Dead Ever After
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Let's be fair.....
gertt wrote: "Izzy wrote: "I started this series 9 years ago because I was aware it was about vampires. Why include all of that information about vampire politics if it wasn't going to amount to anything? If it'..."I never saw Sam as a love interest because Sookie herself never considered him as a love interest. In every single book, she always considered him as a friend and nothing more. She even said at one point that the thought of a physical relationship with him made her a bit ill.
I also thought of Sam as a coward, to be honest. He may have had feelings for Sookie since the beginning but he only acted on them when he realised that Sookie had other men in her life.
And in the novella 'Small Town Wedding' (which actually turns out to be important as it's about Sam and Sookie, and yet it's not in the main books) instead of inviting his current girlfriend to his family's wedding, he invites Sookie because he think she would make a better impression.
That's just awful. Awful, awful, awful. In that story, he came across as a lying sleazeball who was a coward. Sookie was worse, in my opinion, because she actually went along with it! She pretended to be his girlfriend even though they both had a partner back at home.
I never thought Sookie wanted a family, either. She didn't want to pass down her telepathy and she was terrible when talking to Hunter. I certainly don't remember saying outright, "I really, really want to have a child." I know CH said on her forum that Sookie wanted a family but in the books, Sookie was deeply concerned that she would pass her telepathy down to her family and she didn't want that for them.
CH is just all over the place at the moment. When I was a fan, I gave her more credit than what she was due.
I'm surprised so many people hated this book. I thought it was just about the same as the last handful, as Gertt said. I didn't think it was spectacular or the best in the series, but I certainly wasn't surprised that she ended up with Sam. From close to the beginning of the series, I expected her to end up with him. She says in multiple books that he stars in her sexual fantasies. Though I always rooted for Eric, I had guessed this ending a while back. And let's not forget, Sam is a supernatural, too. He's just one who can give Sookie the family that she has craved more and more as the series went on. Several times throughout, she has had doubts about ending up with a vamp b/c they can't give her a baby. And in the book before this one, all she seems able to talk about is Tara's babies, and throwing a baby shower, etc. I may not have liked where the book ended, but to be fair to the author, I do think she's pointed us in that direction for a while now. (On a separate note, how could she say she does not like vampires or ppl who read about them after so many of us have followed her through this whole series? YIKES!)
I think you mean Claudette, but I completely agree. The faerie aspect and the politics bored me some. I preferred the early books, as I found them more humorous, sexy, and mysterious. After the mystery element left the series, I was not as interested in a lot of the filler that replaced it. I'm not sure if she said that. I haven't seen it in her words. It seems like a risky thing for an author to say.
Agree, Lena, the whole faerie war thing - meh! - that was the turning point in the series for me.And yes, yes! Izzy, exactly with Sookie not wanting to pass on her telepathy. I could understand her wanting kids, and I know she does covet them increasingly as the series goes on, but she hates her telepathy - never comes to accept it as a gift, as you say - and I can't believe she would be so selfish as to run the risk of passing on that "curse".
Was Hunter supposed to make the reader think "hey telepathic kids aren't so bad"? I can't see that he served any real purpose.
Charlaine Harris said some time ago, on her website, that Sookie would have a Happily Ever After, and that would involve her being able to have the family she wanted. That was a pretty big indicator that she wouldn't end up with a vampire. Unless something amazingly magical happened to make them all, or at least one of them, not dead.
Instead - urgh - Sam.
That's just a Dreary Ever After.
Authors - they can do whatever they want.
Readers - we don't have to like it.
Obviously as an author she has the right to write whatever she pleases - but the way she treated this series would make me very leery of ever beginning, much lest investing in, any new series she would decide to write. This last book seemed to be all about Ms. Harris trying to make everything that had come before suddenly fit into the end game she had only just decided on.
The blatant ignoring of things she had already created in the canon was just disrespectful to the reader.
Add to that throwing every past character she could think of into the mix for no comprehensible reason and what you have is a muddled mess.
If Sookie's choice was the end game she wanted she should have been doing something in every past book that would have made the eventual end make sense.
Personally I think she realized 1/2 way through the next to last book that she hadn't a clue how to give readers the ending they wanted - because she refused to make the hard choice of making Sookie a vamp or Eric somehow mortal - and because she didn't trust readers to be OK with just knowing that they were working on it even if there was no definitive answer as to how it would end.
As a reader I felt like she spent a lot of time investing me in one relationship and then tried to make me feel dumb for having done so.
