’t wait to meet again) is in town, and is talking to Eric. He is in trouble probably about Victor, but not in so much trouble that he can’t drink from people. Which means to me, that Felipe probably has eyes on Eric remaining in LA and not marrying Freyda, which I always thought FDC would be a moron to give Eric to OK the shark. So yay – no marriage.
“it’s the worst possible time for a body to show up in Eric Northman’s front yard”
This doesn’t necessarily mean it is literally his front yard. It could be the Fangtasia parking lot, both would be considered his front yard so to speak.
“— especially the body of a woman whose blood he just drank.”
Well, it seems to me for it to be someone he just drank from and be known enough to frame him, then it must have been public. And if it was public it might be so simple as a donor that Felipe brought, and it is bad form to refuse your King. If he is drinking from other women I have no problem with that really. Bill did it all the time. It doesn’t mean they are taking a break although of course it could be.
“Now, it’s up to Sookie and Bill, the official Area Five investigator, to solve the murder.”
It doesn’t even say they are working together, just that they are both trying to solve the murder. And I think it might be a way to include Bill in the story, which might be essential to the plot.
“Sookie thinks that, at least this time, the dead girl’s fate has nothing to do with her. But she is wrong. She has an enemy, one far more devious than she would ever suspect, who’s out to make Sookie’s world come crashing down.”
I disagree I don’t think these few sentences can be separated. I am sure there will be a separate “other plot”, the fairies and Niall I suspect. But to me this implies IMO that the murder has nothing to do with Eric and everything to do with Sookie. I read it totally as someone is trying to frame Eric to separate him from Sookie. That Sookie is the real target. Someone wants her jealous of the woman and mad at Eric and Eric in deep trouble. So the question is who would be trying to keep Eric and Sookie apart? I think Freyda will be the first red herring, but I imagine it is someone much closer to Sookie, either Bill himself (which would suck because he is the investigator), Sam (because he wants Sookie separated from Eric) or the Fairies/Niall (who the hell knows why FF’s)
Great breakdown! Completely agree that Queen OK is too obvious as Sookie’s enemy – all the others are good contenders. I have thought maybe JannaLynn (wolves in the yard) but perhaps it’s a bit too similar to Sandra & Debbie Pelt for CH to use that device.
Freyda is too obvious
3 things:
1) So glad Eric is spotlighted in the synopsis. Yessss!
And who better than the investigator? Lole!
2) Fingers crossed that this book is more like the first books rather than the later books.
3) I have NO issue with Bill being mentioned with his title. I mean…what better time to remind us of his position than now? Someone has to take over as Sheriff of Area 5 when Eric becomes KING.
I would want Pam to be sheriff if Eric becomes king. Pam talked about wanting to move away though.
So damn happy I chose to read the synopsis here first!
THIS is why I love you SVB! Not only did you accurately describe my first reaction to that synopsis, you also managed to tamp down the nausea that occured after I read it.
I have to admit that there was a moment of panic upon reading that Sookie would be teaming up with Bill, but after reading all of your thoughts, I do realize that that panic/nausea was just because of TB-PTSD.
Bill is the official investigator for Area Five….I think that could be highlighted in the synopsis to remind us that investigating this is his job. Sookie is teaming up with him because the investigation affects Eric and she loves Eric. I also think that Eric and Pam aren’t mentioned as being involved in the investigation because they’d be suspects in the murder and as such, it wouldn’t be right for them to investigate it.
I have always thought that Sookie/Eric is endgame for the books because of what is written IN the books. It seems like there are tons and tons of things written or said ABOUT the books that are custom-designed to induce worry over Eric and Sookie. But every single time I read or think about what actually happens IN the books, I can’t logically see Sookie ending up with anyone but Eric.
I wonder if we will find out who Bill formed that special blood bond with that didn’t end so well?
Over Eric and Sookie Lovers (i posted it in the forum too, into DeadLocked thread) there’s a great article called Piece of Glass Part 5, where self-published author Deborah Court expressed her thoughts about the synopsis. I think it’s always good to read the pov of someone who actually writes books.
This is what she said:
” I just wanted to say something about the CH book synopsis that caused so much commotion yesterday.
From an author’s point of view, I can really say that book blurbs will never betray what will happen in the end. Which means that if it looks as if Sookie should get closer to Bill in the blurb, it’s very possible that the opposite will happen and she’ll get back together with Eric in the end. Writers want to surprise their readers, after all; but first they’ll have to create some conflict. I just don’t think that CH spent so many books with building up such an awesome love story to simply drop this plot. She made us deliberately fall in love with Eric, so I just don’t believe that she’ll not allow him to be Sookie’s HEA. It’s clear in her books that she loves that character herself, or she wouldn’t have spent so much time writing about him. All his scenes with Sookie put her previous relationship with Bill to shame.”
I think this should help to understand how publishing works
Thanks for posting this Mony!
I’m glad for your analysis on this. It helps me not fall into the deep end. I will continue to worry; that’s just how it is.
