The funny thing is, my first reaction to Sookie was "OMG, what a Mary Sue!" Because she lets you know, right off, on the first page, how good-looking she is. And then her first concern, when she's finally going to meet a powerful supernatural creature, is whether her lipstick is in good shape. I damn near threw the book across the Metro car. So help me, if that's not effing shallow, I don't know what is.
Sorry.
The scene where she goes after the Rats with a tire chain somewhat redeemed her for me. As I said, I'm willing to give the entire book a chance. But those first few paragraphs really exasperated me. Look, you saw my wedding album and all my pretties, you know I like to dress up and look nice. But when an author thinks that that's one of the first things you need to know about a character, and the character herself is that conscious of it - that's just so not me.
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The funny thing is, my first reaction to Sookie was "OMG, what a Mary Sue!" Because she lets you know, right off, on the first page, how good-looking she is. And then her first concern, when she's finally going to meet a powerful supernatural creature, is whether her lipstick is in good shape. I damn near threw the book across the Metro car. So help me, if that's not effing shallow, I don't know what is.
Sorry.
The scene where she goes after the Rats with a tire chain somewhat redeemed her for me. As I said, I'm willing to give the entire book a chance. But those first few paragraphs really exasperated me. Look, you saw my wedding album and all my pretties, you know I like to dress up and look nice. But when an author thinks that that's one of the first things you need to know about a character, and the character herself is that conscious of it - that's just so not me.