Grave Sight by Charlaine Harris
Started Reading: March 26, 2007
Finished Reading: March 27, 2007
I didn’t really expect to enjoy Grave Sight at first, but now I’m glad to have read this. It’s like adding a supernatural element to reality, very different from the Southern Vampires series wherein the existence of vampires itself makes it far too fictional.
Her characters are very different now, too. We have Harper who had this gift after being struck by lightning, had a horrible childhood, but like Sookie, is treated somewhat like an outcast at times. Her stepbrother, Tolliver, is very dedicated to her and I could feel the strong connection between the two. They are each other’s support; Harper depends on Tolliver very much (a life without Tolliver would be a lifetime for nightmares for Harper) and Tolliver is as protective of her as she is dependent on him.
Personally, I’d like to know more about their childhood than what has been narrated in the book. I want their relationship to progress - it is obvious that they do not feel any sibling-like emotions for each other. They keep it that way, draw the line at that, but I believe that they love each other deeply in a sense that their relationship almost reminds me of Hikaru and Kaoru’s from the anime/manga, Ouran Koukou Host Club. They’re far from being blood-siblings, but they have a thread that ties them together, surrounds them together, and shields them from others as if they have their ‘own world’. It’s like one of them is sure to collaps without the other. An unhealthy and sustaining relationship at the same time.
I love the idea of Harper/Tolliver. They’re not blood-related, so they do not cross the line of morality in the literal sense. Society would be one of the main antagonists in their relationship, after themselves. And with Charlaine Harris being the author, I doubt they have a smooth road for them. Sookie’s relationships aren’t exactly headed towards happily ever after, but I’m hoping that it won’t happen to Harper and Tolliver. I love them. I love the idea of them, their dependence to each other, and gooses, I couldn’t concentrate during graduation practice because I’ve been thinking about the book, the two, and the many possibilities that could happen.
I hope Charlaine Harris loves them and wishes for the same ending for the two as I do, because gooses, she’d make them canon!
And the series isn’t even about romance…but here I am talking just about that.
I wasn’t really a fan of Mystery and Suspense stories to start with, but Harris has this talent of drawing readers into the lives of the characters that I didn’t mind the plot falling into that genre anymore. =D
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