Dead Until Dark.

I didn’t have much time to so this, so here we go.

This is a fantastic book full of mystery, suspense and romance. The only complaint I have with it is there was too much sex, but the story was so intriguing that I just couldn’t put it down. I have read five more books since, and am currently on the sixth. I particularly enjoyed the detail Harris uses to describe small town life and how they reacted to the first vampire in town and a possible serial killer.

The development of synthetic blood brings vampires out of hiding and into the human world, ‘coming out of the coffin’, as Harris ironically puts it. Bill is the first vampire that comes to live in Bon Temps where he meets Sookie Stackhouse. Sookie is a waitress at the local bar and she can read minds, but not selectively. She hears everyone and has a hard time blocking it out, putting up barriers that take up most of her concentration, making people think she’s crazy. She soon discovers that she can not hear vampire thoughts when she meets Bill.

Shortly after Bon Temps first vampire comes to reside, they begin to have a string of murders. Many of the people of the small town don’t believe it is a coincidence that these horrifying incidents started after the arrival of their first undead resident. Then there is also Jason Stackhouse who has sleeped, in the past, with the women who have been killed.

As Sookie becomes friends with Bill she discovers the world of vampires is dangerous and terrifying at times. On the other hand when she is with Bill her mind is quiet and peaceful.

Harris develops her characters so well in this book, and she keeps the plot fast pace, full of twists and turns, I was addicted by the end of the first chapter. I was never bored I absolutely could not put this book down.

I do have to warn this is not a book for children it is full of explicit sexual scenes, extreme violence and some foul language. I would recommend this book but I also want to again express my complaint…there was way to much detailed sex in this book. I have read 5 more books in this series and none of them had this much sex. Seriously. They have hinted at it, but there has not been any ‘bed scenes’.

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