Started Reading: March 27, 2007
Finished Reading: March 27, 2007

Reading Grave Surprise sure did make me glad I was supporting the whole Harper/Tolliver thing, LOL.

“In the time of ice, you’ll be so happy,” she said.

“You can’t keep lying,” Xylda said gently. “You have to stop doing that. It won’t hurt anyone.”

I HAVE HOPE!!! After Harper’s revelation, or self-confrontation, in chapter fourteen, I’m glad that after all those years she finally understood the deepness of her relationship with Tolliver. I think, after this, there’d be some strain in their relationship but I’m still hoping for happiness in the third novel, An Ice Cold Grave (will be released on late September to October 2007).

Here’s another case with a murderer in the ‘family’, though in a different sense as the last novel. And I highly doubt that killing your love-interest’s child would be a good way of snatching him so, though Felicia’s plan was logical, it was still…pretty stupid. Like they said, you don’t get good results using evil means. Good can’t be a progeny of evil.

I’m more interested with Harper and Tolliver’s life than with Sookie and the vamps (but I do enjoy the other series very much, too), that I think it’s going to be more difficult for me waiting for September or October before I can start hunting for a copy of the An Ice Cold Grave. I guess, it’s because I feel more involved with Harper and Tolliver’s ‘world’ than with Sookie and the vamps. Or maybe that’s because the next book’s coming out on May and that’s sooner, LOL.

I’d say that chapter fourteen would be my favorite in this novel, for obvious reasons. : D “In the time of ice, you’ll be so happy,” she said. — That ought to foreshadow something good, with the next book entitled, An Ice Cold Grave.

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.

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