Dead Until Dark (Sookie Stackhouse / Southern Vampire Mysteries, No. 1)
by Charlaine Harris
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Author: Charlaine HarrisEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2008-09-03
ISBN: 0441016995
Number of pages: 304
Publisher: Ace
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- ISBN13: 9780441016990
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Book Reviews of Dead Until Dark (Sookie Stackhouse / Southern Vampire Mysteries, No. 1)
Book Review: AUDIO REVIEW: 3 stars for reading, 1 star for story.
Summary: 2 Stars
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This is a review of the UNABRIDGED AUDIO VERSION read by Johanna Parker.
Johanna Parker has a great voice and does an excellent spunky southern gal accent. Unfortunately, she is horrible at doing men's voices. The way she does Bill's voice makes him sound like a husky, breathy pseudo-butch lesbian from the L-Word. I really could not get into Bill at all partially due to this reason, I had trouble even picturing him as a man, let alone a handsome one.
I could not get into the story. I only picked this up because I'm done with the Twilight series (I thought Breaking Dawn sucked by the way) and I had heard that the two were very similar, that Stephenie Meyer had stolen ideas from Charlaine Harris and I wanted to see for myself if it was true.
The story is narrated by the main female character, Sookie, just like in Twilight. Sookie is a 25 year old loner who works as a 'barmaid'. I put 'barmaid' in quotes because there is a HUGE FREAKING BIG DEAL made of the fact that she is a barmaid, she keeps announcing it every chapter. IM A BARMAID IM A A BARMAID IM A BARMAID! Jeez! Okay, Sookie! Relax, we get it, you're a barmaid!
So she immediately whines about her 'disability' because being able to read minds has made life SOOOO HAAAARD for her.
OH PLEASE GIVE ME A BREAK! If any one of us had the ability to read minds, we'd use those powers and become extremely rich and successful. Yeah some might consider it cheating but listen, if God gives you a gift, no advantage is unfair.
So after having to get over that hurdle of *suspension of disbelief* that anyone could exist who would be as stupid and as inept as to find mind reading a 'disability' and become a failure at life because of it, i gave our 25 year old virgin another chance and trudged on.
So she meets a vampire at the bar where she works. His name is Bill. OH AND GUESS WHAT? Sookie can't read Bills mind! isn't that something? (in Twilight, Edward can't read Bella's mind.) And then she has to save him because even though he's been alive since the Civil War he is much too stupid to realize that two hicks he just met at a bar might actually be out to trap him and drain his blood.
And then another bunch of stupidness happens that i can't even be bothered to remember. We meet Sookie's grandmother who is a typical SPUNKY AWESOME GRANDMOTHER WITH MODERN VIEWS AND THE KIND OF ASSERTIVENESS THAT ONLY AWESOME SPUNKY GRANDMOTHERS CAN GET AWAY WITH. and of course just as we are getting attached to her, she dies.
there are some ridiculous sex scenes that are pretty awful and repulsive.
an then... OH MY! A plot sort of drifts in. There is a serial murderer in Bon Temps!!! Oh my goodness, it might be a vampire! it might be after Sookie! it might be Bill! Wow... I might not care...
Maybe Southern women will enjoy this book more, I just could not get attracted to Bill. I rather wanted Sookie to end up with Sam who seemed much more intelligent and caring. (As it turns out, Sam is a SHAPESHIFTER THAT TURNS INTO ANIMALS!!!! Hello Stephenie Meyer and Jacob!)
So... Do I think Smeyer stole from Charris? Well there are a lot of similarities, the most obvious one being that both these authors chose to take the idea of 'vampire', mutilate it with their 'creativity' and serve it to us like a platter of cold refried beans.
But I'm going to give Smeyer the benefit of the doubt, it's not that hard to come up with stuff like *midreader* and *shapeshifter*.
Do I recommend Sookie Stackhouse to anyone? Ugh... No.
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Summary of Dead Until Dark (Sookie Stackhouse / Southern Vampire Mysteries, No. 1)
Visit our Sookie Stackhouse series feature page.
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.
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