I stopped on the first page of the first Sookie Stackhouse novel. The overdone tropes.
- So beautiful woman with tight t-shirt and large breasts.
- Feels bad because she can read minds.
- Obvious future romantic interest in mysterious man who she can’t read his mind.
I think there were a couple more. Just on the first page.
When my book discussion group talked about the book, they said she’d talked about starting as a romance novelist and saw that there was a demand science fiction/fantasy/horror. So, she swapped to writing this crap. Just so formulaic.
Where are the petitions to get librarians to ignore the anti-book petitions? I just want my kid to be able to read as much as possible. And, myself.