Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris

Dead Until Dark (Sookie Stackhouse, #1)

by 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.

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I'd been hearing rave reviews about the television show when I decided that before I dived into the show I'd read the books. What I failed to realise was the book is simply erotica dressed up as a vampire story. The plot is pretty much non-existent beyond she finds vampires hot and lo and behold she finds one and sleeps with him. The end. I won't be continuing with the rest of the series.

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