At this point if someone asked me to explain what the Sookie Stackhouse novels are about, I wouldn't even know where to begin. "There's this small-town waitress who has a lovable shape-shifter for a boss, a vampire boyfriend who owns a bar, a vampire neighbor who used to be her boyfriend, there's a werewolf and weretiger who possibly are romantically interested in her, some of her relatives are fairies which makes her part fairy, her brother is a werepanther..." I mean really where does it end!? But, still the books are entertaining and really enjoyable. I sometimes find myself annoyed at how redundant they can be, because the author is always reminding you what happened in the previous books. That's great if it's been a while since you read the last one, but how many people are going to pick up the 7th and 12th book in a series without reading the others? If they do, it's their own problem to figure out how everything fits together. How many times can Sookie look into her great-uncle Dermot's eyes that are "so like her brother Jason's?" That phrase is constantly repeated, I picked it up at least two or three times in this book alone. By the time we get to the 12th book in a series we really don't have to be reminded that Sam likes to shift into a cute dog or that Bill is her ex-boyfriend. However, despite all this I still REALLY like the books and the stories and I'll be sad to see Sookie and the town of Bon Temps go when the series finally ends.