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.
This has that fanfic quality I love that’s hard to find anywhere else but fanfic: just somebody’s thoughts, spelled out, unfiltered, but in the form of a story. I like getting inside somebody’s head like that. (Yes. Sookie’s a telepath. I see what I did there.)
[Edited to add: by “get inside somebody’s head,” I mean the writer of the story, not the character in the story. That too, sure, but you can’t read a story like this, unfiltered, without reading about the writer. That’s the part I like.]
It’s not perfect, it’s candy, but hell, the people are conflicted and capable of complicated things in ways that I miss in other, better books. It’s good at heart and full of flaws and fairly bounces with energy. Reminds me what was so great about that first season of True Blood.
“You don’t have to be perfect, Sookie.”
“You mean I get to screw up and be less than understanding and forgiving, from time to time? Thanks, boss.”
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