Dead until dark

Title: Dead until dark
Author: Charlaine Harris
Published: This edition in 2008, originally in 2001.
Genre: Romance with teeth.
Pages: 292


First of the Sookie Stackhouse -books by Harris, the first season of the HBO series True Blood was based on this one. Or so I'm told, I only saw the first two episodes. I'd like to see the rest as well, though.

Anyhoo, Sookie is a waitress in a small Louisiana town, and she's got a bit of a problem: she can read people's minds. That makes things like dating kind of difficult, until along comes Bill the vampire. She can't read his mind at all.

The books are set in an alternate of our world, where vampires exist and have just started to dwell among humans, claiming that their vampirism is just a medical condition caused by an infection. Anyhoo, thanks to the quiet that Bill causes in Sookie's head, they end up seeing a lot of each other - after dark. And everything would be nice and cozy if waitresses from the bar Sookie works at wouldn't start popping up dead, with vampire teeth marks on them.

Dead until dark was fun and quick to read, with a lot of action and humour. I'll probably check out the next book as well, once/if I get paid.


"I'd been waiting for the vampire for years when he walked into the bar.

"Ever since vampires came out of the coffin (as they laughingly put it) two years ago, I'd hoped one would come to Bon Temps. We had all the other minorities in our little town - why not the newest, the legally recognized undead?"