Have you ever heard of the TV show 'True Blood'?  Well if you have, this is the 10th book in the Southern Vampire Mysteries series on which the show is based.  The TV show is amazingly well done - just don't watch it with your parents.  I highly recommend the show, and I even more highly recommend the books.

"Still reeling from the deaths of her fairy cousin, Claudine, and many others in 2009's Dead and Gone, Sookie Stackhouse struggles with paranormal politics in her entertaining if slow-moving 10th outing. When Claudine's triplet, Claude, appears at her doorstep, Sookie reluctantly allows him to move in. The government threatens two-natures with mandatory registration, and tensions run high in the local Were pack. Then Eric's maker, a Roman named Appius Livius Ocella, arrives without warning, bringing along Alexei Romanov, whom he rescued from the Bolsheviks and turned into a vampire. "


As in any series, by the time an author reaches their 10th book, there is no doubt that it will not be nearly as good as the first few.  This is of course the situation for Dead In the Family, but it is still very good.  Charlaine Harris is an excellent writer, and I don't think I have ever come in contact with a better first-person narrative writer.  Sookie Stackhouse is coping with many deaths in the last "war" between the faeries and the two-natured, and tensions are quickly rising as political conflicts are infusing themselves in the supernatural world.  Don't ever think that these are just your average vampire reads; Harris takes your everyday political and social situations such as equality, homosexuality and justice.  She takes all these and incorporates them into a thrilling fiction novel that is hard to put down.  This novel is definitely slower than the others, but the series is still as fresh as it was when I started it last year.  You must check out these books.