Dead Until Dark- Charlaine Harris
You know back when you’re little and you’re afraid of things that go bump in the night? I was afraid of nearly everything. Surprisingly, vampires are not on that list. I always wanted to meet one (yeah, that really hasn’t changed much).
This is the first in the series that inspired the HBO original series True Blood. Harris’s book starts just as the vampires have come out of the grave and have decided to no longer hide from humans. The protagonist, Sookie Stackhouse, is a young waitress at the local bar with what she calls a ‘disability’, the ability to hear the thoughts of people around her. All her life she’s wanted to meet a vampire, and when Bill walks into the bar, she realizes that it’s better than she could’ve imagined. She can’t hear a single one of his thoughts. Sookie’s prayers might just be answered, until young women in Bon Temps have been turning up dead. And all signs point to a vampire…
I’ll admit, I found it comical most of the time because of how Southernly and innocent Sookie was, but Harris does weave a good tale. If you’re looking for some more eternal love scenarios betweena vampire and a human and need something a little more adult than another vampire cult classic, read it.
