Monday Pulse Pause Moment

I’m afraid I’ve been bitten by a series.  In this case I’m far behind the popularity rush.  I’ve only recently picked up the Sookie Stackhouse books by Charlaine Harris.  As usual, I’m shy of jumping on popular band wagons, just because everyone’s telling me I must.  HBO picking up the series and turning it into True Blood further fed my resistence.

But I relented because I heard that the books and the TV series were very nearly exactly alike, and that romance fans and serious science fiction fans both liked it.  That made me sit up and pay attention.  When science fiction fans were giving a series that emerges from the romance industry the nod of approval, you know you’ve got a good thing on your hands.

So I bought the first book, Dead Until Dark, and eased into it.  And was relieved, and utterly delighted to find Ms. Harris had vampires who had trouble dealing with modern day adaptation because they had been around for more than twenty eight years.  Oh my….  After my little rant about vampire adaptation to modern living I felt like I’d met a kindred spirit, and eagerly sank into the rest of the book.

I just finished book five, and had a pulse pause moment worth sharing.  Only, it contains spoilers, so if you haven’t read the series, or book five, Dead as a Doornail, look away.

Really.  I mean it.  This is a major spoiler that you really want to work up to through the books and the series.  It’s worth it.

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There is a main suspense plot in Dead as a Doornail, but as a long term romance junkie, I was only marginally interested in the outcome of that plot, because Sookie ended up in bed with Eric Northman (a.k.a Eric the viking), played by  in the HBO series (yet to see it!) who had lost his memories, and therefore most of his irritating personality, and had become a more interesting and vulnerable version of Eric, one that she fell in love with over the course of three days.  The Pulse Pause moment?  He all-but fell in love with her.  His personality shift, thanks to a witch-bitch spell, reverted him back to a more courtly century or five ago, and he wanted tuck Sookie inside his castle with him forever.

Of course she knew the fairytale was going to end as soon as the spell was broken but let him believe he could have his wish as long as they were in bed together.

It wasn’t quite the sexy pause-your-pulse moment that I had intended for these Monday moments.  But it’s worth a salute because what Sookie did was incredibly gutsy.

And fifty pages later, when the spell was broken, he didn’t remember a damn thing.  It broke her heart.  And mine.

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