Sookie Update

(POTENTIAL SPOILER ALERT)

I wanted to discuss where I am on the Sookie Stackhouse novels because it has been a while since I have done so...and well, I like talking about things that I am enthralled in.

I am on book #4, which I started 2 days ago and I am already halfway done. You might be asking yourself, "what keeps ones interest in these books?" I have to say that there are several things. I for one, love to live vicariously through fictional characters so I am enjoying my own personal involvement with this plot. Oh gosh, that makes me sound like such a dork. I can live with that, considering my real life is not very competitive with my fictional life. Until that day comes...

It's the suspense--these are mysteries. There are times you feel on edge because you don't know what's going to happen next or you are simply engaged in your own mental investigation of the outcome. How is Sookie still alive? She has made me feel like I could take on great adversity if I was faced with it...and I haven't drank vamp blood to give me the extra umph. Sookie is a regular girl...yet not so regular to the point of quirky and I think a lot of us women have felt that way at some time. We all feel like we are less than par but we desire to be desired so we can relate to her character. When you feel the kinship with a character you then begin to wish what happens to her will happen to you (not in a real literal sense). Yes, I want to get beat up by a pack of werewolves if it means I get the company of 3 hot men: Eric, Bill, and Alcide.

Now to the romance. She is broken hearted right now. We have all been there...we feel her pain. We are angry at Bill, how could he leave her after telling her he loves her for so long??? Men. I love how he adored her and how protective he was of her. I know that there were reasons for what he did but a part of me still wants them to heal and get back together. If for no other reason--they always have the make up sex to look forward to. Dear Bill, please do what it takes to redeem yourself. Prove that at least one man has the potential to rise above the rest. Thanks.

Alcide is strikingly hot to me and I adore how he randomly kisses her when they know they aren't good for each other right now. Gosh, how I have been in that place before one time too many so I want to scream at her to turn and run because I know the outcome. Another part of me wants them to get past what's keeping them from working towards something (okay so they both have a past relationship on the mind and that's not healthy but still). There will always be that "what if?" They seem perfect for each other--being were is better for her than vamp.

And then there is Eric...oh Eric. Hot and sexy and powerful Eric. I was super creeped out by him at first by now there is something very alluring to me. I don't like that the first time Sookie relinquishes her will to have sex with him is when he isn't himself at all. It's not the real Eric so I don't know how I feel about this. I don't know that I trust him for her to be in a relationship but he is fun...and I like fun so where is the harm in that?

I wonder what the next few chapters of my life look like? I wish I could read ahead and get a little glimse. I want to know if I am making the right decisions or if I am getting myself into a deeper plot. Would I do anything different today if I knew how I would end up? Will romance in a novel always be better than romance in real life? If so, would I even care about having romance in real life when I can live through fictional characters and be just as happy? Inquiring minds want to know.