The last few books have been so without humor & romance that I have been worried. I realize they aren’t romance novels but I really miss the bits of humor that were great in the first 8 books.
I just wish CH would resolve the suitor thing in book 12 and focus on them solving mysteries together as a couple in the last book. I know that will not happen though. I miss the humor between Eric and Sookie too.
IMO,.. I don’t really think there is a “suitor thing.”
We’re at the 12th book with 1 to go, and for the previous 11 Eric has either been in pursuit of Sookie or in a relationship with Sookie, he’s seen 2 of Sookie’s other suitors come and go, both of which only lasted around 3 books each, yet Eric’s still there and in the lead by a large margin. Sam, who is probably the only possible candidate left, has never had the character development that Eric has had, he’s never been a romantic focal point, and we’ve never witnessed Sookie and Sam as a couple to compare it to her relationship with Eric. If we were supposed to believe Sam was the better man, shouldn’t the trial and error period already have started? Shouldn’t there be more to him? I don’t feel like it’s coming either as IMO DeadLocked is going to center around Freyda, this murder mystery, and the fairies, as well as any other plots CH decides to wrap up, like Hunter, Amelia, Just Call Me Cope, or even Barry Bellboy. How could Sam as the HEA candidate and romantic partner fit into all that? I just.. don’t see it. LOL.
What I think really needs to be resolved the mortality issue between Eric and Sookie, which can either be a conversation for Sookie to finally find out what Eric would think of her she grows old, or quite possibly CH giving Sookie more of an anti-aging advantage from Sook’s fairy bloodline. – Ultimately, Sookie just needs more confidence in Eric’s love for her in order for the HEA to be resolved, I think ELs could use some too.
“I don’t really think there is a “suitor thing.””
This is so true and I will hold my hands up that I often get caught up in this whole nonsense. If we had just read these books without seeing TB or being influenced by their marketing campaigns I don’t think it would be something that we would give much discussion time to. Charlaine never intended the main arch of her books to be about who Sookie would choose as a lover. Of course she won’t come out and say that officially now as I’m sure her publishers want to milk this opportunity for everything they can get out of it. The issues for Sookie and Eric don’t involve other people for me, the love is there on both sides it’s just whether they can make it work between the two of them. Saying all that though I do wish that Charlaine would give more time to Eric and Sookie together on the page, but that is just because those are my favourite parts of the books. Eric is my favourite character in the books and I want to see as much of him as possible. This is not how Charlaine works though so I’ll take and devour whatever I can get.
I love u Serena
Yup, me too
It seems there are two Northwomans. I saw the post and thought, funny, I don’t remember commenting yet on this one.
Thanks for the post and after reading everything I don’t think I have much to add. It’s great to have some suspense until the last book – so I don’t mind Bill and have no worries about him being in the game at all. CH said she knew the ending of her Sookie books since book 2 and looking back that was when Eric starting rising and connecting with Sookie and Bill falling in the background. This murder sounds like a set up by somebody close to Sookie (or both of them?) who want’s to ruin their relationship. Very exciting, cannot wait to read first chapter.
I am really worried about Dermot because Sookie still trusts him. He removed the wards around Sookie’s house and Belleions (or whatever, the elf) put them back. (we know Dermot is looking for the CD in the attic) OKAY, but Sookie is supposse to be weary of the rif raft at Hooligans… hello, they set the wards. I think they will be the kidnappers. As for Eric’s ‘woman in his front yard’, I believe that “front yard” doesn’t literally mean front yard either. And doesn’t even have to mean Fangtasia. I think the woman will show up dead in the area and it will be someone Eric has been seen with at Fangtasia. Maybe a waitress even, a willing donor. Maybe someone he fed off of after Sookie left the last battle. Maybe someone he had to drink from for “show” in front of FDC. It would be heart breaking for it just to be a random fangbanger and Sookie find out that Eric fed from her and now she is dead but hey, I am sure it happens. Sookie sure isn’t offering herself very often! We have seen the looks Eric gives her everytime she refuses. IMO I would love for Sookie to be heartbroken, she may take Eric up on his offer for her to move in next time!
As for Bill, I am worried. Call me crazy, but I didn’t like the role reversal in the last book. Down to not even describing what Eric was wearing but Bill slumming it in tanks and jeans…WTF!! and Bill driving her home, her naked on top of him giggling. His stupid lines about tit contests! Gross me out! Escpecially since CH said she has known how it will end since book 2… when Eric always drove her away fromthe Bill mess… and now Eric has to do what his maker wants just like Bill had too…. Worried, I tell you!
No it doesn’t make any sense for CH to have Bill as a HEA but she has 2 more books to make it happen, and I don’t like it one bit! And Ch being so admit on how she already knew how it would end worries me, I feel like all character growth be damned
Enemies: OK, Jannalynn, Dermot ( if he isn’t Fitan), Claude, Felipe, something is up with the beauty queen and her boyfriend at Merlotte’s, Agent Lesate (or whoever), I am afraid Sam knows more but more likely he will be some hero, Judith will come back too, I can even see Arlene as the enemy… Amelia and her Dad for sure!!! Weird Ameiia is talking to Sam too…Amelia weird to the core!!
