Sookie comes across as vapid at best, completely self-absorbed and irritating at worst. I’ll be honest: I nearly DNF’d Dead Until Dark at the bottom of the first page. So when Sookie got a call from Sam asking her to go and check on fellow waitress Dawn, I had no idea that Sookie was about to find Dawn dead – the second in a series of spree killings which would rock Bon Temps to the core. Things I couldn’t remember: basically everything else. Oh, and Lafayette the chef! I love Lafayette in the TV show (R.I.P. There’s also a sexy bar owner called Eric, who’s another vampire. Sam, her boss, is so in love with her that she can’t see it (but everyone else can). Her boyfriend is Bill, the new vampire in town. Her brother Jason is extremely good looking and sleeps with everything that moves. Things I could remember: there’s a girl called Sookie Stackhouse who’s a waitress and a telepath. That being said, I hardly remember anything about the True Blood TV series – I consumed it in the space of about two weeks while pulling all-nighters studying for my A Levels – so I went into Dead Until Dark pretty blind. It’s one of the only times I’ve caved and watched the adaptation before reading the source material. I’ve been interested in reading the Southern Vampire Mysteries series for a long time.
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