Monday 13 February 2012

Review, Dead Until Dark


Pre-info: this is the series that helped make the HBO TV series TrueBlood. 
 
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Dead Until Dark
Series: Sookie Stackhouse series, book 1
Pub: 2001, Gollancz
Author: Charlaine Harris
Cat: paranormal fiction (mystery)
Format: paperback (mid); 326 pp w/ 12 chapters
Age Range: Adults                                            

            Synopsis
Sookie Stackhouse is a small-time cocktail waitress in small-town Louisiana. She’s quiet, keeps to herself, and doesn’t get out much. Not because she’s not pretty. She is. It’s just that, well, Sookie has this sort of ‘disability’. She can read minds. And that doesn’t make her too dateable. And then along comes Bill: he’s tall, dark and handsome – and Sookie can’t ‘hear’ a word he’s thinking. He’s exactly the type of guy she’s been waiting for all her life.
    
But Bill has a disability of his own: He’s a vampire. Worse than that, he hangs with a seriously creepy crowd, with a reputation for trouble – of the murderous kind.
    
And when one of Sookie’s colleagues is killed, she begins to fear she’ll be next...

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