I think Pam will leave or she would have been mentioned in the synopsis tryng to help Eric, IDK…..
seriously, it’s not gonna be Bill.
The only rival at this point is Sam. Bill has no real relevance in the story anymore, if he was dead (as was originally intended) it wouldn’t make a substantial difference because he has already played his part. Everything else is just smokescreen and misdirection.
Sam is the one to watch, and I have a strong feeling he has a part to play in the final resolution. And I’m not sure it’s a positive part…
I think Sookie would consider moving in with Eric if he asked her in the way she wants to be asked. If that makes any sense. Sookie mentioned to Eric that every time he asks her to move in with him it is when she is in danger (Sookie is always in danger though). I think Sookie wants Eric to really express to her why he wants her to move in with him. I guess maybe she is looking for some speech from him or something along those lines. This is just my opinion though. Sookie can still keep her house if she moves in with Eric. I don’t think he would mind Sookie keeping her house since it is so important to her.
I’m worried about all those Thank You’s Sookie said to Claude. I was starting to like Claude in DITF but I am weiry of him after DR.
I agree with you about Sookie wanting Eric to ask her to move in with him in a particular way, and for reasons other than her safety. She wants him to propose to her: to ask her to marry him and share his life as his wife because he loves her and wants her to be his wife. She never got the chance to say yes, and I think that’s become an issue for her stubbornness. Eric has been a little insensitive to her views on that point. They might be married in the only way that’s important to him, but she has definite ideas on the matter too. I think her attitude would be very different if she considered Eric to be her fiance.
So when do you thinnk the CL will be used? The whole thing about Sook having a bigger enemy than she ever knew and Eric being framed makes the cover even more interesting. Obviously she is going to use it in this book. And what’s the the letter, if it’s not just Gran’s letter?
I think the letter is something to do with Niall or Fintan – CH has confirmed that Niall is in this book.
Thanks SVB, as usual you manage to calm my doubts. Can’t wait for May.
Thanks for the update SVB and especially the calming words. There is a narrative here or at least a pattern here. Sookie’s perspective usually calls for teaming up with someone even if it’s Mr Bill. I remember how unpleasant it was at times with the WerePanther relationship. Sometimes ya’ just gotta do what ya’
gotta do. As for Freya, Bitch why you be hatin’ ? Blond cherries are just as sweet as red berries Biatch!
gee, i am not looking froward to read the book either than watching S5 of TB. More Bill? i am put off. I don’t hate book Bill yet but hope CH is not going the Alan Ball root. Please no more Bill I hope he was kill off in book 9, instead of Claudine. why not team up with Pam or Thalia, Bill eek.
I don’t put much stock in the whole ‘i’ve known how it was going to end since book 2′ simply because she caved to the publishers and did not kill bill.
He has gone from ‘a glorious death scene’ to wearing eric’s clothes, naked in a hidey hole with sook, her confidant and chauffer and a whole lot of other shit.
Sure Sook probably sees Bill as just a friend at this point, but I do not look forward to reading about her and Bill teaming up to solve a mystery.
i only care about where this book is headed.. is Eric going to Kingship even though he didnt seek it out intentionally?? is CH really going to write Eric & Sookie getting a divorce?? i personally dont think so ( but anything is possible)..
CH already told us that Sookie will get kidnapped in book 12 yet agian. who is responsible? Felipe or Queen of Oklahoma? is Sookie using the CD to get out of the mess? or agianst Claude? because some of the Fae are simply hooligans..LOL !!
Billy’s little role in this book doesnt faze me one bit.. i mean Damn, he is an investigator so it’s about time he starts investigating some shit IMO.. i mean we are going into that last two books for gods sake..
[...] Here is the link to the post on Sookieverse Blog. Check it out. It’s HIGHLY entertaining! My favorite line is: The collective outrage over True Blood (a wound that is still very raw for many), and the fact that so many book Eric fans feel insulted and ripped-off and completely BILL’D TO THE GILLS from the show – it’s little wonder that any mention of Bill teaming up with Sookie in these final books is bound to have us reaching for the vodka and imbibing it undiluted, and in liberal quantities. [...]
Thanks for the post. Agree, let’s not panic. Bill as an SVM character deserves to be
viewed separately from Queen Bill of TB. I don’t believe CH will take a drastic
turn at this pre-final stage in the story to make his Sookie’s love interest again,
especially since she made it abundantly clear that even being naked on top of Bill
didn’t mean anything to our telepath.