I'm not sorry I've read the books, but I do hate the way they ended...I think it fit well with Eric's persona, to go off with Freyda. But what the F was up with his demands for Sookie's life after him? That didn't feel like 'my' Eric...
I can see how he wanted Sam 'not to get in line' for Sookie's bed and heart, but the rest just felt like a neat little bow, CH wanted to tie around Sookie's life, so she coul live 'happily ever after'...
I've felt throughout the books, that Sookie wanted kids, though she didn't wan't to pass her 'curse' on to her kids. I've always felt, that Sookie was really ambivalent about her future, theoretically kids, and I son't believe that she will actually end up having kids. And if she does, she will hate herself everyday of their life, if they end up with 'essential spark', and therefore telepathy. Especially if these hypothetical kids gets involved with vamps, and how could they not? Since it's all over the vamp. community that Sookie is a telepath, they would pretty much assume, that her kids would be the same way...
I know people can marry their best friends, but I don't think as Sookie and Sam as a good couple. I hate that they ended up together in the end... As I've stated in other debates before, I think the best ending would have been for Sookie to end up dead, or to have an completely open ending, where it would be up to the individuelle reader to complete the story...
Though my perfect ending would be Sookie ending up dead, since i feel that CH had taken Sookie's lovelife and her heart in so many directions throughout the books, that Sookie couldn't end up with a character we knew beforehand, without going back on something she had already stated in a previous book...
Sorry for the long rant, but I hope you'll know what I mean...
Line:I know people can marry their best friends, but I don't think as Sookie and Sam as a good couple. I hate that they ended up together in the end...
I saw Sam as her ultimate love in the first book and had been rooting for him ever since. Why can't anyone else see that? Passionate LOVE has a habit of wearing out in both life and fiction. As to the rest of it, I think she's left herself lots of room for any a short story in the future.
Leslie wrote: "Line:I know people can marry their best friends, but I don't think as Sookie and Sam as a good couple. I hate that they ended up together in the end...
I saw Sam as her ultimate love in the firs..."
I agree with seeing Sam with Sookie from the first book..I don't understand how people missed that. I am glad she didn't end up with either Bill or Eric. When Quinn was introduced into the equation he got my attention..I was sure Sookie would end up with him. Of course that train of thought lead to dissappointment.
This is going to sound odd but I think that True Blood killed the books. Multiple sources have said that she wanted to end the series a few books ago but that her publishers were pushing her for more since True Blood was so popular. They also pressured her into having Sookie end up with Eric since he seems to the be the favorite on True Blood. I think that Charlaine Harris became disenchanted with her characters and started to half ass her stories. That being said I enjoyed this book. It wasn't as good as the first books in the series but it went pretty much the way I expected it to go. I knew that Sookie and Sam would eventually get together and I wouldn't be surprised if he was HEA.
That is a horrible situation to put an author in. As a writer, I cannot even imagine trying to squeeze out a book when I know the series is over.
I wrote a review on this just recently. I've been laid up after a tonsillectomy and needed "light" reading, so I read the last three in a few days.I don't have the link ATM but if you like, go read it. At the bottom I put a little observation about Sookie's romantic choices. Yes, it's a broad view, but I think it sums it up pretty well.
Yes, I do agree that her writing changed quite a bit. I address that too ;)
I've ordered the first book from one of her other series... I'll decide from it, if I'd like to read any more of her books.
She's the author though. Just like Neil Gaiman said when writing in response to so many readers' complaints about GRR Martin's extreme slowness in writing HIS "how the world is in MY books" series... (yes, I'm one of those who think he's really milking it)... Anyway, Neil says "he's NOT YOUR BITCH" Well, he's not. But I do get to vote with my non-dollar ;) And there are a LOT of people disgusted by now.
I also have a friend who stood in a line for FOUR hours to get a book signed for me, as a gift, and when he tried to say just one thing to the author, he was SO rude, my friend wanted to slap him hard! HE won't buy another book nor watch the show.
So, it's up to her to write what she wants... I'm all for that. And you can't please everyone, nope. But you don't have to buy either.
There have been plenty of authors I won't buy from anymore. I've read too much crap on their own blogs. I don't have to hear what someone else said ;)
BTW, I'm with someone I wouldn't have dated, when I was 25... He's blonde, way too young... And he was a very good friend. Sometimes you wake up and realize that LOVE may be different fom Unbridled Passion, it may be deeper... And sitting right in front of you. So don't discount the friend angle too easily :D
And I agree that the tv series really screwed the book series too. :)
gertt wrote: "Ms Harris hasn't had a good plot since Book 9, Dead and Gone, so I wasn't surprised that the conclusion was lame. Ms Harris should have skipped the fairy element and ended the series a long time..."
