Charlaine Harris keeps ramping up the excitement in her Sookie Stackhouse books. This one has a werewolf war and a vampire power struggle and fairy intrigue and magic goings-on. And Sookie is, as usual, at ground zero for all of it. Her love life gets increasingly complicated. Her were-tiger lover has vanished and her vampire ex-lovers are all too present and, of course, her shape-shifter employer is still very interested in a more romantic relationship. Sookie's appeal is universal, except among humans who find her mind-reading disability most disconcerting. Sookie is brave and smart and loyal and very pretty. In From Dead to Worse, she also gets to meet a few relatives that she didn't know about. Since Sookie only has a fairly rotten brother to call family, this is a welcome development in her very stress-filled life. I simply adore these books and have just discovered the HBO television series that was based on Sookie's story - True Blood. Thank you Amazon streaming.