No Little Arms Here
So I have designs to update more often...and they are all dashed. Life will not leave me alone, and it's all terrible. Mr. Minty got a new job with a night time shift, which means I cook two dinners every night and do more housework. He's off today, so I'm trying to get this post finished before it's back to the grind. However, this downtime has ( Read more... )
Sadly, I think that the reason it's so popular is because of the sex scenes. I can't say that they're all that scintillating, but then I'm not into sex scene type books. I'm more the James Herbert, there will be pages of non-stop killing type if I want something gratuitous. :D
I think Jennifer Armintrout is hilarious, and I'm way more deadpan than her, but still within the angry broad type. I'll give that tumblr a look - I'm sure it's good stuff.
Oh, she's definitely a female Eric type - but I think she's a little more nuanced and careful than Eric, which is good because she's more ambitious than him. She makes Eric look cautious. :D I love the scene between her and Freyda - trying to figure out what Freyda knows and such.
It might not be right, of course. But I think if he's turned and maybe Eric will make a deal to give him a substantial draught of blood, then maybe that'll be enough to satisfy her - along with seeing old doesn't always equal "fit for all purposes". And I'm thinking that if she offers Eric his own Area, she doesn't actually need physical protection, but rather renown to keep the other vampires from her door. Since she can't have a King, she's going for Eric as well known, while T-Rex is another kind of well-known. It'd be hard to disappear a well liked guy like him - which is what I think Freyda's counting on with Eric. And I think with his previous fighting experience, he'll probably be pretty excellent as a vampire. I think most of the warrior vampires were good as soon as they turned - and we see a lot of them turned like Jade Flower - to be assassins.
And I think T-Rex would probably be pretty good at getting the hang of vampire politics - at least as good as Eric, who doesn't seem to give a shit about what people think of him. That's a bad thing, really, when you want to be a force to be reckoned with. I don't think he'll get the same deal (his own Area) so he'll be able to stick to her side and learn the ropes.
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CH sex scenes are not merely that, they are full of relationship clues, which is what I like. But a book full of them gets real old real fast, and frankly as boring as a load of relationship talk ;D
Freyda's youth is definitely in her favour wherein she's bold and seizes opportunities as they come along. And maybe that's why she needs someone much older, not only for physical protection and to keep enemies at bay through his mere reputation, but also to temper her boldness and channel it into a more sustainable direction. She needs to stabilize and secure the kingdom she acquired, and a thousand years old vampire who has seen history come full circle times over is an invaluable asset to acquire, and one she won't give up so easily. So while T-Rex is a viable option, it may not be enough to appease her, especially as she appears to have the upper hand in the situation.
"maybe Eric will make a deal to give him a substantial draught of blood" Can vampires in SVM make other vampires more powerful by giving them blood, as they do with humans? I know that the older the vampire is, the more potent his blood is to humans. Is there a text that says it works on vampires the same way?
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I agree about her. I just think if you look at Eric over the Kym Rowe incident, he's just not seeming to care. He doesn't care if T-Rex likes him, and he's not making friends with people. That affects how your kingdom is going to go. So even though he's a valuable asset in many ways, it doesn't help you if he's grumping and wants everything to stay the same. And for sure - Freyda has the upper hand.
I'm pretty sure that they can. Eric freaks out a little at the idea of sharing blood with other vampires, because they'll have power over him. But most of the effects we see with Sookie seem to carry over into the vampire world. I think it's reasonable to assume that Eric's blood being "awesome" would be the same for someone else as well. And after all, he did reinvigorate Clancy all by himself. Bill said sometimes when vampires are drained it takes 20 years or so to recover. Eric had Clancy up and running in months.
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Even on my first read-through of book 1, I was very skeptical of everything that Bill told Sookie about vampires. At that point it wasn't necessarily that I didn't trust him, but it was clear that he didn't trust her. Most of the information that she got at the beginning of the series about vampires was either warped PR, an outright lie, or heavily laced with lies of omission.
So I remember regarding the 20 years to recover from a draining in top-secret hospice locations scattered around the country as a similar thing... a lie that vampires had told to make the crime seem more grievous in the eyes of the public, and possibly explain why they weren't offering their blood to medical research.
Later, when Bill got silver poisoning, I thought of the 20 years number again, and it seemed more realistic.
Clancy seemed to spring right back into action, albeit with a serious attitude problem. I hadn't remembered that it was Eric who reinvigorated him, since Eric wasn't there when they found him. I wonder if it was taking on Eric's attributes that made him such a d-bag before he died. Was Clancy's behavior supposed to be a look into what Eric would be like if he didn't love Sookie?
-chicpea
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Eric's Area is a bit of a haven - no rape, the Sheriff takes care of you. To the point where other vampires like Felicia move states over to be with him. Eric rarely seems to have anyone leave his Area, or try to buck the system.
And Bill could have had a long lingering death if Sookie didn't stick her bib in - it was her who tracked down Judith. With Felicia's blood, he wasn't recovering all that fast, and Bill can't be the only vampire with a dead maker and siblings who won't come or are dead.
CH said somewhere that it was Eric who gave him blood. I find her site really difficult to search through though, but it could have been in a fan Q&A too. I think the blood exchange made Clancy heavily into Eric, to the point of excluding Sookie - and of course, Eric did shed a tear over his death. I think that Clancy was a douchebag before he died because he didn't like the control he lost, and he didn't care much for humans (and less after he was drained by some).
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Anyway, update soon! Yeah! ;)
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I'm going to try and make more of an effort. :D
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