Agreed. The main issue to me is it's obvious she disliked writing the later books. All the characters became one dimensional mimics of their former selves. She is a short series writer with her other works, but I think she agreed to contract out more books because these were so popular, and that didn't end up being the best idea for the quality.
I have read all of Charlaine's series and they all had awkward endings. I enjoyed the Lily Bard and Aurora Teagarden mysteries which had no supernatural aspect to them. The Harper Connelly had a unique twist in her supernatural powers. But the endings all left me cold,in my opinion Ms. Harris just doesn't know how to craft a good story arc and ending. Sookie went from being funny and clever to dreary and depressing. I quit buying them after the 8th one but kept reading in hopes she would do better. No such luck. I am sad that she looks down on her readers but want to bet she expects them to buy her newest series? I can use the library just fine.
The author discusses her feelings about the series ending a bit here on BBC radio.I don't like that she was threatened.
She had lost the joy in writing the last few books. What an awful situation for her, paid gig or not.
I didn't enjoy the ending all that much and am liking it less the longer i think about it.
Enslavement, even in a gilded cage for two hundred years because your maker said so, does not sit well.
Interview with Charlaine Harris starts after the 19.00 minute mark approximately.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b038c0fg
CH can write what she wants but I don't have to buy it. And I have the right to express myself when I feel an author loses the voice of her main character. I don't care who Sook ended up with or where I thought this series of books should go - guessing and hoping for the turn to go my way is half the fun. My beef with this last book in particular and the three before that is based on the quality of the writing deteriorating. The fun went out of it all and the books became a tangle of who's who and who they were doing what to at any given moment. For goodness sake, if you can't write at the same level then stop. The editor should have cut CH off and sent her home. I thought the reason the series went on past when the juice ran out was because it was so lucrative to all involved and not because the spark was still there or because CH had something interesting to share with us. I feel like she just wanted to pick my pocket.
Omega wrote: "CH can write what she wants but I don't have to buy it. And I have the right to express myself when I feel an author loses the voice of her main character. I don't care who Sook ended up with or wh..."Omega the publishing company pushed CH to write more books because of the popularity of the tv series. So it wasn't her wanting to pick your pocket it was them. This is the perfect example of how a tv show or movie can kill a book series. Actually True Blood is the reason why I inwardly groan every time they turn one of my favorite books into a movie or tv show.
How long between meeting Sookie (who I named my cat after!) and her ending up with Sam? I'm not talking when the books were published :)
Cindi wrote: "How long between meeting Sookie (who I named my cat after!) and her ending up with Sam? I'm not talking when the books were published :)"I think that the time period of the books are about two or three years.
Leslie wrote: "Omega wrote: "CH can write what she wants but I don't have to buy it. And I have the right to express myself when I feel an author loses the voice of her main character. I don't care who Sook ended..."I think she had worked with Sam for 3 years before the book started so they knew each other for 5 years(roughly)before they actually got together.
So when I felt that Sook had been around for the length of the series (9 yrs.?), she really only messed around with her new supernat friends for 3+/- yrs. That makes it easier for me to see how she decided to date her close friend, Sam. I'm still not happy with the quality of the last 4 books and I felt Ms. Harris gave Sookie's relationship with Sam a quick build-up at the end of the book, but it makes it easier to deal with ....
The last 4 books in this series were a horrible attempt by the author to carry on a series that she had no desire to do so. After the TV show TrueBlood started, her books lacked a lot and started to read much like a movie script. I am very disappointed in this author as to how she has treated this series and fans of this series. I will never ever spend another dime on any of her works, and I know a lot of other people who feel the same way.. This series make her famous, before she was just another wanna be big time author. Well she got it with this series, and now she has the audacity to mouth off and talk bad about the very people that turned her into a super star... Not the type of person I want to follow anymore!
gertt wrote: "Lena wrote: "(On a separate note, how could she say she does not like vampires or ppl who read about them after so many of us have followed her through this whole series? YIKES!) ..."Has Ms Harri..."
I met her and she had stated she quite enjoyed writing the series. And it was a exciting time for her. At the time she stated there would only be four more books left, because she felt that the story was ready to come to an end. Why drag it out and put out bad books when you can end it on a good note. She has other stories to write. I am excited to read her new series she is working on. I really feel she will surprise those who doubt her. She was very friendly and caring towars her fans.
