Sookieverse Blog Counts Down with Sookie & Eric in Book 4

The Sookieverse Blog is counting down the days until True Blood season 4 premieres by highlighting various elements of the fourth book in the Southern Vampire Mysteries series, Dead to the World. Today’s post kicks things off with their top 10 favorite Sookie/Eric ‘shipper moments:

Sookie’s Moment of Clarity

“Let me go home with you. I don’t know them,” Eric said, his voice low and almost pleading. I hurt
inside when Eric said something that was so contrary to his normal personality. Or was I seeing Eric’s true nature? Was his flash and assurance something he’d assumed, like another skin, over the years?

Why we love it: Because it shows that after spending time with Eric in his cursed state, Sookie understands that this Eric is not an imposter. Yes, he is different – but the Eric she is seeing now was simply buried by experience, he is not “new”. He’s not an invention, or a trick, or a false representation. Sookie has a series of smaller revelations about Eric’s true nature in DTTW, but this is the “big one”. She clearly enunciates everything Harris went to pains to demonstrate with Eric’s amnesia arc.

(Read the full list at SVB…)