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kaydondino 's review for:
An Easy Death
by Charlaine Harris
Well, I’m disappointed.
First, the good. We got a dystopia but it’s not your typical not-so-distant future dystopia its a 1920/30s dystopia in an alternate timeline. This I loved, a lot. It’s not as nicely fleshed out like a typical Harris setting but I’ll take it.
The bad: we all know the typical Charlene Harris heroine: kinda naive, makes illogical and stupid decisions on the regular, spends much of the book injured, and duller than a box of unsalted saltines. No surprise here that Gunnie Rose is typical in that respect.
Where Harris always shines is the setting and the wonderful, quirky and fully three-dimensional side characters. We don’t get those side characters here. The only side characters with understandable motivations are... well, I was going to say the guys that want to rape Gunnie wherever she goes, but not even that makes much sense. There’s nobody to feel emotionally attached to to root for here.
So we’ve got your typical Harris heroine, a bunch of bland people around her with motivations that we, the readers, don’t get to know about until the very end, boring action sequences and a boring road trip.
First, the good. We got a dystopia but it’s not your typical not-so-distant future dystopia its a 1920/30s dystopia in an alternate timeline. This I loved, a lot. It’s not as nicely fleshed out like a typical Harris setting but I’ll take it.
The bad: we all know the typical Charlene Harris heroine: kinda naive, makes illogical and stupid decisions on the regular, spends much of the book injured, and duller than a box of unsalted saltines. No surprise here that Gunnie Rose is typical in that respect.
Where Harris always shines is the setting and the wonderful, quirky and fully three-dimensional side characters. We don’t get those side characters here. The only side characters with understandable motivations are... well, I was going to say the guys that want to rape Gunnie wherever she goes, but not even that makes much sense. There’s nobody to feel emotionally attached to to root for here.
So we’ve got your typical Harris heroine, a bunch of bland people around her with motivations that we, the readers, don’t get to know about until the very end, boring action sequences and a boring road trip.