Haven't heard of a new series... You have a link or something for it?
gertt wrote: "I personally feel the last 4 books lacked the fun and adventure that there was in the beginning, and were hardly worth reading,..."Couldn't agree more! What happened to the series? I believe that the HBO Series, and the expectations that derived from that, effected the books greatly. It was like Harris was determined to make the books as separate from the series as possible.
Plus what happened to Eric Northman!! He was a strong powerful character and she (both Harris and Sookie) just whittled him down to nothing. Pathetic treatment of a valued character.
gertt wrote: "Ms Harris's new series, a trilogy, will be out in January...Cemetery Girl."Okay, thanks... I'll check it out...
I admit that I'm surprised at the reaction to Eric's actions in the last 2 books. I thought it was completely in chararcter for him. If you really think back to his actions throughout the series, he is for the most part, pretty selfish. Did he love Sookie? Sure, as much as he was able to. In the long run would he have been a good life partner for Sookie? Not at all, IMO.
Leslie wrote: "I admit that I'm surprised at the reaction to Eric's actions in the last 2 books. I thought it was completely in chararcter for him. If you really think back to his actions throughout the series, h..."I agree... I never believed that Eric and Sookie would or should end up together...
I was really pleased, that he wne't of with Freyda in the end; for me, that's what he would have done, if he was a real person, and not just a figment of CH's imagination...
I believe she should have stuck with the original ten. A writer can do only so much in a world that they have created. I think if she kept to the ten, the writing would have been better and she wouldn't have felt the pressure to crank out the extra books.
Lena wrote: "That is a horrible situation to put an author in. As a writer, I cannot even imagine trying to squeeze out a book when I know the series is over."I agree. It just wouldn't feel right to me.
The ending was not a good one for me.......how disappointing after years of reading this series.....however, had the TV series stuck to the books, maybe True Blood would be a better series...Bottom line on this book is........BOOOOOOOOOOO!
Izzy wrote: I never saw Sam as a love interest because Sookie herself never considered him as a love interest. In every single book, she always considered him as a friend and nothing more. She even said at one point that the thought of a physical relationship with him made her a bit ill."This is what bothered me too. I'm just not buying into them having hot sex all of a sudden. I guess they had a bit of "are we friends or what?" in the beginning of the series, but then for 11 books they've certainly just been friends. No chemistry whatsoever between them.
And now they are like "hey, it didn't work with the supes, why don't we give it a try?". Which in my mind is still more like friends-with-benefits. But Sam is supposed to be in love (??) and Sookie suddenly doesn't feel for Eric anymore. All this because of the cluviel dor.
For my part, I don't mind whom Harris thinks is best for Sookie, or if she'll ever end up with anyone at all. As a reader I just want the author to write it so that it's credible. Somehow justified. That I can see a clear plotline, where things don't just appear all of a sudden.
I might have wanted Sookie to be with Eric, but at the same time can also see how it wouldn't have worked. But it's impossible to write a triangle drama, when there's no chemistry between some characters, and one with which there is chemistry doesn't really even appear in the story. Just about two scenes, for about 5 minutes each.
Sookie ending with Bill would have been better justified, because they were in love before, and there was the chemistry between them. Or even Alcide. Quinn in my mind was always just a random character, not such an essential part of the story.
For me the later books the last two in particular seemed out of place with the rest of the series.I loved the funny bits in them and the sexy bits too, not an abundance of either and the writing style seemed different too.
But what I am not happy about is the marketing and promotion side of these books
Last year I bought the first ten books in this set for £4.99 inc P&P , why so cheap ?
because they had changed the book covers.My covers have this design each in different
colours
Now each book has a photograph of a character from the TV series.
Anyone new to these books may be under the impression that these books are based exactly
on the TV series True Blood and as we all know, that while in the beginning they are
similar they differ greatly later on. Me I like a bargain so I prefer to save money
than bother about the book cover.But I do feel they have flogged this series to death
and this is the biggest load of money making rubbish going, talk about
bleeding the fans dry, well shame on you Charlaine
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I'm just so disappointed, I can barely finish reading after dead, she just destroyed EVERYTHING!!I hope to god she doesn't continue with Sookie, she has to start something new with a good plot. This plot is over, finite, done, klar, färdig.... Give up!!!!!!
