Dead as a Doornail

Coming down off the better books in the series - Club Dead and Dead to the World - Dead as a Doornail is pretty dull. The central plotline - if it can be even said to have one - is not very tight or interesting, and there's too much unnecessary information. Normally, I like that Charlaine Harris keeps us grounded in Sookie's day to day life, but there was too much of that and not enough forward moving action. This book seems to exist more for the purpose of developing the relationships with the men in Sookie's life, which is interesting enough, but without a proper story to support that, the book doesn't really hold up as a complete work.