Status Updates From From Dead to Worse (Sookie ...

Notes:
(1) "I'd spent time with Eric, who always rattled my chain…"
- Does "rattled my chain" here mean upsetting or titillating? Or both?
(2) "I had no idea what kind it was, and I hoped it was in a bag, because I'd never made hot tea in my life."
- Wait, doesn't she make peach tea all the time? Minus ice, isn't making hot tea pretty much identical?
- Do Southerners not drink hot tea? Or is that mostly a city thing?

Notes:
(1) Sookie meets Niall Brigant, who, if I recall correctly, is the last notable book character/element adapted for the TV show.
- Honestly, I only have the vaguest recollection of the show's last few seasons and wouldn't be able to say how close an adaptation it was—not very, if I had to guess.
- Honestly, I only have the vaguest recollection of the books from this point on—all the fairy stuff never resonated.

Notes:
(1) "I kind of liked vampires in general ... Being in their company was oddly restful. Okay, a strain in other ways, but at least my brain could relax."
- Uh, didn't she swear off associating with supes—vampires foremost—at the end of the last book?
- Relax? Sure, when she's not escaping mortal peril.
(2) "Sam is not a big guy, but he's really strong..."
- Yet again, Sookie introduces Sam by calling him short.

Notes:
(1) This is the first book in the series that I have no recollection of at all from the first time I read it.
- You know, I often say that at a certain point this series stops being primarily about vampires and becomes all about fairies... this might be that certain point, or at least shifts things in that direction.
(2) I'm hoping for a titular line in this one. Its absence in the last book didn't feel right.