Product ReviewsSookie Stackhouse/True Blood Ser.: Dead until Dark by Charlaine Harris (2001, UK- A Format Paperback)

love this book!

this is the first book in the sookie stackhouse series. very good fun light reading. will be getting the next book in this series. i read heavier stuff, like kathy reichs, john sanford, catherine coulter, so it's nice to read something fun and less gorey between thrillers. enjoyed this book very much. has lots of interesting characters and situations. charlaine harris is a great author, her harper connelly series is also very good.Read full review...

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Great Series

I love the these books. They are very well written. No matter how many times I have read them, they are still a great read. It’s always nice to pull them back out again.

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OK, But Later Novels In Series Are Better

Fast read, aside from the main character, not too many of the other characters were very fleshed out, but that begins to get better later on in her series. The main story is about Sookie Stackhouse's love affair with Vampire Bill and solving a string of murders in the area that her brother Jason is being framed for. The story was decent and fast paced. Some of the sentence structure didn't make sense to me and at times I couldn't tell who was speaking but once again this gets better in her later novels. I kept reading it because some of the ideas in the book were interesting like one of the vamps being a famous dead rock star, and vamps being drained of their blood and having it sold like drugs that was interesting. I liked Dead To The World her third novel better.Read full review...

Love the Sookie Stackhouse Series

In the first book of the Sookie series we're introduced to Sookie, a simple country girl who is sweet, innocent, well.. until she meets vampire Bill, tough as nails, and very attractive. She has one little secret, telepathy, that has impacted her whole life...usually for the worse. Sookie's world is a hoot, very exciting, very HOT, and sometimes dangerous. This is a highly recommended series...love it.Read full review...

Dead until dark Charlaine Harris Sookie Stackhouse

This is the first book of the Sookie Stackhouse southern vampire series. Excellent story. Charlaine Harris did a wonderful job! So great in fact,
Come fall this is the basis for a new HBO Series called TRUE BLOOD. You will need this book to follow the story line. I recently sold all my Sookie books and am buying them all back.Sookie ia a telepathic waitress and hooks up with a Vampire. I don't want to say much more as I don't want to spoil it for you.Read full review...

Different & Less Exciting than the Show

The read itself was quick and easy. It is a very straight forward book but it does lack the action and suspense as the True Blood show. This is actually the first time I'd have to say that the show is better than the book. The book is completely different from the show. All of the outcomes are the same but they happen differently. There's less drama and some characters from the show are also missing from the book. It was almost like someone read the book and was like "Hey, I can do better" and made the series out of it. It brought back some of the show imagery but the only reason to read this book is if you're interested in how different the story line really is from the show. A pleasant and simple book to read though.Read full review...

Supernatural beings wander the South.

Sookie (pronounced like "cookie") is a mostly normal independent young woman trying to make an honest living in a small town in Louisiana. However, the recent public revelation that vampires are (and always have been) real makes life a little more exciting- and dangerous. Murder, first love, and Sookie's strange "disability" make this an excellent introduction into a world that you will want to visit again and again.Read full review...

Telepathic Barmaid Seeks Civil War Vampire for Romance

Meet Sookie Stackhouse, telepathic bar maid. Sookie, known around town as “Crazy Sookie” because of her psychic talent (she calls it “her disability”), is bored, lonely and repressed. That is, until the night Bill the Vampire walks into the bar where Sookie works. From that moment on, nothing in Sookie’s life can be called boring.

“Dead Until Dark” is the first in the “Sookie Stackhouse” series by Harris. We are introduced to the small Southern town of Bon Temps and its many colorful inhabitants. Sookie’s love interest turns out to be a man over 100 years older than Sookie, a Civil War Veteran and a member of the undead underground. Vampires in Sookie’s world have achieved legal status to exist alongside humans, though this does nothing to resolve the ages old conflict between human and vampire.

The vampires are clearly a metaphor for prejudice, but don’t let that stop you. Moralizing is minimal and humor abounds, as portrayed by the response Sookie’s own Gran has to the news that her granddaughter is dating a “fang”. Gran immediately wants to know if Bill will come and lecture her club on “what it was really like during the Civil War” and flutters around Bill and his suave manners like a crazed moth.

Harris drives her two main characters back and forth between love, confusion, violence and surrender like an out of control earthmover. I was happily exhausted by the time I reached the conclusion. By the way, I hardly set the book down once I’d started it. Wanting to know what happens next to Sookie and Bill more than wanting to shop is a powerful testament to Harris’ storytelling skills.

There’s a mystery at the heart of the story, which concludes in a satisfying manner, but what I liked best was the sense that these two characters, Sookie and Bill, were people I could get to know and care about.

Fairly explicit (and well written) erotic scenes make this an NC-17, so don’t give it to the kiddies. Keep it for yourself. No heavy reading here, but who needs it when you can tag along with two incredibly entertaining characters as they solve mysteries and gamely try to understand each other.

Once I had read ‘Dead Until Dark’ I ordered all the other books published to date. I burned through them like each one was a piece of candy and then mourned that I had to wait for more. There is, however, another source for Sookie addicts – HBO is releasing a new series based on the books, called ‘True Blood’.Read full review...

Fun Vampire Series

I really enjoy the whole 'Dead' Vampire series by Charlaine Harris. I was excited when I heard HBO was going to adapt it into a series directded by Alan Ball (Six Feet Under). I'm not sure what is happening with the series but the books are so much fun. The main character Sookie, a Louisiana bar waitress, is gifted with mind-reading abilities and interacts with the supernatural world of vampires and other creatures of the night. She is very humorous, personable, and gutsy.
This is a fun book series thats darkly humorous, mysterious, and a whole lot of fun.Read full review...

Awesome Book Series! Very Entertaining!

I bought this book because I love, love, love this series! I am a big vampire romance fan and this series has romance plus so much more! Charlaine Harris is an amazing author with a great imagination. I cannot wait until she writes her newest book!Read full review...