Lee wrote: "For me the later books the last two in particular seemed out of place with the rest of the series.I loved the funny bits in them and the sexy bits too, not an abundance of either and the writing ..."
I do like how Charlaine Harris calls 'After Dead' a "gift" to all of her supportive fans. Her supportive readers use this term also.
But gifts are free. How is After Dead a gift when it has such an enormous price tag attached to it?
Nicolina wrote: "I'm just so disappointed, I can barely finish reading after dead, she just destroyed EVERYTHING!!I hope to god she doesn't continue with Sookie, she has to start something new with a good plot. T..."
Hey, Nicolina
She is starting a new series. It's a trilogy and the first one is called 'Midnight Crossroad'. It doesn't appeal to me because it's not urban fantasy it's not about vampires but it may interest you. It's fantasy-ish in that there's definitely something supernatural about most of the residents in town.
Read up on it to see if it interests you.
gertt wrote: "But you see, Sookie turned off her feelings for Eric just like she turned off her feelings for Bill and Quinn...because she really wasn't 'in love' with any of them, she just loved the thrill of be..."Yes, I suppose this is how it is. I just never got it.:p Harris can't have a control over how people interpret her storyline. Neither has any other author. But I think if she wanted to make a point, she ought to have written it in a more clear way. After all, she's doing a whole lot of explaining in her writing. Not the best way of working with a story, but then again I never have taken her for a great writer. (Many way better ones in the world, though it doesn't mean I wouldn't enjoy her stories.:) )
I guess part of the issue for me is Harris' way of writing "chiclit" style, and not offering much depth. Not really that much for the reader to think about. Everything is open in the text. Then in the end it's all about Sookie seeking adventure, and not love. Though I as a reader was always thinking it's about love. Especially when she seems to be taking so much from Anne Rice.
Or perhaps it's just a misinterpretation due to a very different background? Meaning we all grow up reading different kinds of stories, etc.
And yes, there's the convention of heroine having to choose between a "good guy" and a "bad guy". Such as in Bridget Jones and many other stories. Usually the heroine is attracted to the bad guy, but chooses the good guy in the end. So it's this same pattern here. Though I always thought Bill was the good guy compared to Eric, and that perhaps Harris was intentionally trying to break the convention?
As a sidenote, I've read one of the Aurora Teagarden mysteries, and didn't like it much. I'm all for detective stories and thrillers, but like said, there are a better writers in the world.
Lee wrote: "For me the later books the last two in particular seemed out of place with the rest of the series.I loved the funny bits in them and the sexy bits too, not an abundance of either and the writing ..."
I was just getting into the books when True Blood came out and they started changing the covers, Dead Until Dark had a woman with blood coming out of her mouth WTH? I hurried up and bought the set with the old covers (up to book 7 I think) I refused to give them any more of my money because I loved the funny quirky humor of the books and the covers were part of it. True Blood was the end of the Sookie series I believe for all the reasons stated in this thread. Dead and Gone ruined it for me and I wouldn't buy any of her books after that yet I kept reading hoping it would get better...then the mishmash of all the villains out to get Sookie and the ending...yuck.
Can't feel sorry for her, they made me write more than I wanted to..boo hoo. Show some integrity and do right by your readers but I guess she sold out a long time ago.
The original illustrated covers are the best ones simply bcs they were clues to as what was coming in that books plot.
I'm probably the only one out there but I really liked Quinn. And I do agree with the post above mine that the book covers associating the tv show and the books are misleading. There are only a few similarities.
I liked Quinn!! If she couldn't end up with Eric it should have been Quinn.
Sam suck!!
So happy someone else likes Quinn. He never even did anything really bad to her like a lot of the guys. And Sam is too boring.
gertt wrote: "The original covers were good because they went with the story. True Blood ruined the book series because Ms Harris was unable to separate the book storyline from the HBO storyline.I always thought the original covers were so eye catching and the art work made them stand out sadly by the time I started reading them from our local library the covers had been changed.
Nicolina wrote: "I liked Quinn!! If she couldn't end up with Eric it should have been Quinn.
Sam suck!!"
I liked Quinn too and never thought he was any kind of bad guy,just caught up in
a bad family situation that Sookie seemed to not be very sympathetic towards him.
I thought their moments together were really good
No way would you pick Sam over him
I was also disappointed he never appeared in the TV series
Quinn was supposedly a genuin family man who was devoted to Sookie, but then C ruined it. Also the way she ended their relationship was a bit dissatisfying considering when he first "came" to us he was on the road to becoming a well thought and developed carachter, then in FDTW & DAG the carachter sort of simmerd out and his "plot" seemed to be disgarded by C like dirty socks, I did not fancy that "ending".
