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 2016 Edit: I use the word slut in this review, negatively. In the past few years I have changed quite a bit. I try to not judge a woman by how many sexual partners she has had: her body, her business. I also try not to use slut in a negative way . I won't edit the review because it is who I was more than four years ago, but I did want to put in this notation as a warning. I do wish the author had allowed Sookie to embrace her sexual escapades rather than slut shame other women and make Sookie so hypocritical. Thanks. 
 And here we go again... My review of Dead in the Family. The first thing I must say is that this book was pretty much a waste of the paper it was written on, it had no plot and for the life of me I cannot figure out what the hell the author was thinking with this rubbish. After this I am taking a break from Bitch Stackhouse and reading my new LKH book, cause at least she writes a decent sex scene and Anita is ROAR female power. 
 Here we go, once more with feeling... 
 1)	Amelia leaves, well yeah she had to... There wasn't any use for her anymore as a character. Sookie is also dealing with healing the injuries from the "torture" and complaining about the fact she cannot have an orgasm because she was so traumatized. 
 2)	After a few weeks of getting off her ass and working out she is suddenly all better. She and Eric have a heart to heart of why he didn't come to her rescue, which Sookie finds out a mean vampire tied him down with silver so that he couldn't go to her. For the rest of this book her severe injuries are pretty much ignored. Now Sookie can start having orgasms again. Whooopee. 
 3)	Why does Charlaine Harris feel it is necessary to bore her readers to tears with descriptions of Sookie's gardening wear and equipment? I do not need a step by step account of Sookie doing yard work. Can someone say, "trying-to-make-a-word-count?" 
 4)	Sookie has got to be the world's easiest woman to please. Or Eric has magical orgasm inducing fingers. No woman I know cums to only a few flicks of contact, while practically fully dressed, on a couch no less. 
 5)	So Sookie's hot gay cousin Claude tells Sookie she has a nice body and what does little miss judgmental do? She freaks, she wouldn't have let Claude move in if she had known he had EVER been with a woman. It seriously bothers her that he saw her naked. Okay a couple of things a) He is her COUSIN and it has been made clear fairies are not modest like humans. B) By this time is there a man who hasn't seen Sookie in some state of undress? I hate how this character goes back and forth between prude and slut. B) He is simply saying she is beautiful; he is not tempted by the healing waters of mighty River Snatchhouse. But I guess since the MC is so used to everyone wanting her this could be an honest mistake. 
 6)	When Hunter comes over Sookie tells him they can watch "videos." I am concerned that Charlaine Harris thinks it is still 1995 with the way Sookie talks and dresses. Who the hell still has videos in 2010? 
 7)	What the hell was the point on wasting three pages with some more bullshit about how the vampires divide up the USA, now there are names of Gods with their own symbols...? I think the author's publisher was like, "We need another book fast and it needs to be _______ word count." And Ms. Harris pretty much was at a loss on how to fill this book up. It is seriously pointless info that the reader, or Sookie, doesn't actually need. 
 8)	Then we are introduced to Eric's sire and crazy little "brother" who was once the youngest Romanov child. Oh no, new scary vampires? And what else is that? a fresh body buried on Sookie's land? Forced fear, horror and intrigue... Blah, again this feels so random, and by this I mean the whole damn book. 
 9)	Another dense Sookie moment. She actually hides under her desk thinking Bill's program might blow up her computer if she puts in the wrong code. OMG....I seriously had to put the book down for a moment. This character is just the dumbest person alive; she gives dumb blondes a bad name. 
 10)	Eric is being a d-bag (not his fault...Eternal love for Eric ) and he tells her that he will make love to her and buy her a present to make up for the fact that he hasn't been around the past few days due to his scary vamp daddy being in town. Sookie freaks about the gift. What girlfriend is going to care if she gets a present? I personally love getting gifts from my Boo just cause, or even as an "I'm sorry." She tries so hard to be selfless and instead it comes across as unworldly and immature. 
 11)	Suddenly we are introduced to Judith, another child and Lorena's who looks like Bill's dead wife. She tells a totally different story about Bill and Lorena's relationship then what Bill and Eric tell Sookie in Club Dead. I think the author just wanted a chance to throw in another character and give us five pages of back story more word count filler. It is a serious plot hole, one among many. 
 12)	Sookie is jealous that Sam has a girlfriend, she was jealous Alcide has a girlfriend, now she's jealous Bill might be moving on with Judith. Look you stuck up slut; your vagina is not the be all and end all of existence! YOU either dumped them or wouldn't give them a chance this makes it so you have no right to bemoan their new relationship status. This is just another personality fault the MC has that is beyond annoying 
 13)	And again, pages of blah boring barftastic Sookie time, where she attends church, talks about what everyone is wearing, eats food, and cleans. I am crying inside for the trees that died to publish this book. 
 14)	So Alexi goes ape shit bat crazy and starts killing people. There is a huge show down between Eric, two fairies (one of which is the father of Claudine's baby who wants Sookie dead since Claudine and child died protecting her...LAME), Sookie, Eric's daddy (though he's pretty much too injured to count) and Alexi... Seems like it would be pretty intense but BUZZZZZZ! No dice, Sookie captures him with silver chains and it is over in seconds. A bit of blah blah later the book is over. Sookie and two of her fairy relatives climb into bed together (since fairies are like Weres, the need each other's company, barf), Eric has gone to clean up the mess Alexi made and Claudine's baby daddy is dead to. The End 
 Quotes and Passages that are WTF moments or just horrible in general 
 1) A red tear fell on my bare shoulder and coursed down. I swept it up on my finger, putting my finger to his lips-offering his own pain back to him. I had plenty of my own. Whatever bitch you mean your man can't cry on you? But you can weep all over him? WTF. 
 2) I had my very own orgasm, a moment so explosive it was like I'd been saving up for a holiday. So you, what, borrowed all your other orgasms? And who says stuff like this to themselves, so Sookie came, and it was great... This description blows. 
 3)Oh God, do that again! Worst sex scenes ever, I friggin swear. Who screams or cries this during sex? No one I know. 
 4)While looking at Eric's erection, That looks painful. Would you like me to nurse it?" Ok... I might say this if I was jesting and laughter (not a real bj) was the intent. This is just a nasty stupid statement to say. I do not think this author has sex, or at least not good sex. 
 5)In fact I don't know what a shaman is Apparently she failed U.S History where they talk about Native American culture, she's also never read or seen anything on TV or movies about them either. 
 Soooo... Since I cannot give negative starts this gets ONE! For being pretty much the worst book in this series. I can't believe how much my opinion has changed in the last couple of years. *sigh*