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Monday, November 2, 2009

Dead Until Dark (Charlaine Harris)


Sookie Stackhouse is a small-time cocktail waitress in small-town Louisiana. She's quiet, keeps to herself, and doesn't get out much. Not because she's not pretty. She is. It's just that, well, Sookie has this sort of "disability." She can read minds. And that doesn't make her too dateable. And then along comes Bill. He's tall, dark, handsome--and Sookie can't hear a word he's thinking. He's exactly the type of guy she's been waiting for all her life....

But Bill has a disability of his own: He's a vampire with a bad reputation. He hangs with a seriously creepy crowd, all suspected of --big surprise-- murder. And when one of Sookie's coworkers is killed, she fears she's next....

It took me a bit to truely get involved in this story. I guess I had to get used to the way this author writes...not bad but a little different. I did enjoy this story and look forward to reading the rest of the Southern Vampire Series.

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