Review: Dead Until Dark
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Title: Dead Until Dark
Series: Southern Vampire Mysteries
Author(s): Charlaine Harris
Genre: Fiction
Tags: vampire, new orleans, telepathy, shape shifting, louisiana, romance, horror, mystery, murder, blood, sookie stackhouse, bill compton, true blood
Summary: Sookie is just a regular barmaid and telepath from Bon Temps, Louisiana until she meets the vampire Bill and becomes entwined in murder and supernatural mystery.
Finished: October 30, 2008
Rating: 5 Stars
Review:
It’s been a long time since I’ve read a good vampire story. In fact, I don’t read many vampire stories at all. I have high expectations… to high, I guess. But, I really enjoyed this one. And joy, none of the characters pissed me off or annoyed me. Dead Until Dark was funny, sexy, and interesting. I enjoyed the plot and really liked some of the characters. I overlooked my expectations for vampires to read this book and I found it worth my while. Though the Southern Vampires sort of defied some of what I think vampire should be, I liked the books enough to get past that superficial issue. I thought that the dialogue was especially good. Nothing can turn me off of a book faster than dialogue that seems forced or insincere… or just NOT the way that people talk. I am utterly charmed with the Southern Vampire Mysteries now. I finally found a series about vampires worth reading since Anne Rice. You want exciting and sexy? Read this series. In ways, it’s even better than anything Anne Rice created since hers remain shrouded in mystery and lore. The Southern Vampire Mysteries make vampires part of this world; it rips from them a preternatural sense of otherness and puts them directly in the human world shamelessly. Simply wonderful.
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