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I'd been waiting for the vampire for years when he walked into the bar. Cancel Save. This here is the story of just Sookie Stackhouse whereas True Blood expands on the side characters and fleshes them out; they were the ones that make it fun. Sookie is just dull, her life is dull, and this book is dull.

Even after all these years I can still taste the blandness of the writing. If my seventeen year old self, a self who had read less than twenty books in his life hated this, I dread to think how I would react to it now if I was reading it for the first time. View all 17 comments.

Nov 15, Jess the Shelf-Declared Bibliophile rated it really liked it. I enjoyed this much more than I thought I would. On to the next!

View all 5 comments. Oct 09, Helen 2. I might have enjoyed this one more if Sookie was a bit more relatable. In a paranormal romance, the reader is supposed to be able to project themselves into the main character, right? I mean, we pretend like that's not the point but that's kinda sorta really the point.

But Sookie is so emotionally distant and half the time I can't even tell if she's happy or sad or angry or what. Her motivations are hard to decipher from the text. Perhaps I misjudged the intent of the book; maybe it was written I might have enjoyed this one more if Sookie was a bit more relatable. Perhaps I misjudged the intent of the book; maybe it was written more as a murder-mystery than a PNR flick.

But, having watched True Blood before starting this series, my expectations going in were of steaminess and drama with a little spicy mystery mixed in. I was left a little disappointed. I want to get to know Charlaine's version of Eric Northman. My main life involved my nurse mother, my pharmacist legal father, and two of my three sisters, all living a suburban life just outside of Charlotte, NC. Bon Aqua, thusly named for the water that locals lineup in their pickup-trucks to collect, with their empty milk jugs, flowing out of a rusted pipe in the ground.

True story. And I am intimately acquainted with the small-minded prejudices that seem to thrive in small towns. I bloody LOVE it. So much effort that she has nothing left to devote to things like paying attention in class. I was too when I was in school. But Sookie is not an idiot, and though she does admittedly have her less-than-stellar moments, Harris ultimately creates a highly capable woman in her.

With one exception—the Japanese have created and patented synthetic blood, ending blood shortages for medical facilities, AND prompting vampires to come out of the coffin , so to speak. Vampires could subsist on the manufactured blood, protecting humans from their thirst. Things are rarely so simple. When she follows the three of them out to the parking lot and rescues Bill the vampire , she begins the series of events that lead to her romantic involvement a vampire.

So, if you didn't read that far, don't automatically make assumptions like I did when I assumed everyone knew this already! My bad. The reason is that there was a LOT of relationship angst. I can tell that Harris was trying to be realistic, and that's admirable. Real relationships DO have problems. BUT no one wants to hear about everybody else's everyday, nit-picky relationship issues. It's dull. And obnoxious. Which is how I felt about most of Bill and Sookie's relationship.

Oh, they had their good moments too, but then there were all the times Bill took "matters" into his own hands, and all the little misunderstandings, etc. That's why only 3. Sep 23, Nicole rated it it was ok Shelves: , urban-fantasy. I haven't watched the tv show, so I have no prior knowledge of this series. I usually think that I should take a book's publication date into consideration when I rate it. It might have been new to its time but in mine, not so much, so I need to cut it some slack.

But you know what? I don't care anymore-at least no in this case. The Outsiders for example is one of the first YAs.. It's better than so many published today. So no, I won't think "oh but this was very innovative in I haven't watched the tv show, so I have no prior knowledge of this series.

So no, I won't think "oh but this was very innovative in ". But I will tell you why: Dead Until Dark is simply uninteresting. I do mind how vampires were portrayed but our main characters.

Bill is so bland. I felt like Sookie threw herself in the arms of the first person she couldn't read his thoughts. Why wasn't that person Eric? Now that it would've made the book a lot more interesting. The fact that a change of the H to another character of this book would've affected my liking of it, makes it clear that I have no problem with its old vibes.

I really don't mind reading about traditional vampires. I was considering not finishing it. I kept pushing myself but it was very difficult and this book is less than pages -it should be finished in one sitting.

Yet, I was bored most of the time. It felt like a chore. I'm sure if I dropped it, I wouldn't have thought about it again. The other secondary characters were one dimensional and I simply could not care about anyone -but Eric. What a shame that he wasn't the love interest. Still, the ending was the best part of the book and saved it from the 1-star rating. I didn't hate this, nor even dislike it, it's just so so so unmemorable. I like a book to leave something in me, some warm feelings, some fondness, whatever, but this one was just meeeeh.

