Name: Dead Until Dark
Series: Sookie Stackhouse #1
Author: Charlaine Harris
Publisher: Orion Publishing
Format: Kindle
Genres: Adult, Urban Fantasy, Paranormal, Romance, Mystery
Spice Rating: Behind Closed Doors 🌶️🌶️
Rating:
Synopsis: Goodreads
Meet Sookie Stackhouse, a telepathic cocktail waitress in the quiet rural town of Bon Temps, Louisiana: she’s found a boyfriend, and her life will never be the same again!
Sookie Stackhouse is a small-time cocktail waitress in small-town Louisiana. She’s quiet, keeps to herself and doesn’t get out much – not because she’s not pretty – she’s a very cute bubbly blonde – or not interested in a social life. She really is…but Sookie’s got a bit of a disability. She can read minds. And that doesn’t make her too dateable.
And then along comes Bill: he’s tall, he’s dark and he’s handsome – and Sookie can’t ‘hear’ a word he’s thinking. He’s exactly the type of guy she’s been waiting all her life for. But Bill has a disability of his own: he’s fussy about his food, he doesn’t like suntans and he’s never around during the day… Yep, Bill’s a vampire. Worse than that, he hangs with a seriously creepy crowd, with a reputation for trouble – of the murderous kind.
And then one of Sookie’s colleagues at the bar is killed and it’s beginning to look like Sookie might be the next victim.
Review:
Hm. I…
Let’s start with the postives. I really liked the mystery of this novel – who is killing the women? This I was all for, and every time we got a snippet of this mystery I was trying to solve it. I loved Sookie’s grandma, she was so unapologetically a grandma… Like a sterotypical old, kind, but not taking any funny business, grandma. I loved her.
Sookie Stackhouse, for whom the series is named, left some to be desired. She wasn’t awful, but I just didn’t love her either. I wrote a whole bit here about my issues with her, then paused and realised it essentially spoiled the entire book – so I took it out. But, I like her character. I don’t like her when she’s with certain other characters.
I’m intending to carry on reading this series because there were characters that I did like, even if it wasn’t the main couple, and Charlaine did write a good mystery! I have no idea what the rest of the series is about, but I’m really hoping it improves.
To be clear, this was technically a reread. I read it over a decade ago – but I only remembered some names basically. Everything about the plot was gone, and I rated it 4 stars the first time round. Never picked up the rest of the series. Sadly, I’m just not that into it now as a 30 year old, I suppose.
“Life begins at night”
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