These books have officially crossed the line for me. At this point, Sookie doesn't even have the qualities that made me like her in the first place. She has become quite selfish and no longer as likeable. The logic with which the 'mysteries' are solved can barely be held together. The number of characters has again swelled, but the tactic of using a convenient war to kill of characters is getting old. Some of the characters have morphed so much that I can barely recognize them. 
 A strange thing to me is that Sookie is still complaining about her telepathy, but it doesn't seem to bother her quite as much as it used to. Originally she like to be around vampires and weres because she didn't have to shield as much, now she was able to walk into her birthday party with mostly humans, and didn't seem to have any trouble shielding or no one's thoughts really bothered her - which is odd because she supposedly still has the 'crazy Sookie' reputation in town. 
 In general, at this point, there are continuity issues and some of the character have basically become shells that repeat the same thing over and over because there are too many characters to actually work with effectively. I think the author should have tightened up this story a lot more than she did and it is disappointing to see this series decline in quality.