Needless to say, I won't continue with this series. Jan 14, Mary Beth rated it liked it. It just did not really excite me so much. I guess the main reason why is because I really do not care for vampire stories too much. I thought this would be an exception since there was a mystery in the book, and that was the part that I enjoyed.

Welcome to the small town of Bon Temps in Louisiana, where a mid twenty, blonde, blue-eyed waitress named Sookie 3. Welcome to the small town of Bon Temps in Louisiana, where a mid twenty, blonde, blue-eyed waitress named Sookie Stackhouse calls home.

But she's no ordinary waitress, she has a disability. She's a telepath. This makes life a little difficult for Sookie, particularly the dating part. Then one day a stranger arrives in town. He is tall, dark and handsome. And the best part is that, unlike everyone else, Sookie cannot hear his thoughts. But he is not perfect; he is pale, fanged and dead.

Enter Bill Compton, vampire. What follows is a fun and entertaining story, mixing romance, mystery and vampires, as Sookie and Bill begin a relationship, attempt to solve a number of murders that have coincidently occurred with the arrival of Bill into town, not to mention land her brother in jail, and also begins for her a new, and somewhat unwanted, career with the vampires of Louisiana.

View all 46 comments. I finally got to read a book that has been on my TBR for many, many years. I own the complete series and have been thinking about starting, only every time I get distracted by something newer and shinier, thus I have to thank FBR for having a buddy read scheduled, because I have a feeling if I didn't get to it now, I never would have Sookie is a waitress in a small town Louisiana, who happens to be a telepath valiantly trying to shield her mind from all the thoughts other people project.

Of course, her "disability" makes her the weird girl of the town, and when she meets the first vampire to try to settle openly in the neighborhood, she feels she can relate to him as an outsider Bonus, he is hot and she can't read his thoughts, thus he becomes like catnip to a kitten to her. As they get to know each other, weird murders inflict the township and anger and mistrust against the nice vamp, his name is Bill, by the way, grow, while suspicion against Sookie 's brother also find foundations.

As a novice and having no expectations, I actually enjoyed it, despite its simplicity and brevity, maybe even because of them. I did feel that Sookie could be a bit annoying with her snowflake syndrome and "purity of soul", but it was not prevalent and I guess I could fathom there being 25 years old gorgeous virgins with minimal tolerance for bad language while working in a country bar, but I have personally never known any I am told it is very different from the TV show, for those who would be interested because of it.

Now I wish you all Happy Reading and many more wonderful books to come! View all 16 comments. Nov 19, Scott Sigler rated it it was amazing. First off, paranormal fiction of any stripe really isn't my bag. My wife tricked me into watching it, because I was convinced I "couldn't possibly like yet another kissy-vampire show.

Since I'm an author and have high hopes of seeing one of my own books turned into a series someday, I picked up the First off, paranormal fiction of any stripe really isn't my bag.

DEXTER blew me away and still ranks as one of the most brilliant "high concept" ideas in horror fiction. It's fantastic. I need to get over my snooty attitude about paranormal romance, because this is just a flat-out good story. Harris creates a fantastic main character. Sookie Stackhouse is full of flaws and doubts, and at the same time is perfectly content in her normal life.

As content as she can be, considering her telepathic abilities. The normalcy and neuroses of Sookie make her instantly "real. Bottom line: loved the book, loved the character. The novel is fun, sexy and puts a great skin on a Down South murder mystery. It's no wonder this series is so popular.

View all 3 comments. I enjoyed Dead Until Dark more than I thought, I had only watched the first season of True Blood and I liked it alright but I never felt any desire to watch any other seasons. Season one stays very loyal to the book. I did miss Tara, she was my favorite character from season one. Since I remembered the first season I knew who the killer was but that didn't bother me because this book was just so much fun to read.

As with the show I found Sookie to be annoying but not enough to dampen my enjoymen I enjoyed Dead Until Dark more than I thought, I had only watched the first season of True Blood and I liked it alright but I never felt any desire to watch any other seasons. As with the show I found Sookie to be annoying but not enough to dampen my enjoyment of the book. Bill was just as boring in the book as I remembered him from the show. I'm hoping in the next book I get more Eric and maybe Bill grows a personality.

The book didn't have as much sex as I thought but it was just as gory as I thought. Recommended for fans of Laurell Hamilton and Anne Rice. This is not Twilight, so if you like your vampires sparkling and brooding this is not the series for you. Around the Year In 52 Books: A book written in first person perspective.

