So my honest opinion was that this book was kind of the plot equivalent of treading water. A whole lot of nothing happened inside of the usually sloppy, overcomplicated pseudo-mystery that Harris always has churning around in these books. I don't think I have really enjoyed one of these books since about book 9, maybe? Harris feels like she is bored of the series - like she did a pretty cold analysis of the elements she thought made Sookie successful to readers and made up a formula to follow to crank out the last four books. (For example, mixing the mundane life details in beside supernatural events - you can always count on Sookie to tell us about brushing her teeth or shaving her legs or cleaning her kitchen in excruciating detail after she's had a run-in with a vamp or fairy. It may have added a bit of southern homey charm the first few times this conceit was used, but now... yawn. Just another way to fill pages with needless filler that doesn't take us anywhere.)
The whole story of the fae was ridiculous. So after all these plots and threats, the entire thing is solved by Niall magicking all fae out of the world in the blink of an eye? And Claude was evil all this time? Seriously? That plot twist would have received a big fat "F" in a high school writing class. What lazy, amateurish writing. Just reinforcing this sense of Harris being done with the series and wishing it would go away already.
As for the big question: the Happy Ever After character for Sookie....
Eric was pretty much missing from this book. And did absolutely nothing but glower and sulk and be a prick when he was there. Either Harris is trying to make us all dismiss him so we root for boy-next-door Sam (after 11 books of making Eric sexy and fabulous and desirable - good luck with that. From what I read online, most people are Eric fans first, Sookie fans second. They would rather read about the adventures of Eric in Oklahoma than the end of Sookie's story) or she is getting us all mad at him so that there is a more satisfying payoff at the end of the series with a big glorious reconciliation of Eric and Sookie. The problem for me is that I don't find their reason for being apart all that compelling in the first place. It got explained about a thousand times (another sign that it was weak - if you have to defend the plot move that much, if your characters need several conversations trying to convince themselves and the readers that this particular series of events really are plausible... well, maybe you need a better idea?), but I still wasn't convinced that Eric really has all these big barriers between him and happily ever after with Sookie.
Bill is being the consummate southern gentleman - eternally regretful that he done Sookie wrong and determined to use the rest of his afterlife to prove his undying love for her.... yawn. We get it.
So that leaves Sam. Dependable Sam. If Harris really is going to go through with this choice (which she has been setting up for a long time if you look back through the series), then Sookie gets the easiest solution to her dream of a husband and family. And Harris is looking for easy right now. An easy way to end this series. So my money is on Sam. I expect that Bill will make some glorious sacrifice to save Sookie from some other threat. And maybe Eric will come back and make a final play for her, but Sookie is feeling the old ovaries pretty strongly now, so unless Eric can scratch that itch, I don't see them happening.
And I am finding that as these books get more and more formulaic, I care less and less.
). So, I would say don't bother, but I know that many people are in the same boat as me - getting fed up with books that get lazier and crappier as the series go on, but still being really curious about what happens to the old Sookster. Sigh. Anyway, the rest is in spoilers for a reason! Don't read it if you haven't read the book already - I give away a lot! 
