I haven't read much of the [Word] in Death series, but yeah, Eve Dallas comes across as incredibly Mary Sueish to me -- though in J.D. Robb's favor, she at least manages to make the character and her world interesting and a lot of Dallas's Sueish traits aren't much different from those of any uber-badass cop out there. In a lot of ways, Dallas is a female Dirty Harry.
I've got a similar reaction with J.R. Ward's Black Dagger Brotherhood. Part of me reads these books going "OMG! It's the land of Gary Stus!" but Ward manages to put in just enough twists to make the characters interesting enough to compensate for the silliness. And manages to make the silliness interesting in and of itself.
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Date: 2008-05-30 01:49 pm (UTC)I've got a similar reaction with J.R. Ward's Black Dagger Brotherhood. Part of me reads these books going "OMG! It's the land of Gary Stus!" but Ward manages to put in just enough twists to make the characters interesting enough to compensate for the silliness. And manages to make the silliness interesting in and of itself.