Dead to the World

Oh, I can't believe it has been so long since I actually finished a book! How sad this is! Well, Charlaine has been getting on my nerves. Her skills as an author are still lacking. I am glad she can tell a story, because she can't write. There was one line in this book that made me want to close it and just stop reading altogether. I believe it was "Yikes. Yahoo. Yum." I was offended. What adult would use language like that, especially when Sookie has been learning a word a day for the past however long? Oh, well!

I did like the book as a whole, though. I thought it was light and funny and it let me fall in love with Eric a little, even though I have been resisting from the beginning. (Alcide is still my pick.) The book was interesting and I hope it is a bit of a forecast for the season to come on HBO.

I don't want to give away what happens, but there is a mystery, a fight, and a strange resolution. The worst part for me is that as soon as I start to love Eric, I am left without that love. I hate that there is even the possibility that Sookie with return to Bill, who I don't love. I am also slightly concerned with Sookie's apparent loss of shame and ability to sleep with and want to sleep with so many men who are all in the same circle. It seems a bit incestuous. (I wasn't joking for those of you who have read the book... It just popped out.)

I will start the next novel soon, simply because I feel that I am already 4 books in and I have to keep going, but I am starting to think that I am not a fan of this type of literature, or maybe just of this author. Ms. Harris writes novels that seem cheap, and I really don't like that.