Dead in the Family by Charlaine Harris (the Southern Vampire series, book 10). 311 p.
I assume everyone read Allison's and Annie's reviews of this, so I'll just chime in to say: not the strongest book in the series. A lot of it seemed to be setup for stuff-to-happen-later, which is fine except it was really boring setup. Sookie even comments on how boring it is listening to Eric, her boyfriend, talk about vampire politics, yet the scene continues at length. I'm of the opinion that lampshading clunky tedious exposition is not the best way for an author to handle it--maybe instead the author should figure out a way to, oh I don't know, make it less tedious? Or at least figure out a more interesting way to include it. Most of the non-boring stuff was unnecessary. Although there is a nice bit with a local family discovering that the local vampire they're not too fond of is actually the family matriarch's great-grandfather--the situation was set up in earlier books, and I thought it was handled well.
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