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.
Such good trashy fun, I love it. Surprisingly close to the first season of the show too, I was expecting it to be way different but it's practically identical. I know that changes as the books and seasons go on, but still, it was very close in this one. I like that in the book you get more of an understanding of Sookie - in the show you don't realise that actually she is much smarter than she seems, her apparent stupidity is actually her being so constantly worn out by trying to keep out of peoples minds and by being constantly distracted and overwhelmed by other peoples thoughts. It was an interesting thing to learn.