I really hope you’re right and the last two books are set as a series of obstacles for
S & E. Well, what isn’t an obstacle for them? However, with all the talk about Sookie
not having her HEA in the way the fans expect and CH’s reaction to questions relating to
Eric and Sookie (my impression is she created this brilliant character, he highjacked
the sympathies of the readers, and she’s angry with him) have led me to believe this
very unique and special relationship will end. I completely respect CH’s decision and her
freedom as the writer to do as she sees fit. The only thing I expect from her is integrity
and consistency: not to spoil Eric’s character and turn him into a lesser person than he is
only to justify somehow Sookie breaking up with him. This is the tactic that TB has
largely employed: taking away the shower scene, the killing of Long Shadow, etc, and in
general making Eric and a-hole compared to Bill, like in the last episode when he tried
to convince Sookie to be with him b/c he was better than Bill. SVM Eric would never
fall that low.
I want both Eric and Sookie ro be happy, whether together or not, but not at the
expense of each other. This is my only concern. DR hasn’t lifted any of my worries
about this. Need major pep-talk.
I think CH always comments on how bad Eric is just to keep people guessing who Sookie’s HEA will be. She’s probably trying not to show a preference for any one of the suitors. She doesn’t want to give away the end of the story.
I can’t picture Sookie being truly happy with anyone other than Eric. Eric is the only person that understands her.
Sam- Sookie has put him in the friend category. Besides, he’s too judgemental of her.
Bill- Well I could write a book about all the reasons why Sookie won’t be with Bill. lol
Alcide- he uses Sookie too much and acts like a jerk now that he’s the packmaster.
Quinn- He’s in too deep with the vamps for Sookie to consider being with him. If she isn’t going to be with a vamp, she doesn’t want a supe that’s connected to them. Plus, she never loved him; he was a rebound.
I think Ch started to make bad comments about Eric since True blood came up, thats why I always had the bad feeling that she somehow got influenced by ABs fanfiction; and if really planned to killl of bill in one of the earlier books, he wouldn´t be know mentioned int the synopsis and work together with Sookie, so somehow she must have been influenced by TB, but I also don`t think that Bill is a reall suitor anymore, I just don´t see anything romantic between sookie and Bill anymore, but TB has just messed up so much that people who really care for the books are seriously annoyed…
Also, Sam told Sookie that he would rather see her with anyone but Eric. I guess Sam would rather see Sookie miserable and alone than happy with Eric? Sam did try to get Sookie to enter into an arranged marriage to Calvin which was kind of insulting. I don’t really think Sam understands Sookie. Sam has a habit of dating women who have harmed Sookie or plan to harm her. I just hope Jannalyne doesn’t try something on Sookie. I do feel a little sorry for Jannalyne.
Hi AlphaEn,
I don’t know if you have read this article called “Two Peas in a Pod” by Peppermint Rose on her live Journal. It’s an article about why she thinks that Eric is Sookie’s HEA. I thought the article was well written and eased some of my concern about Eric and Sookie not ending up together.
Here is the link:
http://peppermintyrose.livejournal.com/53889.html
TB Rants and Raves also has some postings about Eric/Sookie as the endgame. I found these insiteful and helpful as well .
Here is a link to part one:
http://tbrantsandraves.wordpress.com/2011/01/01/sookie-and-eric-end-game-part-1/
In all honesty, I think it may be hard for many SS book lovers to accept the TB version of the story. The TB writers have their own slant, and their own way of treating the characters and the story lines on the show. I love the show, I love the characters on the show, I love Bill on the show.
But if I was a dedicated fan of the books, and if I concluded that Eric was the true love of Sookie, I too would most likely want the same storyline to play out on the show. So it may be easier to consider the show and the books as two very separate and diverse beings, with very different storylines, and some similarities.
See, I’m not a hard-core bookie and I’m perfectly able to separate books and show.
I’d have no problem at all if the show was completely different, as long as it was a GOOD show. I honestly just don’t think this season qualifies as good TV. There are so many problems with the writing I don’t even know where to start.
My point being, you don’t need to be a fanatical book purist to think TB has lost its way.
I never minded the the show was not exactly like the books either. I don’t need a carbon copy scene for scene of the books. I have said it before Lala and Jessica are fan favorites. Jessica is not in the books and Lala was murdered in I think book 1. I love Jessica and Lala and think that they are welcome additions to the show. The problem is that they do not even stick with their own established mythology at this point. They claim that the show keeps to “the spirit of the books” when at this point I do not think it does. This is just my opinion and the show does not seem to even make sense half the time anymore. Other members of my family watch the show and have not read the books and have no desire to read the books. However, they even think that stuff in the show does not make sense. A lot of Eric fans (not all) are upset because there is all this hype and hope at the beginning of a season and then it doesn’t amount to much. Some people feel lead on and disillusioned by the show at this point. If I was a Bill fan I would be happy that he was in more of the show than in the books too. Bill will be in more of this book so that is something for Bill fans to look forward to. Actually, I don’t mind the Bill/ Bellefleur storyline in the books.
Thanks for calming me down before I got too crazed because the Gasp when I read that brought in family members from the next room.
So, it’s nice to see the Area 5 Investigator investigating since I don’t think he’s done that (that we/Sookie are aware of) since like, ever.
