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Living Dead in Dallas
by Charlaine Harris
Whenever a writer strikes me as particularly charming or witty, I want to love their work. Charlaine Harris' Mom perm and sweet Southern lady charm makes me want to love these books. That, and also the fact that I enjoyed the ever-campy True Blood (and Alexander Skarsgard, because do you even have to ask) and enjoying a movie or show that used to be a book generally makes me seek out the source material.
But Charlaine is too in love with the beigeish Sookie (no! tell us more about Eric!) to resist ever missing an opportunity to have a character fawning over her beauty. And again with the terribly mood-misplaced sex scenes! This time, Sookie and Bill are going at it but he has to be gentle with her, because she has bruises all over her body from being almost-raped and also had a massive car accident in the days before. Does trauma have any effect on these peoples' genitals/libido? Jesus.
There's a big orgy where everyone wants to bone Sookie of course, and it's kind of an excuse for Eric (now I'm mildly intrigued...) to hit on and lay on Sookie (oh, wait, nevermind) and make Bill jealous (LOL). Lafayette's death is investigated and that's kind of important, but eventually it seems not as much as Bill and Sookie'stepid whitehot lust. Some religious freaks hate vampires -- but also humans a little? -- and that gives Sookie a chance to shed gentle tears for the injustice that affects her sex partner.
If I'm being serious and less snarky, though, the beginning of the book through the first appearance of the maenad set up an interesting premise for the story that just got kind of lost in interminable Bill/Sookieness.
Tara and Sam are barely in this. Meh.
But Charlaine is too in love with the beigeish Sookie (no! tell us more about Eric!) to resist ever missing an opportunity to have a character fawning over her beauty. And again with the terribly mood-misplaced sex scenes! This time, Sookie and Bill are going at it but he has to be gentle with her, because she has bruises all over her body from being almost-raped and also had a massive car accident in the days before. Does trauma have any effect on these peoples' genitals/libido? Jesus.
There's a big orgy where everyone wants to bone Sookie of course, and it's kind of an excuse for Eric (now I'm mildly intrigued...) to hit on and lay on Sookie (oh, wait, nevermind) and make Bill jealous (LOL). Lafayette's death is investigated and that's kind of important, but eventually it seems not as much as Bill and Sookie's
If I'm being serious and less snarky, though, the beginning of the book through the first appearance of the maenad set up an interesting premise for the story that just got kind of lost in interminable Bill/Sookieness.
Tara and Sam are barely in this. Meh.