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stefhyena 's review for:
Dead to the World
by Charlaine Harris
Despite all the things I DON'T like about the vampire/romance genre I have a sneaking liking for Sookie Stackhouse. She's a working class sex-positive (too much so but I love her anyway), funny, feisty, too humble without being a whinger, capable and ridiculously brave bar waitress with a bit of a gift/disability of the paranormal variety and the tendency to bed vampires (and flirt with anything else hot, male and supernatural). She's a small town girl, a Christian, so heterosexual you would think I can;t relate to her! She accepts gifts and domineering advice from horrid males that I want to punch for the things they say and presume, then beds them and enjoys the hell out of it but somehow despite a crap income and every man in the universe wanting to bed/marry her manages to keep her independence (as in her home, job and her attitude).
In this one her casanove of a brother, Jason is missing presumed murdered by evil witches, her boyfriend is off in Peru trying to get over her and one of his vampire associates, Eric manages to weasel his way into her...um...er...well she found him naked wandering on the road with amnesia so what else would you do?
As well as the evil witches, bar owning vampires, patriarchal werewolves and other shape shifters there is a hot and enigmatic fairy also various bar staff who are in most cases more than they seem. Nearly everything male wants to jump nearly everything female and vice versa which in almost any other book would be irritating but Sookie gets a lot of respect from me for being wry and not-sickeningly humble and working class. She may be hot but she ACTUALLY doesn't know it, she's not being coy she just doesn't get it!
There's also a level of sweetness to most of the characters which makes me forgive them when they are being irritating...mostly. Seen through Sookie's eyes at any rate they are ok.
A respectable 3 stars for being a fun way to while away my time. No revolution here, apart from having vampires without losing your sense of humour.
In this one her casanove of a brother, Jason is missing presumed murdered by evil witches, her boyfriend is off in Peru trying to get over her and one of his vampire associates, Eric manages to weasel his way into her...um...er...well she found him naked wandering on the road with amnesia so what else would you do?
As well as the evil witches, bar owning vampires, patriarchal werewolves and other shape shifters there is a hot and enigmatic fairy also various bar staff who are in most cases more than they seem. Nearly everything male wants to jump nearly everything female and vice versa which in almost any other book would be irritating but Sookie gets a lot of respect from me for being wry and not-sickeningly humble and working class. She may be hot but she ACTUALLY doesn't know it, she's not being coy she just doesn't get it!
There's also a level of sweetness to most of the characters which makes me forgive them when they are being irritating...mostly. Seen through Sookie's eyes at any rate they are ok.
A respectable 3 stars for being a fun way to while away my time. No revolution here, apart from having vampires without losing your sense of humour.