Dead Until Dark

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Charlaine Harris

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.

Urban Fantasy

Mystery

Dark Fantasy

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Author

Charlaine Harris

Pages

304

Publisher

Penguin

Published Date

2001-05-01

ISBN

1101146311 9781101146316

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"I wish I would have read the book first It's difficult to review this seeing as how I watched the show first. I will say it is pretty similar to the series which only made it harder to read since I knew what was going to happen. I did enjoy it thought. The plot is unique and funny and I really enjoy Sookie's character. She is a no nonsense I'll do what I want kind of girl. Sookie: I looked down at myself. I was bloodstained and wrinkled, and I smelled funny. Yuck. I looked over at Bill to share my disgust with him, but he was looking at me in an unmistakable way. “No,” I said forcefully. “You start this car and get out of here before anything else happens, Bill Compton. I tell you flat, I’m not in the mood.” Haha I had some good laughs. I want to read the rest of the series and see the differences but it will take a while I'm not into reading after the film. It takes a little of the magic away."

Ashley

"This book is great the ending is kinda a cliff hanger tho"

Daisy

"The dragonlance series!!"

Emily Hagen

"I haven’t watched the show in a long time so I wanted to read the books it did not disappoint "

Sarah Hall

"The world can fade away as you disappear into the world of Sookie stackhouse"

Ashley Miller

"The entire series is thoroughly enjoyable. It’s what lead to the creation of True Blood on HBO!"

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V Heer

"Fairly poorly written and the author tends to lean heavily towards being racist and homophobic. "

Vickie Fine

"The writing style felt way too fast. Not in the sense that the plot is moving quickly, but that the point of view made it feel like a sugar buzz after eating a whole candy factory."

Britt B

"If you saw the show first, this book isn't very surprising in any way, but there are enough differences to make it a fun book. And there's definitely an overall difference in the feel."

Shane Dakan

"I read these books as they came out and the TV series stays true in the first season but then it goes off the track and zigzags back, kind of staying true to the characters but creating a parallel version. I very much enjoyed the TV series, but I loved the books."