Wow, I never thought I'd give a 2-star rating to a Charlaine Harris novel, but this was seriously disappointing. The story was flat; the mood... well, I think the word 'cranky' best describes it. I fell in love with the first book in this series because it was at once sexy and laugh-out-loud hilarious, and as the series developed, it was emotionally rich and compelling. But by this book, Sookie seems to just spiral deeper and deeper into a well of bitter, angry self-absorption, and I stopped caring about her.