(C+) 67% | Almost SatisfactoryNotes: A clown car show (as coitus goes), though, fun if plot-petite: all trashy, trampy, batty/campy, bloodless (hardly heat).*Check out progress updates for detailed commentary: Progress updates:10/18/2025 - Preamble(1) I've just finished an audiobook I chose for Halloween, but it wasn't scary nor very Halloweeny. Given there's still time left, I decided to try and fit this in.- Not that this is all that scary either, though it is very Halloweeny.(2) Also, my only...

True Blood book 1:... as in the 'Southern vampire' series that shot to global fame because of the superbly casted HBO series. We are introduced to THE Southern vampire fantasy reality, to Bom Temps, Sookie, Jason, Vampire Bill and all, as they find out that they have a serial killer in their midst. 6 out of 12

🧛🏼‍♀️ December 2014 buddy read with Shelly, Carole, Evgeny, Karly, Jess, Allison, Catherine & Monty Cupcake 🧛🏼‍♀️💀 DNF at 50%.Sookie, Sookie, Sookie. Because of you most of my friends either hate me or think I'm a total freak. They think you're quirky, I think you're silly. They think your story is better than candy, I think your story is the most uninteresting ever. Sorry guys, I don't think this review is going to go well.I was recently told I was snarky and a cold-hearted, impatient ...

(C+) 67% | Almost Satisfactory
Notes: Its supporting characters are flat and uninteresting, the plot's banal, and the mythology isn't explored to its potential.

I can't remember if I started the books before the show or started the books after becoming obsessed with the show. But who really cares! I loved this world and still do!



Mel 🖤🐺🐾

I started reading this series because I was currently watching True Blood and had developed a slight obsession with Eric. Since then, the books have become an absolute guilty pleasure of mine. They are not the best written and occasionally we get a little too much of what we don't care for (i.e. fairies and shifters) but amid the hot vamp sex and murder mysteries... who really notices those anyway??Most characters have both annoying and redeeming qualities, but this is good - I never did like th...

The first book in the Sookie Stackhouse series. I confess - I picked this up at the bookstore for a few reasons:1. The cover was sparkly and I liked the art. 2. Vampires! Having spent a huge chunk of my youth hoping the vampires in Anne Rice's novels would knock on my window late at night (shut-up, like you didn't???) I have been looking for the next Brad Pitt with fangs. (shut-up, like you aren't???) And yeah. That was all it took. Sparkles and vampires - SOLD.I opened up the book and kinda reg...

After reading a succession of more serious books, I felt the need to read something light and trashy. As I discovered from reading this book, you should be careful what you wish for. Light? Yes. Trashy? Oh yes. Oh yes, yes, yes. But not in a good way - just trash, trash, trash.It is hard to say what I disliked more about this book - the sophomoric writing, or the annoying, vapid, 2-d, Harlequin-romance-heroine-helpless-twit persona of Sookie Stackhouse. Sookie is a psychic, and this fact is used...

Stephenie Meyer has nuthin' on this woman (...understatement!). Harris has in one pinky all the talent of the aforementioned hack, and her huge fan base must take note. "Dead Until Dark" is a heavy middle finger to all those in deep love (& therefore those with questionable tastes) with the "Twilight" series.This book reminds me that not all fiction has to be poetry. This one has a clear plot, it ties together all loose ends. It's enthralling, addictive, everything one wants in the PERFECT p...

Sigh. I tried to give this a fair chance, I really did. I went into it hopeful, despite some other negative reviews that I’ve read, because I quite liked the pilot for True Blood, the new HBO series based on these books. Dark, however, loses points from me right away because the two most interesting characters on the show—Sookie’s cranky best friend Tara, and Lafayette, the fabulous (in every sense of the word) chef at the bar where Sookie works—either completely don’t exist or have only the tin...