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 read this in one sitting, so I think it’s safe to say I enjoyed it. I picked it up on a whim at the library, and had never heard of the series or the author, so it was a very pleasant surprise! Sookie is an interesting girl who doesn’t really know what, or who, she wants. I’m really looking forward to reading the rest of the series.

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