Yes, hatred of TB Bill has skewed my view of Book Bill as well, but in reality I do recognize him as harmless to her now since she completely wrote him off back in book 3. Yes, Sookie is caring and a nice person, so she can stay friends with her ex and not have it mean more. But I still don’t want him as a main character in the story any more. Minor character is fine but I’m not liking his place in this synopsis. I just don’t. Just like I don’t like Sam being in the same position. Eric, Eric, Eric. That’s just how I feel. LOL.
However, that all being said, I’m sure this book will be great no matter who Sookie is working with to solve whatever mystery there is. And the fact that she’s working to help clear Eric’s name is what’s really important!
Maybe being around Bill so much will show her how he doesn’t understand her at all and only soldify her feelings for Eric.
As Mr. C says “The only person he knows that has more enemies than himself is Sookie.”
1. JANNALYNN – shows up in STW uninvited awkward moment to meet Sam’s mother. Luna’s comment to Sookie is. “Sam’s real girlfriend.” “Hmmm.” “So he (Sam) brings home the more presentable date, leaving the skinny…and very weirdly dressed…one at home. And then she shows up. And you think she’s his real girlfriend? You are having a hell of a day Sookie.” In DR we do not see any ease of tension in this awkward combination of characters – but now Jannalynn knows about the portal – she calls Sookie “Quite the surprise.” as if she now comprehends Sookie is much more than just a weak human to be tweaked with Alcide in her bed. Oh, and let’s not forget Sookie mentioned that she’s seen a lot of people killed the night before.
2. SAM – Acknowledged hater of Eric/Sookie relationship. He’s shifty all right. Know’s much more than he’s let his “friend” Sookie know – purposely keeping her in the dark? Organizer of the “Fur & Fang” website? Know’s about the Cluviel Dor – in cahoots with that little witch/bitch Amelia. BAD DOG! Would he set up Eric? Yep, I think Sam will betray Sookie.
3. BILL – The stalker of all things Eric/Sookie. Would bill rape Sookie emotionally if he gets the chance – sure. Being investigator of area 5 may be his chance, if he can do it slyly enough to look good to Sookie. He plays on Sookie’s insecurities about aging with Eric, and the beauty and power of the Queen of Oklahoma. Asshat.
4. CLAUDE – Not trustworthy and he has an agenda – get the portal open. Do I think he would hurt Sookie? NO – he was there guarding her life in DITF – he knew Colman was a possible killer. The closing of the portals was to keep fairies who would kill humans in. Claude was left out on purpose, a be-spelled Dermot was left outside by mistake. Would Claude kill for the cluviel dor? Steal or trick it from Sookie – yes – kill her for it, I don’t think so. Claude is at Sookie’s house because it’s close to the semi-open portal, his contact with the Fae world. His association with Sookie
and her changing is just a by product of his own self-acorbed fairy awesomeness.
5. DERMOT – Not sure if I buy that he’s Fintan. I read Dermot as a good guy – even be-spelled and crazy he tried to warn Jason about the true murder of his wife DAG. He watched Sookie to keep her safe from Colman, finally killing Colman to save her. Sookie released him from the spell DITF. Dermot is not always happy with Claude’s agenda, but he does not want to betray anyone either DR. This is why I feel if Claude really was going to do something awful to Sookie Dermot would take a stand on her side. Dermot hasn’t belonged anywhere for who know how long?
Sookie saw this when she found Dermot sitting on her back steps like a lost and forlorn little boy with his duffel bag packed and no where to go. Sookie gave Dermot acceptance and a home – I think that he gave her his breath in appreciation? (what it does for Sookie – who knows?)
6. QUEEN OF OKLAHOMA – She wants Sookie’s man. And probably counting on the bonus of getting control of telepathic Sookie herself by this contract with Appius. Eric has used his marriage to Sookie as a bar to the marriage with the Queen. But the bitch just keeps coming at Eric with more offers of power.
7. FELIPE DE CASTRO – A vampire king who wants Sookie as his own personal telepath in Nevada. Eric squashes his plans by marring Sookie so she can remain free to live her own life. Now what to do about Eric & Sookie killing Victor? Maybe giving Eric to the Queen of Oklahoma is not a smart move for Felipe, but breaking up Sookie and Eric would work for him now that they are no longer bonded?
8. NIALL – So many questions, glad to know he’s going to show up in the next book – anxious to know how and why. I do wonder how Niall will view Eric/Sookie now that blood bond is broken. The bond was already formed before he met his great granddaughter so now that it’s gone – how will Niall play Sookie? Dermot? I so want to know how Dermot will face Niall after his father be-spelled him crazy?
9. AMELIA – Never was what she seemed. But how could anyone think she really was? Way back in DD she was Hadley’s landlady, and you can’t tell me QSA just happened to park her lover in the house of a weak witch? Amelia planted herself in Sookie’s house by using Bob (a cat) and has been playing her all along. During the take-over she put herself by the Tiger for safety (Copley maybe knew more about the take-over?) Copley/Amelia one and the same. Bob? Be-spelled by a much more powerful Amelia? Bob sometimes seems doubtful about Amelia during the breaking of the blood bond and Sookie’s love for Eric? Sookie needs to keep that witch/bitch out of her life. Oops, now Amelia has dropped to Sam Sookie’s questions on the cluviel dor – not hard for Sam to read between the lines that Sookie has one or she wouldn’t be asking about it.
