Okay, review time. I like to read. I will re-read the TV Week seven days straight if I forget to bring a book to breakfast. Or even if I don't. I really, really like to read. I thirst for it... like a vampire.
Sooooo I got conned into reading someone's Sookie Stackhouses... and I just have to say.. Sookie? Really? Some heartless bastard named their kid after Sookie La La? Is that even legal??
Alright, they weren't bad, but they were pretty repetitive. If you've just read seven of these books, you don't need to told all about seven in number eight. If you do, maybe you should actually go and re-read the previous books. What I did like about these books is that Sookie is a waitress. She has to ask for time off to do vampire antics! Working long hours for butt all pay! Being looked down on! She's just like us!
That bit is good. She's a good old fashioned gal. I just wish she wouldn't keep referring to her word a day calendar and then using that word all the time and telling us where she got it from. I also liked the Tru Blood idea, bottled nutritional blood substitute, and the whole 'coming out of the closet.... where I keep my coffin' business. Most other vampire books stick to the underground society thing, so I found it refreshing. A good vampire series will actually show traditional vampire weaknesses too. The worst thing about Twilight... uh... ONE of the worst things about Twilight was that Smeyer loved her little sparkle vamps too much that she made them unkillable. Faster, stronger, shinier, mind reading, emotion calming, premonitioney mutants that don't sleep. Of course, they could destroy the 'evil' vampires. (READ: 'evil' = 'ones I was rooting for')
Sookie has no intention of becoming one of these desirable vamps - she's got standards, damnit! Of course, she does get into a surprising amount of inter-furry sex situations.. but she won't suck blood. ...Mostly. Now, the TV show... all I've ever heard of it is how sex-ay it all is, how hawt the main guy is yadda yadda yadda. So I watched the first three episodes.. and that's enough for me. It wasn't sexy at all! The into tried to be Dexter... and failed. All these weird non-book things happened. The sex was all boring, the main guy.. well, he smouldered, if smouldering means not looking happy about anything. Then the vampires turn up... and I stared in horror. Really? Hissing and fang showing like you're in a bad 80's gore flick?
Tara... or how it's pronounced 'Terror' - really is. It's like they bottled the essense of every sassy, wise crackin' tell it like it is black woman and threw it on the screen. Which... okay, sounds bad. Like racism bad. Although that's fine, who doesn't need a sassy person? Except, she really upstages the main character. Having her around, especially in the bar scenes.. makes everyone else's acting look worse than it is. She really gets into her character, and no one else makes the same effort.
My first foray into the world of Tru Blood was when I purchased some comic issues for this fan. Then I read the books and the TV show followed. So I was like.. wait... LaFayette died?! But... but he's in the comic.... an the TV show... what?
In another creepy Twilight twist.. it kinda does seem like Sookie, like Edward.. is mostly attracted to the mystery of Bill/Eric/Mary Su- I mean, Bella because of the peace and quiet one gets when one cannot telepathise one's loved one's brain thoughts.
Oh, I dunno.. I guess I mostly enjoyed them. I liked all the murder, plots and investigations. I just wish that someone would have given me a heads up about the urge to speak awwl luhk ah southernehr. Gawsh.
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