A bad ending for the Southern Vampire Mysteries

I have nothing against Johanna Parker performance which was as good as for the other books and I like her voice very much.

I was very desappointed by this book, like most of the fans of the series. I could have forgiven Charlaine Harris for the 12th volume, Deadlocked, which wasn't very good but this ending of the series seems shallow and bitter. I'm a very good public and I don't read a lot of (vampire) romance novels. I'm more of a Science Fiction reader so this series was a new genre for me. And I did loved it until the 9th book Dead and Gone. I discovered the TV series first and after the 1rst or 2ond season, I found out it was inspired by the books. I read them without being able to stop even to sleep more than a few hours ! But then, it was 10 years ago and this one wasn't out yet. I didn't keep track then when the next volume was out and life goes on and I forgot.
About 2 weeks ago, I decided to re-read the series except I listened to them instead of reading them this time... and I listened to the entire series of 13th volumes (between 1 and 1,5 book a day) including the 3 volumes I didn't back then, with a lot a desperation and tears instead of the happy thrill I had with the first 9 books. The 10th, Dead in the Family, isn't that bad except a few bad written moments but this isn't the point of this review.
This final volume is like a bad flashback episode of a TV series were about every characters of the previous books makes an appearance. Some good, some bad, some we like, some we dislike but all at once in the same book it seems cheap and rushed. Like CH just wanted it to be over and all the questions answered in one book.
I think CH shouldn't have written it like that. It feel like a dismissal. Maybe she was weary or bitter or just bored but I would have preferred her to recognized she didn't like what she was writting anymore. I think somethings went wrong since the 10th book, Dead in the Family. I would have preferred her to stop writing anything and have no final ending of the series. She disappointed a lot of fans.

Spoiler ahead, be ware.

To be fair, I was team Eric since the 4th book, Dead to the World, and was very happy when he recovered his memory and feelings for Sookie in the 8th book, From Dead to Worse. But even without him, seeing Sookie ending up with Sam at the end of this volume, is weird. Their relationship had evolved more into a brother-sister one for a long time now and it's just seems wrong to me. And whatever the status of his relationship with Sookie was, Eric deserved better than to be sold of by his dead maker to be the consort (read strong and intelligent sex slave) to a vampire queen, as beautiful as she can be ! And for the life of me, I can not imagine him accepting this just like he did... In this book, he seems dismissed as well by Sookie than by CH herself has the figure of the perfect vampire he seems to be even if we learned to know him as so much more complex than that. A felt sad for him every time his named was mentioned and Sookie, as CH written her in this book, just seemed heartless. And Pam doesn't do anything to help him or Sookie in this situation. As a matter of fact, vampires doesn't often appear in this volume as more than an afterthought !

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