Deadlocked
Sookie Stackhouse Series, Book 12
Southern Vampire Mysteries
Charlaine Harris

Ace
May 1, 2012 / 9781937007447
Fantasy
Amazon

Reviewed by Jan Fields

Sookie Stackhouse has always been a little bit fickle. In this installment of the series, she's having some serious trouble with her relationship with Eric Northman so the book is a little light on sexy sizzle. Of course, Eric has troubles of his own: his vampire king is considering whether to let him live (um, if he's undead, is he unliving?), a dead body is cluttering up his lawn, and he just might have to trade Sookie in on a vampire mate. And Eric isn't all Sookie has on her mind either -- her fairy kin are giving her headaches and her boss's main squeeze might possibly want her dead. This novel feels like a transition piece for the series. It does contain a mystery with the aforementioned dead body, but mostly it's about making a small shift in Sookie's love life and working out her relationships with her fairy kin. I loved the fairies. They were a wonderful balance of psychotic and innocent. And when Sookie finds out she gets one wish -- the answer to "What does she wish for?" turns the series in a whole new direction. I enjoyed visiting with Sookie; it had been a while. It's nice to see she still has a few twists up her sleeve.

Reviews of other titles in this series

Dead Until Dark #1    [review]
Dead to the World #4    [review]
All Together Dead #7    [review]
From Dead to Worse #8   [review]
Dead and Gone #9   [review]
Deadlocked #12    [review]
The Compete Sookie Stack House Stories [review]

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