Most of the fans here suggested not to read past book nine and after reading the book synopsis after #9 I agree with them. In my humble opinion, and this may anger some/most, I really thought she should have ended up with Eric. I felt a bit cheated to see how the series ended. I admit, I really wanted her to end up with Sam, but after the third book I just didn't feel a romantic relationship is what they needed.
What I really wanted for Sookie and Sam was to have a strong friendship. The kind that lasts forever. Sookie's brother wasn't the best brother. She didn't have much family. She was doing good in the relationship department, but she didn't have any one good best friend and I thought Sam could be that for her.
Anyway, that's the way I see it. What it feels like to me is that Sookie was supposed to end up with Eric, but since so many other supernatural series has the heroine end up with the vampire while the Stackhouse series was still ongoing, Harris decided to buck the system.
@ghrett That's a good point. I can see it being the easier choice. Do you think she anticipated such a strong reaction? That's another thing I think about.
I think she obbsessed over the sex and romance in the last books, it wasn't a "Sookie stackhouse adventure" any longer, now it had become a "Sookies sex escapades" novell wich drew the story away from thrilling murderes etcI also feel that she made a bad move by killing the Queen and thus introducing a new regime wich then faulted Eric and Sookies relationship and also, in my eyes, made for and poorly written storyline.
This made the storyline more agggressivly political as it is in the tv-series. And wich it wasn't in Sookies small town murderes. The storyline became national instead of local. In a sense she sucked the life out of Sookie, and by that, sucked the life out of the books.
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Why leave your vampire characters in limbo (Bill will still be watching Sookie's house, unhappy) or destroy your characters completely?
Now, after Dead Ever After had been released, I only found out that Charlaine Harris dislikes vampires. She thinks individuals who avidly read and watch series about vampires as rather sad. She says that those who couldn't see the ending or were disappointed in the ending, wasn't reading what she was writing.
She actually said all of this. No never mind that in the books, she showed us that vampires can love and can be compassionate. It's only now that this series has finished that she's showing her true colours.
I'm sorry but the woman is being rude to the people who read and bought her books. Why is she insulting the people who made her successful? I'm following plenty of authors who actually love writing their genre and they love the type of people who read their books. I'll stick with them, thanks.
But I just don't understand. Why write a vampire series that would appeal to those who love vampires and then create these wonderful vampire characters if you hate the genre you're writing in?
Harris said that the only character we should have cared about was Sookie because she was the heroine. What?? How does that even make sense? Sookie was just as bloodthirsty and evil as the vampires. The only difference is that the vampires knew what they were and they didn't care for putting up a front. Sookie, the lady who murdered, seemed to like putting the blame onto other people. (For example, Victor Madden. She organised the whole plan for cripes sake! That's not killing in self defence, that's plain murder!) She was a mess of a character!
One of the ways a heroine can grow is by interacting with other characters, and yet we're only supposed to care for Sookie? What planet is she living on?
If you're going to write a paranormal series then make sure that you follow the rules in that genre. To me, the series read like a paranormal romance. Not for one second did I think of them as "mystery".
My most important wish for this series was for Sookie to learn to accept her telepathy. I wanted her to see it as a gift. But she doesn't.
This woman and series really frustrate me beyond belief. Since it was a vampire series, I thought that vampires had a big role in the books. Apparently not. Apparently, they should be sold as sex slaves, separated from their maker and deserve to be forever alone.
I just can't believe I wasted my time with this series. How could it go from being so good to so bad? I wouldn't have minded if Sookie didn't end up with a vampire but with the way the books went, I thought Harris was leading us there.
If Harris wanted people to see Sam as a love interest then perhaps she should have written him a bigger role in the books. Instead of making Sookie always refer to him as "just a friend" and that "he could never be more than a friend", make Sookie have a proper crush on him. Make their relationship believable and so when it comes to the time that they're jumping into each other's beds, the readers don't think it comes across as incestuous.
I am a bit disappointed how it ended. Having Sookie living her boring life in that boring town, twiddling her thumbs for the rest of her life. Yeah, how exciting.
Again, that's not an ending fitting of the fantasy genre. Sure, many heroines settle down and live in a nice place but they never turn their back on who they are and what they are. They're still up for an adventure. Had I known how Sookie would end her adventure, I wouldn't have even bothered with this series.
Apologies for the rant.