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Dead Until Dark (Sookie Stackhouse, #1)

Charlaine Harris

Start date: September 1, 2022

Finish date: September 30, 2022

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Sep 30, 2016 Emma rated it liked it

Shelves: vampires, urban-fantasy

A quick, light fun urban fantasy read. Apparently this series is the basis for True Blood. As I don't really watch TV this doesn't mean anything to me! Will definitely continue intermittently and see how the series pans out. ...more

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Oct 29, 2019 Vicki rated it really liked it

Shelves: fantasy, romance, towerteams_7, mystery, paranormal, vampires, urban-fantasy, pages_201-300

I loved my first Sookie Stackhouse book a lot! Sookie is human and she has the ability to read others' minds. That is until she meets the vampire Bill. She and Bill fall for each other and I absolutely love their relationship and their attraction to each other.

In this book there is love, romance, murder, theft, betrayal, shape-shifting, and so much more than I ever expected. I was surprised at the first shape-shifting! I wasn't expecting it which made it more fun for me.

Some killings that take p ...more

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May 04, 2013 Michelle rated it liked it

Shelves: louisiana, paranormal-romace, shape-shifters, paranormal, vampires, fantasy, shorn-shelf

I guess I'm a little late to the True Blood Party. I watched some of the show and honestly I found it to be a bit too bloody for my taste and kind of tasteless so I stopped watching it as religiously as others. I bought the 1st book and kind of forgot about until now so I picked it up and gave it a try. It's an interesting take on vampires and the citizens of Louisiana. It's nothing special and I founjd that I felt the same way about the characters on the show as I did in the book so it seems th ...more

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Jun 09, 2016 Lindsay♫SingerOfStories♫ rated it liked it

Shelves: 2016-reads

6/13/16 - This was a re-read for me. Quite an easy read. I really want to like and love this series, and I do...but I don't love it. I don't feel connected to the characters. I don't really care for them. For one, I hate their names. Sookie. Bill. Sid Matt Whatever. Eric is ok. Nice and normal. As is Jason. But Bill and Sookie - really?! My midwestern brain just can't take it.

So then there is the quick progression of the romance. Its too easy to me. There is no struggle. There is no woo-ing, if ...more

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Jan 02, 2012 Lindsay♫SingerOfStories♫ rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: 2016-reads

This was a re-read for me. I read it for the first time back in 2012 or 2013 and I think I was fresh off the Anita Blake books and these are so fluffy compared to those (which I used to love). Now Dead Until Dark feels more cozy to me, and I'm okay with that. I really like Sookie and feel she is a pretty stable character. She does some stupid crap like running off to start fights when she's never been in a fight before in her life....but she learns her lesson and uses her gift (or "disability: a ...more

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Jun 03, 2012 Lynn Bourke rated it it was amazing

Shelves: kick-ass-heroine, vampire, favourite-series, first-in-a-series, favourite-author

Really good read - chatty style of writing, which I enjoyed. Didn't realise these were the books that True Blood is based on until I started reading! Going to read number 2 in the series now... ...more

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Apr 15, 2012 Denise rated it liked it

Guilty pleasure book.

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Jan 30, 2018 Erin **Coffee and Book Addict** rated it really liked it

Shelves: challenge-addict-2018, purchased, cleaning-out-the-tbr-closet-2018

I had started this book a few years ago and never got through it. But I started it again and I am glad I did. It was good! I really enjoyed the story line and could appreciate the main characters for all of their traits, good and bad.

I have the rest of the series on my TBR list and have it on my Kindle so I am ready and excited to read the rest of the series.

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Apr 11, 2012 Cassy rated it it was amazing

I've read this book before and loved it. I listened to the audiobook this time. I loved the narrator. She did an amazing job and kept it interesting. ...more

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