The Beautiful Creatures movie apparently came out this weekend. I am perpetually late to the party, and just purchased the books this weekend.
Quite frankly, I'm having a hard time getting into the story... can someone help me? Is it really worth continuing to read? Or should I just shove it off my kindle?
My initial problems are these:
It's set near Lake Moultrie, in South Carolina, and they say it is like their local swimming pool. Now, I know that some people swim down there, but it is such a bad idea. There are alligators, and they love tasty arms and legs. I have family that live near that area... and those redneck cousins of mine would line haybales with trash bags and fill them up with hose water before they would get out of a boat on the lake.
The droppin' of every single ing. Why, WHY do people write southerners like this? We don't all drop our g's. And, even if we did, it makes for awful reading. It just doesn't add to the story, and when people from the north try to write southern accents it is just wrong.
And, the character talks about how everyone around that area under the age of sixty calls the Civil War "The War Between the States" or "The War of Northern Aggression." No, no we don't. Are there racists in the Deep South? Yes. But it is a stereotype that many of us born and raised here hate, and want to grow out of. I have never known anyone in my family that ever called the Civil War anything but that. I just think it is a way to marginalize southerners, and there are better ways to express the culture of the South.
So, guys, help me. Should I stay or should I go? If it is a really great story, and it's about to suck me into a beautiful alternate world, I'll keep at it.