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mashara 's review for:
Dead Ever After
by Charlaine Harris
Well. My my my. That was amazing.
I'm going to miss Sookie very much.
The most interesting thing about this books (beside the fact that the vampire myth is kept pretty classic, which is not little) is what I like to call The Evolution of Sookie.
She starts as a lonely naive telepath, without friends or with only a couple that mostly use her to their convenience. Her life is dull, sad and she craves adventure.
Careful what you wish for, they say.In walks Bill Compton. The first vampire she has ever seen and all hell breaks loose in her life.
In the span of 13 books Sookie learns about love, about passion (and a lot about the difference between the two), about what makes her human (and more interestingly what means for her to be a good christian), she becomes ruthless, or the situations bring that out of her. But mostly even though she learns that she is not as alone as she thought, she realises that Sookie has to take care of Sookie.
She has come a long way and she really likes herself. She is comfortable in her own skin. In this book I haven't heard once how Sookie is fat. I did hear about her great boobs, and how good she is dancing. This book is told in the first person and what comes across is that, despite heartache and betrayal, she is going to be ok, because she knows who she is and she likes that person.
She doesn't want to change that person for anybody, and anybody that asks doesn't love her the way she is.
About the romantic end:
I love Eric, I have always find it the most interesting character, by far better than Bill. But they were doomed from the start (all vamps with her were). She never wanted to be a vampire, she has said so herself many times. Is a credit to Eric's love for her that even thought he would have turn her in a second, even though he took many decisions for her, he respected her choice, even when it costed him his love. That is great tribute to his character.
They are all very true to themselves.
And in the end she chooses herself. I can only do a fist-pump and put Charlaine Harris under the column "women empowerment writers". Well done.
I'm going to miss Sookie very much.
The most interesting thing about this books (beside the fact that the vampire myth is kept pretty classic, which is not little) is what I like to call The Evolution of Sookie.
She starts as a lonely naive telepath, without friends or with only a couple that mostly use her to their convenience. Her life is dull, sad and she craves adventure.
Careful what you wish for, they say.In walks Bill Compton. The first vampire she has ever seen and all hell breaks loose in her life.
In the span of 13 books Sookie learns about love, about passion (and a lot about the difference between the two), about what makes her human (and more interestingly what means for her to be a good christian), she becomes ruthless, or the situations bring that out of her. But mostly even though she learns that she is not as alone as she thought, she realises that Sookie has to take care of Sookie.
She has come a long way and she really likes herself. She is comfortable in her own skin. In this book I haven't heard once how Sookie is fat. I did hear about her great boobs, and how good she is dancing. This book is told in the first person and what comes across is that, despite heartache and betrayal, she is going to be ok, because she knows who she is and she likes that person.
She doesn't want to change that person for anybody, and anybody that asks doesn't love her the way she is.
About the romantic end:
They are all very true to themselves.
And in the end she chooses herself. I can only do a fist-pump and put Charlaine Harris under the column "women empowerment writers". Well done.