well behaved women

I liked Sookie Stackhouse. I loved her character, I loved her world, I loved her narrative. I ate up the books with delight.

( but I'm not going to be able to read them anymore. (spoilers for what happens to Bill, but only if you haven't gotten past the third book) )

To summarize, because man that became long:
- Harris gave us good solid female cast members and then systematically went, 'tee-hee! don't be silly, female friendships don't really exist!'
- she wrote Sookie evaluating her relationships by how useful other people were to her and then ignoring what they'd done for her so she could get on a high horse, and finally
- she treated the issue of rape with appalling casualty.