Dead Until Dark
Sink your teeth into the first novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling Sookie Stackhouse series—the books that gave life to the Dead and inspired the HBO® original series True Blood.
Sookie Stackhouse is just a small-time cocktail waitress in small-town Bon Temps, Louisiana. She's quiet, doesn't get out much, and tends to mind her own business—except when it comes to her “disability.” Sookie can read minds. And that doesn’t make her too dateable. Then along comes Bill Compton. He’s tall, dark, handsome—and Sookie can’t hear a word he’s thinking. He’s exactly the type of guy she’s been waiting for all her life...
But Bill has a disability of his own: he’s a vampire with a bad reputation. And when a string of murders hits Bon Temps—along with a gang of truly nasty bloodsuckers looking for Bill—Sookie starts to wonder if having a vampire for a boyfriend is such a bright idea.
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I've never watched the show True Blood, and it reeeeally doesn't seem like something I'd like to watch anyway. I'm more likely to read the book than watch the show. It doesn't seem to matter which you choose, they are so different: True Blood is really dark and not very subtle (so I've been told) - the Sookie Stackhouse books (so far) are really coy and "lighthearted."
Dead Until Dark is total cheese. Velveta cheese. It's like one big Velveta cheese casserole. The doom and gloom of the novel is comparable to the stomach cramps just such a cheese casserole would give you. You know exactly what you're getting yourself into when you read this book. But don't get me wrong, this is entertaining, time killing stuff. Sure, the characters usually are either boring are annoying or both, there are some inconsistencies with the plot (at one point I was so angry because I felt like I'd been mislead about a particular detail of the novel, I wanted to put the book in a blender), and the writing isn't very exciting, but it is entertaining and a quick read.
Something I really enjoyed about the book and found really interesting is that Vampires are kind of a metaphor for the social issues homosexuality has in our present society. That's a pretty cool twist on the old vampire romance thing that's been beaten into the ground lately.
(Still Better Than Twilight)
Dead Until Dark is total cheese. Velveta cheese. It's like one big Velveta cheese casserole. The doom and gloom of the novel is comparable to the stomach cramps just such a cheese casserole would give you. You know exactly what you're getting yourself into when you read this book. But don't get me wrong, this is entertaining, time killing stuff. Sure, the characters usually are either boring are annoying or both, there are some inconsistencies with the plot (at one point I was so angry because I felt like I'd been mislead about a particular detail of the novel, I wanted to put the book in a blender), and the writing isn't very exciting, but it is entertaining and a quick read.
Something I really enjoyed about the book and found really interesting is that Vampires are kind of a metaphor for the social issues homosexuality has in our present society. That's a pretty cool twist on the old vampire romance thing that's been beaten into the ground lately.
(Still Better Than Twilight)
Loaned to me by Deanna, a friend from work who loved "Twilight" So she recommended this tome...So alot of the same story lines as "Twilight" just more adult themes. Human girl falls for thevampire- Sookie's aquantances are murdered then her grandmother is murdered- her brother Jason is accused of the murders because he had been with both girls (and videoed them) and it was thought frandma was killed instead of Sookie- all the women had been with vampires- Turns out, Sookie's best friend's, Arlene, boyfriend, Rene, is the murderer- He tried to kill her but she fought back- he's in intensive care- She's recovering from several broken bones- This is the beginning of a series- guess I'll have to read more....
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