by Charlaine Harris (304 pgs)
Rating: 3
Sookie Stackhouse is a waitress at a bar in rural Louisiana but she's also a telepath plagued by the constant awareness of everyone's thoughts. Vampires, however, as it turns out are telepathic blanks to her which is much better than knowing what people are thinking all the time and very attractive in a potential mate. Cue Bill the vampire.
Dead Until Dark is part of the new vampire romance/mystery genre. Lucky for us Harris is a decent writer. Sookie and Bill are both immediately interesting characters. The premise is, if not believable, pretty compelling and the mystery was pretty decent although there were not many opportunities for the reader to figure it out ahead of the character. Actually there was no way for the reader to figure it out first, so I would suggest reading this for the mystery aspect. I think the series has potential.
Recommended to people who like the Anita Blake series but got tired of the supernatural orgies.
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