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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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I get that you're agreeing that vampires should be scary but beyond that....
Maybe if I'd read more than 100 pages of the first twilight, I'd get it.
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A friend of mine, told me that Twilight is the life that the author would like to live, because she is probably a sexually frustrated person...
Another friend, told me that the fourth book was good, and that I should try it. I read it skipping pages
(sorry if I spoiler someone)
It's a even big WTF! I have always thought that there was psychological violence in the way the guy talked with the girl. It got worse during their marriage... I skipped several pages, and she got a child and changes herself, and then every fucking thing, gets "incredible right" and the guy is not a violent emo anymore... He doesn't think being a vampire as a "punishment" from God. No, now that Bella is like him, with his child, etc. 100 yeors of pain and self hate and emo-ness, ended.
Message to stupid teenagers: "If you have problems with you boyfirend, and he treats you badly... get married to him, change youself to his like, and have his child quickly, and everything is going to be all right... becaouse it was probably your fault". This is what domestic violency is done from in my country.
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Very, very true.
Message to stupid teenagers: "If you have problems with you boyfirend, and he treats you badly... get married to him, change youself to his like, and have his child quickly, and everything is going to be all right... becaouse it was probably your fault". This is what domestic violency is done from in my country.
Same in mine, sad to say.