Dead Until Dark
Author: Charlaine Harris
Read: 2/3/2019
Pages: 340
Rating: 3/5
Format: ebook
Response:
"Criminal trash like the Rats roamed the highways and trailer parks of America, not smart enough or moral enough to settle down to productive living. They never made a positive mark on the world, or amounted to a hill of beans, to my way of thinking."
There were parts of this book, like that quote, that I loved and made me laugh. And others that made me snort from how dumb it was. It was a decent book and I'll be continuing the series as it kept me entertained and it was a quick read. This was a fiction book, so it worked for one of the February bingo prompts, even if it didn't get me a bingo in the end.
The main issue I had was Bubba. I didn't mind that he was (spoiler?) …. Elvis, what I minded was the execution of it. Bubba was turned by fan who worked in autopsy that brought him back. But it turned out it was a mistake because of all the drugs he had taken, which messed him up a bit. Because of this, and the fact that he's such a well known person, the vampires pass him around amongst themselves giving him jobs to do. One of the jobs is protecting Sookie. I didn't mind that he was basically her bodyguard, what I minded was that instead of saying that Bubba was Elvis, they made references that you probably only understood if you were a fan of his, or born in that generation. So for a millennial, it was a giant what the actual hell is going on. It took a google search to figure it out, and I shouldn't have to google a book unless I want spoilers.
This is where I found the information about Bubba.
"Criminal trash like the Rats roamed the highways and trailer parks of America, not smart enough or moral enough to settle down to productive living. They never made a positive mark on the world, or amounted to a hill of beans, to my way of thinking."
There were parts of this book, like that quote, that I loved and made me laugh. And others that made me snort from how dumb it was. It was a decent book and I'll be continuing the series as it kept me entertained and it was a quick read. This was a fiction book, so it worked for one of the February bingo prompts, even if it didn't get me a bingo in the end.
The main issue I had was Bubba. I didn't mind that he was (spoiler?) …. Elvis, what I minded was the execution of it. Bubba was turned by fan who worked in autopsy that brought him back. But it turned out it was a mistake because of all the drugs he had taken, which messed him up a bit. Because of this, and the fact that he's such a well known person, the vampires pass him around amongst themselves giving him jobs to do. One of the jobs is protecting Sookie. I didn't mind that he was basically her bodyguard, what I minded was that instead of saying that Bubba was Elvis, they made references that you probably only understood if you were a fan of his, or born in that generation. So for a millennial, it was a giant what the actual hell is going on. It took a google search to figure it out, and I shouldn't have to google a book unless I want spoilers.
This is where I found the information about Bubba.
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