Octavia, I think is honest.
10. FBI – Is Sookie really safe?
I do wonder why Sookie never brought up Eric’s marriage contract to Mr. C – a supe renowned lawyer? Why would she listen to bill as an authority on vamp marriages and not question the lawyer himself? Will Sookie be a catalyst for all the supernaturals to gain equal rights in her world? I was impressed in the show of support from the Were’s and Shifter’s in STW – they were there for Sookie.
Will Sookie out the Fairies? (who would never come out on their own?)
Thanks SVB you are always and ever perceptive.
I think Sookie should be with Bill just saying, Bill’s my hero by the way, I don’t read the books…. will never be a bookie
Well, since this is a book post and a book site where most of the posters read the books, we’ll keep the discussion to the books. There’s little point having an opinion on Book Bill when you’ve only watched True Blood. The two characters are no longer anything alike.
Do you BLs always have to troll around on other sites, you are the vocal minority there is enough evidence for this, like the latest trueblood.net voting, even Alcide and Sookie pairing seem to be more popular;
and also you have never read the books then you should rather go to those two notorious BL fansites to talk about your precious Beel… this is about the books in this article and not about the show!!
Then why in the world are you giving an opinion on a new book coming out.
She hasn’t read the source material, yet makes a comment under the SYNOPSIS for book 12 – in a 13 book series. O.o
*epic facepalm*
An example of their intelligence.
I’ll admit that I hit the panic button when I read this, or at least I groaned out load. It was from watching TB and I am having a harder time than I thought separating TB and the books. But then I remembered that I really like book Sookie, so I am rooting for her in all this. UNPOPULAR OPINION ALERT: If it turns out she and Eric just had that brief, wonderful time together and she ends up with someone else or *gasp* alone at the end of the series, that’s fine with me as long as it is what is right for her.
Do we have confirmation from CH that there will only be 13 books? I thought that was still up in the air.
Thanks for the updates SVB!
Yes, we have confirmation from CH that book 13 is the end. In an interview SVB posted on the blog today, she confirmed that the end is nigh.
I want what is best for her too. But IMHO that will NEVER be Bill. He has screwed her over time and time again from book 1 on.
I agree heartily with your “unpopular opinion” and second that thought!
CH has said more than once that Sookie will not end the series alone.
If she ends up back with Scumbill after everything that he’s done to her, I’m going to lead a revolt and do an “occupy” on CH’s lawn. I want her with Eric no doubt, but at this point, ANYONE is better than B. I was soooo disappointed and frustrated after DR. If eric has to “set aside” sookie for oklahoma…does that negate the blood bond everyone thinks its still in place? Doesn’t that mean creepy felipe can swoop in and “claim” her as his own? If so, then why would he even bother to consider eric’s request to negate the contracted marriage?
I don´t think she is going to end up with Bill, unless Alan B. “True Bill” has influenced her writing, Bill has to many bad things to her in the past and their relationship was horrible in the books (in the show too but AB probably thinks otherwise *eyeroll*), I think they are more like friends now but there is not really something romantic between them anymore…
I don’t get the impression sookie will end up with bill. I’ve been feeling that CH has slowly started to ease his character out of the books, if you notice, he has less influence and er, ‘page time’ as each new book is released. So I am hoping she ends up with Eric.
Everyone is up in arms about her ending up with someone. Does anyone not wonder if she ends up alone or dead? I don’t think that Bill has a prayer or Sam for that matter, but I don’t put anything past CH at this point. I can even see Eric sacraficing himself or worse Sookie. The introduction of the CD makes me think that someone is on the chopping block. After DR Sookie discovers she really does love Eric without the bond, but has Eric discovered that yet? We don’t know. I see her fighting for him even if she gets a broken heart in the process. I foresee Sookie’s kidnapping to be the deciding factor of bond vs. true love for Eric. Her previous kidnapping made him suffer due to the bond maybe this one will make him realize the love and whoever saves her will be the HEA and if she saves herself then why does she need anyone else?
Thanks for the synopsis…I rather enjoyed it.
Sookie won’t be alone at the end, that’s been confirmed by CH time and time again.
Eric always knew his love wasn’t caused by the bond, so breaking it didn’t change anything…he had nothing to discover.
I also don’t get why she would only need a partner if she needs saving, or should choose him based on “saviour points”… that’s a rather…ehm..antiquated concept to say the least… lol
I agree, it’s sooo antiquated …
is not a competition, and whoever has more points takes the girl. Being with someone for having the greatest ability to protect her, it’s almost like being with someone for money IMO.
Harris has confirmed a number of times that Sookie will be with someone at the end, that she won’t end up alone…so I guess that’s the reason so much discussion centers around who it will be, since we know it will be someone.
