Dead Until Dark

Dead Until Dark

Charlaine Harris

4 Out of 5

Most vampire stories tend to fall into the same rut, but surprisingly, this one stands on its own feet. Not falling into the same clichés these funny and unique characters will keep you turning the pages.

Sookie Stackhouse is a naïve goodhearted southern girl minding her own business in Bon Temps, Lousiana when the vampires starting moving in. Being the south I guess that doesn’t raise too many eyebrows, but when girls that start dating vampires, affectionately called fang-bangers are murdered, Sookie can’t help getting involved.

Then Sookie meets Bill and even she has to question a vampire named Bill, shouldn’t they have more exotic names, and life gets even more interesting. See Bill’s one of the only people that Sookie can’t read. She calls it a disability; the ability to read other peoples minds, but how refreshing to actually find someone that isn’t an open book to her. OK, Bill might only be a mid-level vampire, but she can work with that.

Sookie’s innocence really is what makes this book funny, well, that and having Elvis as a bodyguard, but over all, this is a very good vampire series. Good action, good dialogue and not your usual been there done that vampire thing.