With the publication of Dead Ever After (#293) the "Bon Temps" with Sookie Stackhouse have finally come to an end. Much as I enjoyed reading this series, I think Charlaine Harris made a wise decision, although I do appreciate that she did not tie up everything neatly with a bow for Sookie and her friends and family. We may think we know where she's going, but around Sookie, anything can and does happen, and we can still imagine many possibilities for her...
There was more than enough action in Dead Ever After to keep the plot rolling right through the last pages, since apparently almost everyone Sookie has encountered since first becoming aware of the world of Supernaturals seems to have painted a target on her back, with a few new ones thrown in for good measure - vampires? check; humans? check; a devil? check. You get the picture. But just as things are ending, new beginnings are all around Sookie, too, with the promise of better things and times to come.
Some of the reviews I've seen of Dead Ever After express their writer's displeasure with the way Ms. Harris ended the series. As Ms. Harris says herself in the introduction, she's aware that she will never please everyone, no matter what she writes, but that she always had this ending in mind as she wrote the previous volumes. Without giving anything away (which is why I never read beyond the first line or two of the reviews - I didn't want to run into any spoilers.), I thought it was fitting and proper where Sookie landed emotionally after all the turmoil of the past couple of years.
Who knows? Maybe sometime in the future, Charlaine Harris will decide to let us check in with Sookie's future by writing a short story for one of her collaborative anthologies. That still gives us fans something to look forward to - a reunion with the folks of Bon Temps!
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