Brandon J. (bran-flakes14) reviewed on 3/11/2010 + 72 more book reviews

I fell in-love with HBO's fantastically-realized hit show "TrueBlood", and was overjoyed to learn that it's based on a series of equally-popular books. I grabbed the first in the multiple-book series, "Dead Until Dark", as soon as I could and devoured it pretty quickly. A book which defies genre-assigning, the novel explores the life of telepathic waitress Sookie Stackhouse, who lives in a small, deep-South Louisiana town called Bon Temps. Plagued with her "curse" of hearing other people's private thoughts, Sookie is soon overjoyed when the town's first vampire, amusingly named Bill, moves to Bon Temps. The books most interesting idea comes from the fact that vampires have recently "come out of the coffin" because of a synthetic, bottled blood that allows them to get their nourishment without having to feed from humans, but the characters are well-written and rounded, and Sookie makes for a plucky, innocent, and all-together wonderful heroine. The book combines different genres, ranging from fantasy to comedy to horror to romance, and gives the reader a great mystery to boot. All in all, this is a must-read!

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