Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris
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slowfoxThis is all glittertine's fault :-P
I picked up Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris yesterday - Sookie Stackhouse is a waitress in Louisiana, who happens to be telepathic, works for a bar-owner who has his own special ability, and starts dating a vampire... The basic tale is one of a serial killer on the loose - suspicion initially falls on Sookie's beau, and then on her brother, and it's an interesting ride to the conclusion.
Actually, as we neared the end of the book, I was counting pages and wondering exactly how it was all going to be resolved, and dreading the prospect of finding to be continued... tacked on to the final paragraph. But no, there's a conclusion, and oddly enough, it doesn't feel that rushed.
Much of it is sorta reminiscent of Tate Hallaway's Tall Dark and Dead, but it has slightly different emphases.glittertine has suggested that the backstory in these books (it's the first in a series) starts to kick in after a few instalments. I think we already get the hint that there's more going on that meets the eye as this tale unfolds, and it does feel as though there's going to be a Bill/Sookie/Sam triangle unfolding a little later.
The cover on my edition proudly sports a sticker declaring the book to be the deliciously addictive new series True Blood as seen on FX as well as a printed sub-heading that it's now the HBO original series True Blood. So sadly there's no way of pretending that I jumped on this bandwagon before it got famous.</uncool moment> ;-P
Anyway, 'twas fun, and I think I now need to read the next one :-)
glittertine's fault :-PI picked up Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris yesterday - Sookie Stackhouse is a waitress in Louisiana, who happens to be telepathic, works for a bar-owner who has his own special ability, and starts dating a vampire... The basic tale is one of a serial killer on the loose - suspicion initially falls on Sookie's beau, and then on her brother, and it's an interesting ride to the conclusion.
Actually, as we neared the end of the book, I was counting pages and wondering exactly how it was all going to be resolved, and dreading the prospect of finding to be continued... tacked on to the final paragraph. But no, there's a conclusion, and oddly enough, it doesn't feel that rushed.
Much of it is sorta reminiscent of Tate Hallaway's Tall Dark and Dead, but it has slightly different emphases.
glittertine has suggested that the backstory in these books (it's the first in a series) starts to kick in after a few instalments. I think we already get the hint that there's more going on that meets the eye as this tale unfolds, and it does feel as though there's going to be a Bill/Sookie/Sam triangle unfolding a little later.The cover on my edition proudly sports a sticker declaring the book to be the deliciously addictive new series True Blood as seen on FX as well as a printed sub-heading that it's now the HBO original series True Blood. So sadly there's no way of pretending that I jumped on this bandwagon before it got famous.</uncool moment> ;-P
Anyway, 'twas fun, and I think I now need to read the next one :-)
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Date: 2009-08-31 11:18 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-09-01 07:59 am (UTC)No, they're not great literature, but the stories roll along quite nicely, and I like the setting :-)
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Date: 2009-08-31 11:34 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-09-01 08:03 am (UTC)The clerk at HMV (yeah, I bought the books at a CD/DVD store) was gushing enthusiastically about True Blood, which I had to confess to not having seen (Me: Hey, I'm so hip I read the original source material before watching the adaptation :-P).
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Date: 2009-09-15 08:26 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-09-15 08:33 am (UTC)Sookie
Date: 2009-09-15 09:47 am (UTC)As soon as the torrential rain abates I'm heading off to purchase sequels. *nods*
Sookie
Date: 2009-09-15 10:07 am (UTC)As soon as the torrential rain abates I'm heading off to purchase sequels. *nods*
Re: Sookie
Date: 2009-09-15 10:13 am (UTC)I bought the first book on the Saturday, just to see if I liked it, in a 'dip a toe in the water' sort of fashion.
I bought the next four instalments on the Sunday... and the rest, as they say, is history.
It's taking uncommon levels of resolve, even if I do say so myself, to not cave in and buy Dead and Gone. I mean, I know it's a hardback, but I could always buy the matching paperback later, couldn't I? </dangerous talk>
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Date: 2009-08-31 06:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-09-01 08:05 am (UTC)Spooky indeed! I was trying to track down a copy of The Reality Dysfunction and/or The Neutronium Alchemist to venture on a re-read of those. If you could buy only the first half of The Naked God I'd have tried to get that, too, but then I got sidetracked by the Charlaine Harris stuff, so I'm reading those atm. Plus OotP, of course.
I think I may well give the show a try, once I've ploughed through canon - there is a Proper Order to these things, after all :-)
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Date: 2009-09-14 09:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-09-15 07:02 am (UTC)The best thing, as
:D
Sookie
Date: 2009-09-15 08:25 am (UTC)