I think it’s pretty clear in the books that the blood bond causing his feelings was never the source of confusion or conflict for Eric – he knew the BB wasn’t the source. It was the fact that he was having feelings for her at all, that was the cause of his conflict. His feelings were evident, even to him, well before the BB was established in ATD. He wasn’t comfortable with them at first, or even happy about having them – which is why he acted like such an ass in books 5 and 6 – but he knew they were there before the bond. He’s used the L word with her a few times now, including after the bond was broken…so I’m not sure we’re supposed to be waiting for some earth shattering admission from Eric; it’s been a process for him, as it has for Sookie, but I think it’s clear his feelings are and have always been genuine.
At any rate I also think the books have made it clear now that blood bonds don’t cause feelings, they just deepen a connection that already exists.
I kept re-reading the synopsis redaring the “especially the body of a woman whose blood he just drank” part because it bothered me for some reason – the wording I mean (and Eric drinking from someone else, of course). Just a theory here and I am probably wrong (or someone has already written this) but: could it be that it’s the body of a woman whom Felipe just drank from? Meaning, it could be someone worth something to him, hence Eric being in big-time trouble and Sookie trying to solve this? Someone framing Eric to get him on the bad side of the King? Just wondering.
my brain decided today that sam is going to die. after the brother’s wedding, i thought he might be sookie’s HEA (which annoyed me no end). but i’m finally getting around to a read reckoning re-read… and it came to me that i think sam will die. and i think jannalyn will be the one to kill him. maybe he tries to break up with her and she doesn’t take it well. i don’t know. but that’s my thought. and that will leave sookie the owner, or part owner (maybe controlling interest) of a bar.
IDK Rex, I think that Sam might get injured in one of the last to books. When CH was doing interviews for DR, there was an interview where someone asked her a question about Sam. It just like her answer alluded to him getting injured.
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you know what I wanted to say because I thought that it was important. Really important, at least in my view….You know how Sandra sent Tanya to give Sookie a hard time and then after that crisis we forgot about Sandra Pelt. And then all of a sudden she shows up in Dead Reckoning to finish, well, her unfinished business…..Well, what about Agent Lattessa who said that he would make Sookie’s life hard for her as often as he could, and hoped for her to get into trouble…hoped that she would get caught up in some kind of murder, in Dead in the Family. Perhaps, Queen Freyda, the more obvious choice isn’t behind the body at Eric’s house…Agent Lattessa of the FBI still has a bone to pick with Sookie, so I look forward to hearing…not necessarily look forward, but I’d assume we’d here from him…also, he has that audio tape with Sookie and Hunter, perhaps he suspects Hunter’s telepathic ability. Also, no doubt Quiana Wong (pyschic from “If I had a hammer”) will have something to do with Sookie’s choices in the final two books. I hope CH let’s us read the first chapter on her website.
I think that Niall made it so that Agent Latessa can’t touch Sookie. If not Eric probably has connections. I haven’t read the short story “If I Had a Hammer”. I didn’t want to pay all that money just to read one short story in the book. Did the psychic say anything important to Sookie in the short story? I bought Death Takes an Excellent Vaction to read “Two Blondes” and I didn’t mind the story but it was annoying that the timeline didn’t line up. Sookie was all depressed in DITF but seemed okay in the “Two Blondes” story. Now that I read the Cat/Bones books I have another story I can read in Death Takes an Excellent Vacation though.
I honestly think with the evidence from all of the books (because I’ve read them all even the companion books)that Sookie will most likely end up with Sam. We’ve heard CH say that Sookie will not end up a vampire. And if you haven’t noticed Sam is always in the background of every book. He is her “best friend”. They have had their romantic/sexual moments all throughout the book sometimes even when she’s been committed to other men. Just an opinion. I have nothing against Sam. I absolutely love Eric but I just don’t see it happening. Sam has all the things that Sookie seems to value in a man though. It’s harder to read his thoughts,he’s part of the supernatural world without having to become involved in the politics or pack laws(like having to mate when the pack needs more members) and he’s able to have marriage and children with her. That to me sounds like a HEA that Sookie wants and needs.I don’t necessarily agree but reading between the lines of this series…it certainly seems to be heading in that direction.
CH never said that Sookie will not end up with a vampire … she would never say with whom Sookie will or will not end until the series finale. That is one of the issues the books BTW.
I had to re read this but what Tawny said was that CH said Sookie would not end up a vampire herself, which is correct – she’s said that lots of times.
Can’t say I agree on the Sam thing but that’s news to no one
It’s down to Eric and Sam as possible HEA’s – but even if Sookie chooses Sam, I’m not holding my breath for a life of puppies and picket fences for Sookie. Harris has already excluded that scenario anyway – saying off page that Sookie won’t have a conventional HEA with a white picket fence, and on page that Sookie will never go back – and who wants to see her go through what she has only to have a “normal” life? That ship sailed long ago, I don’t see it. There are much bigger things than babies and domesticity on Sookie’s horizon…not even mentioning the fact that any children Sookie has will have a target on their backs, since we now know for sure the hereditary nature of her telepathy means there is a good chance of her passing it on to her children. Given her concerns over Hunter – whom she barely knows – I just can’t see her knowingly risking her own child being born a telepath into the world she inhabits.
ok, sorry, English is not my first language, and sometimes I do not understand correctly. thanks!
