Winged Rivers

I finally got off of my lazy butt (well, more like sat on it) and read the first chapter of Dead Until Dark, the first of the Southern Vampire novels by Charlene Harris.

It was pretty decent. I loved how the main character's voice made you feel like she was talkin' directly to ya. And how she has improper grammar along with it is awesomesauce. Huge fan of that.

A few nit-picks with it, but hey, nothin's perfect. It just always grates on my nerves that the main character absolutely MUST refer to themselves as moderatly attractive. "I have a great body, beautiful hair, and wonderful cleavage!" Like they're afraid the reader ain't gonna like them unless they're well endowed or have great boobage. Just, ugh. Grates my nerves. And that fat characters are automatically "lumpy", "lazy", "clumsy", or "slow".

Isn't that wondrful? So I'm a lumpy, slow, fat chick who's lazy. WONDERFUL.

Even with those two big nagging pet peeves, Sookie's voice was perfect and she really made me want to find out more. I love how she didn't fall for Bill's sultry voice, telling him immediately to cut it out. *le gasp, non cliche!!* And I just love the universe and how there's that lil' thing that tends to be looked over with vampires; history.

I had actually watched the first something episodes of the series with randomsome1 and that's when it dawned on me that you could ask a vampire how the Civil War was and he'd be able to tell ya, 'cause he was there. When peeps think 'bout vampires, usually it's just all about sexiness and blood sucking.

I imagine that history teachers wouldn't quite like the thought of loosing their job to someone who experienced it. XDXD

But yeah. Def gonna continue reading it.

Also because it's AWESOME and so FULFILLING when an adult asks for the Twighlight books, you ask who's it for, and then when they let you know that they're buying it for themselves refer them to Charlene Harris and watch them walk out with a copy of Dead Until Dark.

Buying a Charlene Harris book from the public: $1.50
Selling the Charlene Harris book for half off: $3.98
Making sure that more people know how much of a twat Stephanie Meyer is: Priceless

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