Dead Until Dark (Sookie Stackhouse, #1) in The Complete Idiots Guide to the Ultimate Reading List

Sep 26, 2010 Lisa (Harmonybites) rated it it was amazing

Shelves: contemporary, mystery, fiction, crime, novels, romance, popular-fiction, ultimate-reading-list, horror, fantasy

If you know Sookie by that HBO series, well, from what a friend tells me of them, they're quite different in overall feel and characterization than the books. I haven't seen True Blood, but I have read all the books, and they're favorites.

Like L.K. Hamilton Anita Blake series, these are first person accounts of a world where vampires and shapeshifters are more or less out in the open. At the start of the series, vampires anyway, since a synthetic blood developed by the Japanese allows vampires ...more

Like · see review

Jun 19, 2010 Kirby rated it really liked it

Shelves: favorites, vampire-related

As many others have said of this book, it is a guilty pleasure. The writing style is not the best- I can't decide if that's intentional or not- but the premise is really quite interesting. I found myself really liking Sookie and enjoying her adventures. It's sort of light, breezy reading that can be a nice break. Sometimes the story lags, sometimes it's somewhat repetitive, and sometimes there's too many sex scenes, but I still enjoyed the first 3 that I have read, and I do intend to read the re ...more

Like · see review

Apr 16, 2012 Tara rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Not as good as Anne Rice but really...who is? Charlaine Harris has caught my interest with just the right amount of sex and violence. This series was recommended to me by a few friends. I've never seen True Blood and I'm not sure that I want to. Twilight ruined vampire movies for me. The books I can still deal with. ...more

Like · see review