My
apologies, no picture of me reading this book...I took it back to the library
before it's "photo shoot" :/
What's the book about?
Have
you met Sookie already? This is the 11th installment of the Southern Vampire Mysteries also known as
the inspiration for the HBO series True
Blood. Now, I will be the first one to tell you that the first seasons are
so much better than the books (sometimes it does happen) but after the 3rd or
4th book I think Harris found the right formula...and that's when the TV series
started drifting from the books and we went back to good-old-me saying: oh but
the books are so much better!
Anyway,
back to this book. If you are not up to date with the series I would suggests
to stop reading now since I have no option but to mention some stuff that might
be considered as spoilers of the past books.
So,
Sookie is "married" to Eric
now, she is leaving with 2 fairy relatives, since her grandfather pretty much
closed the connection between the fairy world and our world and the shape
shifters have come out like vampires did, but turns out people didn't want that
much supernatural stuff in their backyard, so they are not too happy. Basically
that's how it starts.
The
plot of this one concentrates on the fact that Merlotte's seems to be under
attack (hate crimes? Who knows!), Sookie is pretty much in love with Eric, and
he is trying to deal with the new reagent. You know, typical stuff.
What
was different of this book?
At this point of the series is hard
to be that original compared to previous books in the series. What is different
of the series then, you might ask?. I have to give it to Harris that the
supernatural creatures she has add over the series are well researched. Not
getting into specifics, but her characters are well built, which is nice. Is a sherbet reading. What do you want me to
say, is light is entertaining. Also, it has way less sex than the HBO series,
something that I actually appreciate, the fact that she doesn't depend on that
part to build her book.
That said...what will set this book
apart for me is that it went back to the first ones. Fast to read, yet not
savory at all. Too many things happening with no connection whatsoever, yet
keeps telling you that they are...but they are not. At all.
What
about the main character?
I've always liked the fact that
Sookie is someone that tries to stand for herself. She is proud of her past,
she has some " disabilities" yet he has learned to make them advantages.
She is proud of her figure that she herself describes several times that she is
not supermodel skinny, but more round and healthy. That in our days is a good
things people.
That said...in this book she seemed
so helpless!!!! Every single time she is frustrated because of this and
that...and doesn't do anything about it.
The
10% moment
I usually like Eric as a character,
both in the book and in the series. But in this one...oh did I wanted to slap
him several times. He over abuses power, he looks like a sad washed out version
of the Eric I like...I got to the 10% knowing I wasn't going to love this book,
mostly because every single character that showed up to the party seemed like
they were being sedated...
Final
thoughts
I went into this book knowing it was
a light reading. Knowing that was not a thinker. But I have to say, I'm disappointed.
I expected a bit more and somehow I feel that Harris is trying to make the TV
series come back to the books, but she is doing it by accommodating to the TV
series plots and not by offering something much more enticing. I found myself
shaking my head several times in disapproval.
It did not took away my
"desire" to read the next one,
Deadlocked. So just because of that
is getting a 3 instead of a 2. Let's just hope the next one is a little bit
better. I would hate to quit the series since it is entertaining (well,
usually)
This is book makes part of my Sequel Challenge :)
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