I was chatting with one of my Goodreads friends the other day about Charlaine Harris's older books, which led me to Sookie Stackhouse 1 here. This urban fantasy series features Sookie, a rural southern gal who waits tables in a bar for a living and considers her telepathy talent a "disability. Sookie is thrilled to meet a real vampire in the bar one night they're recently come out to the public , and even more excited when she starts talking to Bill Bill the Vampire?

But she can see when he's about to run into some possibly deadly trouble, and takes it upon herself to save Bill In the meantime, someone is killing women who sleep with vampires, and unfortunately Sookie's telepathy isn't doing her any good here. Also all of a sudden Sookie's boss Sam is acting interested in her "Why now after all this time?

There's something different about Sam too, and it's not just the bedroom eyes he's giving her. It's kind of similar to Twilight this book does predate that one by about three years , but with a lot more steam and a much less silly heroine. There are some pretty good scenes in it: "Bubba" the vampire was amusing, and Eric the Viking vampire was appropriately alarming.

Sookie was a real character to me, but Bill felt rather flat. Basically this is kind of an urban fantasy beach book, a supernatural southern murder mystery with a large side of romance. I prefer Kate Daniels and Mercy Thompson, but if this kind of thing is your literary jam, you could do a lot worse. I think I'll pass on the rest of the series, though. I really enjoyed this book and now I am looking forward to the second one.

Fantastic series. I completely forgot that happened at the end and it was all so brilliantly written. So sexy and harrowing at the same time. Like many, I first picked up the Sookie Stackhouse series years ago, in my teens, when paranormal fantasy was all the craze and I couldn't get enough of those sexy, brooding vampires.

You know how it goes. I remember loving this book back then, and being exceptionally fond of Bill Compton, but for whatever reason, I never really continued on with the books back then. Recently, I decided it'd be fun to reread this one and continue the series, so here we are.

What surprised me the most was how different Bill was from my memories! Teen Destiny definitely thought he was a brooding, stoic, protective gentleman, but adult Destiny just finds him to be a bit of a pig, frankly — and boring as hell. Give me literally any of her potential love interests other than Bill, please. I don't know all the spoilers for this series, but I know enough that I'm really excited to see how Sookie's going to arrive at certain situations, so I have to say that, despite this not being as good as I remembered it and the writing itself not being nearly as enjoyable as I once found it to be, either , I'm very intrigued and excited to pick up book 2!

View all 7 comments. Shelves: fantasy. A group read with my GR buddies. Sookie Stackhouse has a disability - at least she thinks she has one.

She can read minds and she always has to block this ability of hers to keep herself from going crazy from constant buzz of thoughts from everywhere.

She also wants to meet a vampire, so when one finally walks into the bar she works as a waitress in, she literally jumps at him the way poor creature does not stand a chance. For people who read Twilight I do not need to tell anything more as this A group read with my GR buddies.

For people who read Twilight I do not need to tell anything more as this most definitely was a book which heavily inspired Stephenie Meyer. I found two differences between the books. Sookie is more fleshed out than Bella Swan and unlike Twilight universe the vampires do not sparkle in this series; they glow. This basically is the whole review. If you like Twilight this might be your cap of tea. If you did not there is still hope for you - as I mentioned Sookie is a fairly interesting character on her own.

There is also a mystery in the book to keep things more exciting, but to be fair nobody bothered solving it. There were some half-hearted attempts at doing it, but I had a feeling nobody bothered to do it seriously, including the police and people whose lives were affected by it.

My own opinion: a decent book with nothing really outstanding. My rating is 2. View all 26 comments. Sep 30, Emma rated it liked it Shelves: urban-fantasy , vampires. A quick, light fun urban fantasy read. Apparently this series is the basis for True Blood. As I don't really watch TV this doesn't mean anything to me! Will definitely continue intermittently and see how the series pans out.

Certain things kind of annoyed me this time around but it was still fun to revisit the beginning of this series. When I saw that some of my friends on Goodreads were getting a buddy read of this book organized, I jumped at the chance to join.

I don't really know why I love this book so much. It actually has a few problems and I see them but I just don't care. I love this book anyway despite all of its flaws. This was actually the 4th time that I have read this book.

Any book that I can enjoy after reading 4 times deserves 5 stars in my opinion. I first started reading these books before the HBO series was produced. When I first saw the show, I remember thinking that many of the actors seemed wrong for the characters that I had created in my mind. I found it amusing on this re-read of the book all I could think about were the television characters.

I would like to warn anyone that decides to read these books because they like the television series that they are really two very different things. The first season of the show does follow this book pretty well but after that they really are two different stories that just happen to share the same characters. As I mentioned earlier, I did see some problems with this book. The writing isn't spectacular by any stretch.