Dead Until Dark
Charlaine Harris
Overall: 2/5
Plot and themes: 2/5
Characters: 1/5
Writing style: 1/5
Attention-grabbing: 2/5
I feel like the Sookie Stackhouse series is pretty popular and well-received, but it could just be that it has a lot of books and a TV show. Cause I don't know what this book was but it was not well-received by me, one might even call it bad. Sookie is your run-of-the-mill small-town waitress except also she's not at all because she reads minds. Half the town thinks she's psychotic while the other half thinks she's sweet but... not all there. Things start getting crazy for her when she meets a man who she can finally be around without knowing his every thought, the only catch being that he's a vampire. Oh, and women of the exact same demographic profile as her are also getting systematically murdered.
This book is so weird. There are just a bunch of really random off-topic thought trains by the protagonist, she has a super strange perspective on herself and everyone around her that's rather off-putting. The romance just does not hit, the dude's name is Bill so I don't know how I would ever get on board with that. It's just overwhelmingly complicated and random for a very basic resolution that has no textual backing.
I didn't like it. It was funny enough at times and wasn't horrible enough to DNF. But it was pretty bad. I wouldn't recommend it to vampire lovers, though it's old stuff so everyone else has probably already formed an opinion.
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