You’ll probably suffocate waiting for me to get around to it.
When I was in ninth grade, my mom got me a t-shirt for my birthday that said “National Sarcasm Society: Like we need your support.” It’s still my favorite shirt, and still ever so very true. I could finish so many projects that I start if only I wasn’t such a procrastinator. Oh, well. I’ll stop procrastinating tomorrow.
Okay, here it is. The long awaited Southern Vampire Series review. Charlaine Harris has built a six-book-and-counting series that could easily be made into a twelve or even an eighteen book series because of all the intricate plots in each of her books. Ordinarily, these kinds of books would get on my nerves. If the author isn’t really skilled in plot developement, this can become very confusing. Fortunately for me, and all of her other fans, Charlaine Harris is a master at weaving plots together.
While it is sometimes hard to remember which sub-plot is in which book, this isn’t enough to make me stop reading the books. It actually gives me a reason to read more of them to find the one I want to read. Any excuse to read, that’s my motto. One of my motto’s anyway.
Seriously though, the best reason to read these books is the main character: Sookie Stacckhouse. Sookie’s a telepathic barmaid working for a shifter and sometimes dating Vampires. She’s tough, resourceful, and hilarious to follow. She has a cast of supporting characters that I like as well, from her actual fairy godmother kept hopping by her antics to the area’s overly dramatic head vampire (silly ex-vikings).
Another of Charlaine Harris’ strength’s lie in creating tension. She can build storyline tension, but also the harder-to-pull-off tension that can build between characters. Janet Evanovich is very good at building character tension as well.
