Check out "The Blue Sword" and "The Hero and the Crown". They sorta go together. You'll find a lot of her stuff in YA lit for some reason. She is seriously an amazing writer. She, like, paints pictures with words. I guess she's really hardcore about the writing process/craft. My aunt's met her.
I feel like the author isn't smart enough to write Sookie smart. If that makes sense? Like she wants her to be a down-home spunky Southern girl who is smart and sassy and she just comes off as a sort of flaky idiot. That being said, I did like the book where Eric(k) lost his memory. V. enjoyable.
I agree that's a problem in most vampire books. Laurell K. Hamilton does some weird sort of THEY ARE COUNTER CULTURE. EVERYONE FEARS THEM LIKE THEY FEAR TEH GAY/BDSM/FREAKY IN BED PPLZ. But I think she just likes to write wildly anatomically impossible sex scenes.
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Date: 2008-02-05 07:03 am (UTC)I feel like the author isn't smart enough to write Sookie smart. If that makes sense? Like she wants her to be a down-home spunky Southern girl who is smart and sassy and she just comes off as a sort of flaky idiot. That being said, I did like the book where Eric(k) lost his memory. V. enjoyable.
I agree that's a problem in most vampire books. Laurell K. Hamilton does some weird sort of THEY ARE COUNTER CULTURE. EVERYONE FEARS THEM LIKE THEY FEAR TEH GAY/BDSM/FREAKY IN BED PPLZ. But I think she just likes to write wildly anatomically impossible sex scenes.