A review by megankass
An Easy Death by Charlaine Harris

2.0

A disappointing showing from a normally masterful writer. The plot and pacing were good, but the characters were terrible! The main character was so flat and emotionless it was like reading about a Holocaust survivor who had to completely emotionally gut themselves to survive. Gunnie Rose's world history deviates from ours after World War I, and it's a hard place to live, but it's not that hard. I think Harris was trying to write Rose as hard and tough (but with a really feminine name in case you forgot she was female), but it just came out as dull and uninteresting. None of the secondary or background characters were anymore interesting.

Harris also seems to get more judgemental with every book, obsessed about what each character "deserves" based on their work ethic or moral choices.

The romance plot was very forced with no chemistry.

I wouldn't even recommend this book to someone who was mildly curious. It's not worth even a few hours. For reference, the fantasy elements were minimal. This was much more of an alternative history western.