Today's review is for Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris which became the True Blood TV show.
Sookie Stackhouse is a small-time cocktail waitress in small-town Louisiana. She's quiet, keeps to herself, and doesn't get out much. Not because she's not pretty. She is. It's just that, well, Sookie has this sort of "disability." She can read minds. And that doesn't make her too dateable. And then along comes Bill. He's tall, dark, handsome - and Sookie can't 'hear' a word he's thinking. He's exactly the kind of guy she's been waiting for all her life. But Bill has a disability of his own: He's a vampire. Worse than that, hangs with a seriously creepy crowd, with a reputation for trouble - of the murderous kind. And when one of Sookie's colleagues is killed, she begins to fear she'll be next.
This unfortunately doesn't fit into the alphabet challenge. But it does cross off "A book based on or turned into a TV show" in my 2015 challenge.
So I pick up this series thinking great it will be a good mystery book, oh and cool vampires. I did not expect it to have so much sex. Overall though it was a decent book. It's a fairly quick, easy, somewhat sleazy read. This story was set up so that most of it was introducing characters and then the end and the problem all just kind of happened at the same time. It was kind of set up poorly. Unfortunately, Sookie is the perfect looking protagonist, the only difference is that she has her own kind of power. These books were silly and ridiculous with not that great writing but they are now a guilty pleasure of mine. I gave it 3 out of 5 stars.
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Mackenzie
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