i'm only 7 books away from getting through everything i read last year!

[furyofvissarion]

Deadlocked - Charlaine Harris. I still appreciate Sookie Stackhouse's pragmatic nature, & that Harris keeps class issues in the foreground; I still cringe whenever Harris writes about POCs. & despite that, I still manage to read around enough to enjoy this series. This one was pretty creepy -- writing this up a couple months later, I can't actually remember that much about it, but I enjoyed being back in Sookie's world.

Dead Ever After - Charlaine Harris. I made it to the last Sookie book! (Though I think I missed one along the way?) The issue of whoever (of her various & numerous supernatural suitors) Sookie was going to end up w/ (because you know she would end up w/someone) was resolved hugely satisfactorily to me.

Chime - Franny Billingsley. Briony is growing up in the rural Swampsea w/a secret: she's a witch & she's used her powers to harm her sister & stepmother. Devastating in its depiction of a young woman who thinks that she's inherently bad, she's just fucked up & harmful to those around her.

The Summer I Turned Pretty - Jenny Han. There were moments I liked in this book about how Belly (a childhood nickname for Isabel) spends the summer in a beach house with her mom & brother, her mom's best friend, and the latter's two sons. Least interesting to me were Belly's changing relationships with the two boys that she's spent every summer with for years; a pity, as that took up a lot of the book.

Comments

[bibliofile]

I think I read the first three Sookie books and then got distracted by other books plus the TV series. Meanwhile, I know they're there if I ever need to inhale something like that. Have you read Harris's new series? In semi-rural Illinois.

Chime sounds interesting, well written, and something I really don't want to read. Ah well.

[furyofvissarion]

I haven't read Harris' new series, no! Didn't realize there was one -- have read some of her previous stuff. Thanks for the heads-up!!