Perhaps it might be more apt to say the potential for their characterization stuck in my head. But I do think she had good bones. I think she had such good bones, in fact that it took several books for me (and others) to realize she never built on them.
JC as master manipulator and as a male using his sex appeal.
Richard as the small town boy mentality, with a school teacher's idealism and suddenly a position of power and demand. At first it seems natural to me that he could handle things and then you saw cracks. And I thought those cracks in his personality would be like fissures that when healed make the bone stronger - but not so much.
Edward as a true monster but legal and safe because he walks in human skin. Matter of fact about who is and what he is and always stating things clearly. And maybe it was only in my head that he seemed to peer and poke and prod at Anita to see if she really had humanity, believed in humanity, held on to her humanity of if it was all some act that purposely slowed her down.
Jason as a legitimate look at what it could mean to live in a world of abuses that had supernatural stuff on top of it. His whole scene with the vampires who could rot just felt like emotional nightmare turned reality turned insanity.
And in the beginning I liked Anita. I say over and over again that for me, Anita's arc ended at OB butterfly when she had a chance to start all over again in a new town, with a new guy but she realized she had to let go of her fears and prejudices and deal with what she had back home. Maybe it wasn't an arch showing the growth from one step to another. But for me it was an arch of a character realizing she needed to grow.
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JC as master manipulator and as a male using his sex appeal.
Richard as the small town boy mentality, with a school teacher's idealism and suddenly a position of power and demand. At first it seems natural to me that he could handle things and then you saw cracks. And I thought those cracks in his personality would be like fissures that when healed make the bone stronger - but not so much.
Edward as a true monster but legal and safe because he walks in human skin. Matter of fact about who is and what he is and always stating things clearly. And maybe it was only in my head that he seemed to peer and poke and prod at Anita to see if she really had humanity, believed in humanity, held on to her humanity of if it was all some act that purposely slowed her down.
Jason as a legitimate look at what it could mean to live in a world of abuses that had supernatural stuff on top of it. His whole scene with the vampires who could rot just felt like emotional nightmare turned reality turned insanity.
And in the beginning I liked Anita. I say over and over again that for me, Anita's arc ended at OB butterfly when she had a chance to start all over again in a new town, with a new guy but she realized she had to let go of her fears and prejudices and deal with what she had back home. Maybe it wasn't an arch showing the growth from one step to another. But for me it was an arch of a character realizing she needed to grow.
And then.....
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