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Oh, Bite Me Sookie
Okay, so I have a rocky relationship with the Sookie Stackhouse series.
They've never been ohmygod great but I've keep up with them. I really liked the first one, Dead Until Dark, and the next couple. However, imho, the books took a dive when around when Quinn was introduced. They seemed to fall into the classic urban fantasy pit of the books being about the heroine and her harem, but the last couple books pulled themselves out of that, with stuff about the vampire courts. And then we had Dead and Gone, which I set aside right after Eric and Sookie banged. Again.
Honestly, the last book was just way to much on Sookie's love life. It's become clear to me that Eric had fucked her emotions up good (which is textually explicit, but I'm not interested enough to hang around and see if the author does something interesting with that. There are more interesting consent issues going on over at Legend of the Seeker.)
Also, the whole passage about Sookie thinking about drinking vamp blood and how she'd never ever pay for it... but damn, has it made her hot! What with her getting it fresh and straight from the vein of one of her harem! was so thick with hypocrisy I wanted to slap Sookie.
That said, I can't wait for the next Harper Connelly book, which is a series that is much darker and more entertaining than the Stackhouse books - it has a more realistic set-up, I really like the heroine's power and it has a romance that is so epically twisted and delicious I would expect it to only exist in fanfic, much less be canon in a published book. I saw the subtext for Harper and Tolliver in the first book, and I wanted to get other people to read it so that I could check if my subtext meter was in tune or it I was out to lunch (I wasn't).
They've never been ohmygod great but I've keep up with them. I really liked the first one, Dead Until Dark, and the next couple. However, imho, the books took a dive when around when Quinn was introduced. They seemed to fall into the classic urban fantasy pit of the books being about the heroine and her harem, but the last couple books pulled themselves out of that, with stuff about the vampire courts. And then we had Dead and Gone, which I set aside right after Eric and Sookie banged. Again.
Honestly, the last book was just way to much on Sookie's love life. It's become clear to me that Eric had fucked her emotions up good (which is textually explicit, but I'm not interested enough to hang around and see if the author does something interesting with that. There are more interesting consent issues going on over at Legend of the Seeker.)
Also, the whole passage about Sookie thinking about drinking vamp blood and how she'd never ever pay for it... but damn, has it made her hot! What with her getting it fresh and straight from the vein of one of her harem! was so thick with hypocrisy I wanted to slap Sookie.
That said, I can't wait for the next Harper Connelly book, which is a series that is much darker and more entertaining than the Stackhouse books - it has a more realistic set-up, I really like the heroine's power and it has a romance that is so epically twisted and delicious I would expect it to only exist in fanfic, much less be canon in a published book. I saw the subtext for Harper and Tolliver in the first book, and I wanted to get other people to read it so that I could check if my subtext meter was in tune or it I was out to lunch (I wasn't).
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Tolkien was a genius with words and REALLY pushed the bar high as far as fantasy story telling is concerned. I'd say the Seeker series is more closely related to the Wheel of Time series, only a little more watered down.
WoT was also a huge reason I didn't pick up the SOT series. I consider myself lucky I quit that before the author died.
But, like I said, I stopped reading the series when it became nothing but Richard and Kahlan "I love you!" "No I love you more" fest. *rolls eyes*
*rolls eyes as well* Because that is just SO INTERESTING to the reader.
And I've heard good things about the Song of Ice and Fire. I might give it a try sometime.
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Hell, maybe I should make my own book rec/review post, seeing as everyone else on the flist is doing it.
It's sad that he died though, and without finishing the last book. I heard that his widow is trying to compile his notes and such to finish it though, in his memory. That'd be very cool if she could.
Oh, I know! I mean, the ONE thing I look for in a book is an argument over who adores who the most. Because when you're basically trying to rebuild the world, THAT is the most important thing to establish first.
Song of Ice and Fire is incredible. You definitely should give it a try sometime. Martin knows EXACTLY how to pace a story, and you can tell he's reeeeally thought everything out very carefully.
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Hell, maybe I should make my own book rec/review post, seeing as everyone else on the flist is doing it.
Please do! There is one thing about the first book I loathe but it has one of the best first meetings of a ship ever and then a hilarious lampshade hanging about how 'meet cute' (for UF value) their first meeting was.
I think you'll like it.
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What more do you need to know, really?
And I totally understand being wary.