This is the 7th book in the series.
If you haven't read the other book don't even bother with this review, because I'll just rant about characters and plot points...

Major spoilers so if you haven't read yet be ware...

First a summary...
The Vampire Summit that as been talked about for the past 2 or 3 books finally comes on. Sookie travels to the hotel with the vampires. The queen's powers is somewhat shaken, because of the incident with her husband (the main plot of the last book) and also because of Katrina. The summit starts and looks a bit like a convention, meet and greet, wedding, Queen Sophie's trial, ball, other vampire trials, more meet and greet and networking, day off, closing party.

Now the real spoilers.
Sex with Quinn, as usual Sookie and Quinn have hot sex, we get one big hot setup and then (as a friend of mine described it) a cut to the fireplace and then is the next morning.
So the events... Queen Spohie's accuser gets murdered and nobody even suspect Queen Sophie? Then the other accuser gets murdered on "stage" and Eric sends Sookie to find the guy who murders him. Come on not even Eric saw it coming?
In between Sookie makes her grand reveal at the Queen's trial (for a moment there she can hear vampires) and all would be looking normal if Andre hadn't made Sookie drink his blood (she actually managed to drink Eric's blood again) and Quinn saw it. Nice big emotional drama.

And then there is the big reveal: The fellowship of the sun manages to infiltrate the hotel staff and plant enough bombs to explode it, under the radar of 2 telepaths walking all over the convention floor, even if they can amplify their abilities just by touching each other...

I liked the book, because i'm already emotionally invested in the characters and the book has enough rhythm to keep me going (I read it over the weekend, so it was fast), but the world is getting too complex and causing too many plot holes.

And then there is the one per book sex scene. Even if the sex part is just passed by, the fore play descriptions are awesome. ( )

The major focus of this volume in the series is a summit of all the Kings and Queens of the vampire world. Sookie has committed to go as a consultant to the Queen of Louisiana to use her telepathy to read the minds of the human assistants in order to help tell if the vampires are telling the Queen the truth. This is very important as the Queen's financial base has been devastated by Hurricane Katrina and she is being challenged over the death of her husband. Even with Sookie's ability she still finds herself in dangerous circumstances and being betrayed by those she thought were on her side. Lots of drama and action. Another good story. ( )

I loved it when the scene from the cover art happened! ( )

I actually put down a book of substance because I had to know what happens next. Is there an AA group for these books? ( )

Took a while to get through it, mostly because I know this series can't last forever and I desperately want it to!!! I'm trying to make reading the last few take longer than normal, but each of these books draw you in, they are addictive, you can't get enough Sookie :-) or at least I can't!!! ( )