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serynA lot of series books either start to suck or they start to read like they've been ghostwritten. Charlaine Harris is no exception to this. Unfortunately, not all of this book had that spectral flavor.
Dead In The Family starts out reminding us of stuff that happened in the previous book, but what she is summing up does not closely resemble what I remember reading. It wasn't until this one specific detail 4-5 pages in that I was finally convinced that I hadn't missed a volume.
There were some details in this book which irritated me. 1) Sookie falling for that "family is everything" business again. Though it was written like she gets value from interacting with her brother, I think he should have been killed 7 books ago because he's a complete ass. 2) Sookie having trouble buying clothes because even though she works nights and the local store closes at a normal time, they won't be open. 2a) Woman who owns the clothing store can't find anything to wear while pregnant because her store doesn't carry maternity things. [Honestly, you are your own advertising as a sole proprietor. If you look like trailer trash just because you're pregnant, then your clothing store deserves to go under. Maybe that makes 2 make more sense, she just didn't want to shop there and wanted an excuse.] 3) the interactions with Pam (the vampire). 4) the large percentage of pregnant women.
Basically my problems with this book are single-fold: Sookie is a poor southern girl who, even though she's got actually miraculous abilities and coincident opportunities refuses to leave this backward dump of a town that's a pimple on the state which is akin to flaming hell.
I didn't particularly find the plot interesting, but I read them more like people watch soap operas, to watch what's going on in the characters' lives, so I don't mind so much that the plot was puerile.
These would be fantastic books if Sookie had taken her telepathy and moved to Chicago or Los Angeles once she got enough vampire blood to control it, and if she stopped undermining herself by letting her trailer trash roots hold her back to being a low-paid barmaid who is expected to be grateful her boss lets them lock up their purses in his desk.
meh. There are better choices.
Dead In The Family starts out reminding us of stuff that happened in the previous book, but what she is summing up does not closely resemble what I remember reading. It wasn't until this one specific detail 4-5 pages in that I was finally convinced that I hadn't missed a volume.
There were some details in this book which irritated me. 1) Sookie falling for that "family is everything" business again. Though it was written like she gets value from interacting with her brother, I think he should have been killed 7 books ago because he's a complete ass. 2) Sookie having trouble buying clothes because even though she works nights and the local store closes at a normal time, they won't be open. 2a) Woman who owns the clothing store can't find anything to wear while pregnant because her store doesn't carry maternity things. [Honestly, you are your own advertising as a sole proprietor. If you look like trailer trash just because you're pregnant, then your clothing store deserves to go under. Maybe that makes 2 make more sense, she just didn't want to shop there and wanted an excuse.] 3) the interactions with Pam (the vampire). 4) the large percentage of pregnant women.
Basically my problems with this book are single-fold: Sookie is a poor southern girl who, even though she's got actually miraculous abilities and coincident opportunities refuses to leave this backward dump of a town that's a pimple on the state which is akin to flaming hell.
I didn't particularly find the plot interesting, but I read them more like people watch soap operas, to watch what's going on in the characters' lives, so I don't mind so much that the plot was puerile.
These would be fantastic books if Sookie had taken her telepathy and moved to Chicago or Los Angeles once she got enough vampire blood to control it, and if she stopped undermining herself by letting her trailer trash roots hold her back to being a low-paid barmaid who is expected to be grateful her boss lets them lock up their purses in his desk.
meh. There are better choices.