Plus, it is a challenge for Sookie to evade injury on a weekly basis. Chances would be slim of her carrying a baby to full term. Sookie might not even be able to concieve children because she has been injured many times. Sookie read Grans letter and in the leeter Sookie found out how much Gran wanted to have children that she was willing to do immoral things to have them. She thought that everything would be better if she had children. Gran;s children did not make everything better as Gran discovered. That letter served as a lesson to Sookie. I see Sam as the “white picket fence” choice. In my opinion, he is more of the ideal man who fits most of the check boxes. However, Eric is unconventional and unexpected.
I think that if Sookie was going to end up with Sam that could have been accomplished in one or two books (not 13). It is possible that Sookie could end up with Sam but I feel that it would be settling and the safe choice.
Also, Eric is not invincible. Eric has had several close calls in the books and in his life. The fact that Sookie does not want to become a vampire is not neccesarily a deal breaker. Eric can die someday too. Nothing is set in stone. Sookie has had more close calls than I can count.
I agree with you. I love Eric and his character, and I was thrilled when he and Sookie FINALLY hooked up in the books. But Sookie just doesn’t seem too interested in Eric as he is with her, if that makes sense? At least that is the impression CH is giving me (which is slightly annoying). I agree when you say you can’t see Eric and Sookie happening, which is a shame because it’s what so many of us want. I think it will be very interesting to see how the books end…
It is sad to have what started out as a thought-provoking mystery series turn into a shallow romance where the main thrust is which suitor the protagonist will select. In other words, this focus is boring, vapid, and empty. At this point, it will be most satisfying if Sookie walks into the sunset perfectly content on her own.
I will have to say I respectfully disagree. While the focus for a lot of readers is the romance, I don’t think that is the focus for the author. This is why so much of the books also focus on the very things that some readers are not interested in – Sookie’s other friends, her work at Merlotte’s, etc. The focus for CH has always been Sookie and her journey.
Of course, her journey also centers in a large part on who she will spend her life with – mine did too, until I met the man I eventually married and we started our life together. Isn’t this the focus of so many of our lives, really?
well there has always been a little romance in this Mystery series, Ms. Harris spent alot of time on Sookie’s relationship with Eric. aS FOR choosing , I personally don’t see a choice? Sookie is married to Eric and she has been with him for many books!
Okay, so I just finished reading the first chapter of ‘Deadlocked’ on CH website. I’m devoted to the Sookie Stackhouse franchise and I’m not stupid, but some things have confused me. I am a big Eric fan, so obviously I’m hoping Sookie will end up with him as I feel he cares much more for her than Bill or Alcide. The only other candidate I feel suitable for her is Sam – but I don’t see that happening (so Eric it is, yippeee). But basically, my point is, having read the past couple of books – I’m real annoyed with Sookie. Eric seems very enthralled in her – as much as a vamp as important and old as him could love a human – and Sookie’s attitude towards him is just very average. So I hope this isn’t CH’s way of getting the readers to warm more towards the relationship Sookie had with Bill in the first couple of books (or something like that). Also, I am hoping we will find out more about the cluviel dor and have some idea of what Sookie intends to do with it. Personally – I’m hoping her and Eric build a strong relationship and she uses the cluviel dor to advantage them in some way. I did have this crazy idea she could use it to turn Eric human – which is a lovely thought – but i guess wouldn’t be practical since I can’t see Eric being anything but a glorious viking vamp and also, there’s the issue of Pam.
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I just read the book and … oh well..no spoilers but I’m seriously dissapointed! Not on the Charlaine Harris-Team anymore.
Hang in there Jo. We’ll be opening up the discussion in no time.
A number of smaller bookstores already have it on the shelves in a few different countries Jo, there are already lots of people who received copies early from on line orders too.
This one needs to marinate, I think. Let it settle for a week or so and pick it up again. My experience so far has been that most people are having quite a strong emotional reaction initially (which I think is *absolutely* the intention), but once they let that settle and re read, their opinion changes somewhat
I have and it has
….. I waited ’til the the other day and the wait made a real difference. Ta for the advice SVB.
I swear, half of these comments are so long that it seems like people are trying to write their OWN books
Feel free to make a meaningful contribution to the cacophony.
Hey I am a total Eric lover but Ms. Harris has kind of written him into a douchy role as of late. So I’m feeling that she’s heading towards Sam and Sookie ending up together, though this is a very boring and unromantic way to tie things up. He definitely makes the most sense as someone she can have a sustaining relationship with, but I just can’t get enough of the passion she had with Eric. I’m just PO’d that she’s making his character more unlikable just to have Sookie end up with the sensible choice. Oh well, I guess we’ll have to wait til book 13 to see how it all ends. (TEAM ERIC ‘fo sure)
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