Dead Until Dark (Sookie Stackhouse, Book 1)
by Charlaine Harris
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Author: Charlaine HarrisEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Published)
Format: Bargain Price
Published: 2009-07-07
ISBN: N/A
Number of pages: 336
Publisher: Ace Trade
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Book Review: Unlike HBO show, True Blood book geared for Tweens
Summary: 3 Stars
Dead Until Dark (Sookie Stackhouse, Book 1) is the debut novel of the series from which True Blood: The Complete First Season (HBO Series) was born. I picked up a box set of the series as a gift for my wife, though we're both fans of the show. There is a major difference in the tone of the show and the book. The show is clearly for adult audiences and wildly inappropriate for a younger audience. The books were tailor-made for the 12-14 set that has outgrown Hannah Montana.
Both are about Sookie Stackhouse, a waitress and (sometimes) vampire lover in a small town two hours from New Orleans. But where the series is plot-driven with strong messages of tolerance for gays and other minorities, Dead Until Dark (Sookie Stackhouse, Book 1) is at heart a young adult romance in which you get to know the female protagonist more intimately than the Sookie of HBO. Girls who have little or no interest in vampires will adore the book because they can relate to Sookie's outsider status as an insecure-but-special girl in an unfamiliar world.
Open-minded adult readers probably will enjoy the series as well, but the prose can be a bit dull as the author writes with a vocabulary appropriate for its target middle school/junior high audience. Those preferring adult vampire novels should Anne Rice--Charlaine Harris's youth fiction is a genre unto itself. Warning: Parents thinking about buying the series, don't gift this to the kids if you're uncomfortable with brief sex scenes, violence or innuendo. There's far more yearning than bedding in Book 1. The content is easily more graphic on the small screen than in Dead Until Dark (Sookie Stackhouse, Book 1). Mature teens should handle it well, adult readers who are fans of the show may be disappointed.
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Sookie Stackhouse is just a small-time cocktail waitress in small-town Louisiana. Until the vampire of her dreams walks into her life-and one of her coworkers checks out....Maybe having a vampire for a boyfriend isn't such a bright idea.Horror Books
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