I just finished reading the 1st book in the Sookie Stackhouse series, the same series that the HBO show True Blood is based on. There are many, many more books in this series, and before I read the first one I was excited about the prospect of having another long series to read. UNFORTUNATELY, I will not be reading anymore of these books. I've heard this series compared to the Twilight Saga, and even some have accused Stephanie Meyer of copying Harris. While there are similar themes in both books, i.e, vampires, mind reading abilities, warewolves, human falls in love with vampire, etc, they are also very different and I much prefer Twilight any day (even though I get mad at it every time I read it, but that's a story for another day). Dead Until Dark just didn't live up to my expectations, and I would probably only give it 2 stars out of 5. The biggest warning I would give someone before reading this is that it is rated PG-13 at best, and probably more like R; there's a reason True Blood airs on HBO, and it's in the book too, so watch out if you don't like that kind of thing. But even more disappointing to me was the lack of character development and predictable plot. It was kind of like a vampire-slash-murder mystery novel, and I'm really not that into either. Plus the mystery part wasn't very compelling and pretty easy to figure out (I knew after the second murder who the killer was). The biggest theme in the book seemed to be sex, sex, and more sex. Bottom line, the characters weren't interesting or even likeable, and the plot was LAME. I think the overall idea (vampires openly living among humans) was complelling, but too bad Harris did a lousy job of telling the story. Sigh...I guess I'll have to find another long series to read.
My next read is the seond book in the Looking Glass Wars series, Seeing Redd by Frank Beddor (I loved the first one, so I'm looking forward to this one).
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