(view spoiler)[ You would think that with all the problems Sookie has with people etc trying to get into her house and kill her, the last thing she would have hidden outside is a key to her house. And with all the trouble at Merlotte's they might have installed some security cameras. (hide spoiler)] 
 So, this book was severely lacking a plot. It was more like we need, in this book, an excuse to bring back every single character ever encountered. It read a bit like the Seinfeld series finale. And we have to tie up all the loose ends (which doesn't make for exciting reading) plus give (almost) everyone a romantic partner. 
 I lost sympathy for Sookie a few books ago. To a certain extent I put up with her stupidity/heartlessness, after all, I figure she's suffered some severe PTSD. Who wouldn't after what she went through? As for the much talked about ending... (view spoiler)[ I didn't even think she deserved Eric after what she did to him. Vampire royalty don't seem to have long lives in the US, at least, no way he stays married to her for 200 years. So I'm not too worried about him. As for Sookie... well she tells Sam she's wanted him for a long time, but somehow she never bothers to think this at any point in the last 11 or so books. And they previously dated and she thought he was creepy so this comment of hers makes no sense. I thought her feelings towards him were more as a brother than anything else. As for Sam, well, he dated skanky women who (he admits) he was just using for sex, and he didn't care how awful they were as people. This is not a guy who has a great respect for women. Either they were his friends or they were sexual objects. This is rather scary thinking for a guy you're in bed with. If a guy ever said that to me, I'd be running out the door as quickly as I could. Now if he'd said that he had been dating those women as attempt to dull himself to the pain of not having Sookie, I'd have understood, but that's not at all what he was saying. To a certain extent his whole attitude towards women reminded me of Sookie's brother before. Which further reinforced my feeling that Sookie had brotherly feelings towards Sam. So this whole thing made me a little ill. And really reminded me of the Grave Sight series ending. Maybe Charlaine thinks women like the brother/sister-ish thing? Or at least that's what she likes? (hide spoiler)]