Warning: Spoiler Alert.
Attention all fans. I have finally figured out what was bothering me about this series, and it was so obvious that I should probably slap myself in the forehead and mutter something about my lack of intelligence recently. I'm not a published author, as I have previously stated, but I believe as a writer, and an avid reader, my opinion is valid.
This series constantly jumps between past and present tense, and that frustrates me more than most other foibles. Yes, sometimes words like 'this' and 'now' can be used in the context of the past tense, but not too much, and not in the same sentence. Here's an example:
"Eric had gotten me situated on the bed, which was so high, I might need a stepstool to get down." (Club Dead, page 169) The issue here is that most of the sentence is in past tense, until it gets to "might need" instead of "might have needed". A small distinction, yes, but when it's on every page, in almost every sentence, it's a bit too noticeable.
Now to the book. It's quite apparent that the author got bored of monogamy quickly. Sookie has kissed basically every good-looking guy she knows (vampire, shape-shifter, werewolf, human), or at the very least, had impure thoughts about them, and considered acting on them. The first few books have only taken place within a year or so, by the way. So Bill will become the bad guy, like he basically was in this book, and plenty of other options will become available to Sookie (like Alcide and Eric). I understand that it's exciting to go for the unfamiliar, and Eric's raw sexual appeal is definitely a bonus in this situation, but come on, she got bored with Bill by book 2, so he didn't really get a chance to be anything other than someone who used Sookie, and tried to leave her for someone else. What can I say, I just wanted Bill to be the one for her, but clearly the author doesn't.
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