Charlaine, just why?
I read the final Sookie Stackhouse book today. The books that inspired True Blood. The show that brought me the eye candy of Alexander Skarsgård and Allan Hyde. That inspired my TB fics.
Oh, how I wish I hadn't.
**Spoilers below**
Mainly because of what happened to Eric. He's always been this badass, always protected Sookie, and repeatedly said he loved her. Even though I wasn't that thrilled with how things were going with their relationship in the past two books due to the whole marriage contract his dead Maker set up, I never expected him to go out with such a whimper. I honestly thought he had some trick up his sleeve that would get him out of the marriage deal and he and Sookie could live in peace. But no. He basically gets sold into sexual slavery for two hundred years and will never see Sookie again.
Okay, fine, their options were limited. Sookie wants the normal white picket fence life which she'd never have with Eric. Eric would have to watch her grow old and die. They have a fight where he admits he wanted to just change her against her will and she's understandably pissed. But then he leaves, goes off with the Hot Queen and that's it. No angst on either part, no 'proper' goodbye scene that's worthy of a couple that have been together for five books or so. Just a fight and adios Eric.
And Sookie ends up with Sam. Essentially because he's 'there'. She saved his life in the last book, sure, but that's what best friends do, right? The relationship is just so abrupt! She's repeatedly said that she only sees him as a friend. They went on one date in the first book and he only asked her out then because he was jealous of Bill getting there first. Had there been decent build up, maybe I wouldn't have been so pissed, but if there was build up, it was so subtle that it was non existent.
I noticed on Amazon that there is another official companion book coming out later this year, supposedly explaining what happens to everyone in the books after the end of the series. I hope it offers some insight into the author's crazy changes of character here. Maybe something about Eric only going to really protect Sookie from being killed and hating every minute of it. Or of him killing the Queen and becoming a King himself. That would be the Eric of the earlier books.
It was just so disappointing. You know how well loved books feel like friends? I feel like my friends have betrayed me.
Sigh.
The way TB is heading, I'm not hoping for much on that front either. I'm stubbornly sticking with it, grimly hoping that the good writing of S1/2/3 will return. I'm not holding my breath.
Oh, how I wish I hadn't.
**Spoilers below**
Mainly because of what happened to Eric. He's always been this badass, always protected Sookie, and repeatedly said he loved her. Even though I wasn't that thrilled with how things were going with their relationship in the past two books due to the whole marriage contract his dead Maker set up, I never expected him to go out with such a whimper. I honestly thought he had some trick up his sleeve that would get him out of the marriage deal and he and Sookie could live in peace. But no. He basically gets sold into sexual slavery for two hundred years and will never see Sookie again.
Okay, fine, their options were limited. Sookie wants the normal white picket fence life which she'd never have with Eric. Eric would have to watch her grow old and die. They have a fight where he admits he wanted to just change her against her will and she's understandably pissed. But then he leaves, goes off with the Hot Queen and that's it. No angst on either part, no 'proper' goodbye scene that's worthy of a couple that have been together for five books or so. Just a fight and adios Eric.
And Sookie ends up with Sam. Essentially because he's 'there'. She saved his life in the last book, sure, but that's what best friends do, right? The relationship is just so abrupt! She's repeatedly said that she only sees him as a friend. They went on one date in the first book and he only asked her out then because he was jealous of Bill getting there first. Had there been decent build up, maybe I wouldn't have been so pissed, but if there was build up, it was so subtle that it was non existent.
I noticed on Amazon that there is another official companion book coming out later this year, supposedly explaining what happens to everyone in the books after the end of the series. I hope it offers some insight into the author's crazy changes of character here. Maybe something about Eric only going to really protect Sookie from being killed and hating every minute of it. Or of him killing the Queen and becoming a King himself. That would be the Eric of the earlier books.
It was just so disappointing. You know how well loved books feel like friends? I feel like my friends have betrayed me.
Sigh.
The way TB is heading, I'm not hoping for much on that front either. I'm stubbornly sticking with it, grimly hoping that the good writing of S1/2/3 will return. I'm not holding my breath.