Dead Until Dark (Sookie Stackhouse, #1) in All the pages you read

Nov 09, 2009 Gaijinmama rated it it was amazing

Shelves: fiction, favorites, paranormal

Wow. I adore the TV show True Blood but somehow, never got around to reading this.
What was I waiting for?!

Devoured it in three days. Housework? Kids? what are those and who cares?! I just could not put this one down. It is different enough from the TV show that I didn't feel as though anything was spoiled. Sookie, as a character, is much funnier in print than on the small screen. I just love her internal dialogue, and her relationship with Bill is sweet and scary and breathtakingly hot without b ...more

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Dec 12, 2009 GinBee rated it it was amazing

Shelves: 2009-read, all-pnr-uf, 1st-in-series, z-me-fiction, urban-fantasy, read-fiction, owned-physical

Good mix of vampires and mystery, not too dark but with plenty of action to hold the interest. Sookie Stackhouse, waitress and telepath, is a great character who seems like she could be a real person, she lives in a convincing and welcoming world. Looking forward to the rest of the series.

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May 17, 2010 Gus rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: read-2010, mystery, fantasy-paranormal, light-paranormal-romance, vampire

Alright, so I guess the reason this gets only 3 (generous) stars is probably because it was so hyped up in my head (I work in a bookstore, you know, so people are always talking about it). It didn't live up to my expectations. I thought it would be cleverer, funnier, with better writing. What was the worst though, was that I HATED Bill! I couldn't stand him at all. I don't want to give anything away to people who haven't read it yet, but he was just so annoying to me. Sookie as well. The whole " ...more

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