Dead Until Dark: A Sookie Stackhouse Vampire Mystery - Charlaine Harris

Background: I was walking round the Library the other day, desperately looking for a new thrilling crime or adventure novel. The last few books I have read I had not enjoyed so I was very keen to find another good one that would stimulate me. Then I came across this one, so with no preconceptions it thought it would be worth a try. About this Author: Charlaine Harris was born in Arkansas in America in 1951. She has become over the past two decides a very successful writer. Having created very popular series of books, which include eight with the lead character of Aurora Teagarden, five with Lily Bard, three with Harper Dark and nine ...  Read the complete review

After watching the first series of HBO's hit vampire series, True Blood, and starting on the second I became aware of the fact that producer Alan Ball's source material was a series of books by New York Times bestseller Charlaine Harris. Known collectively as The Southern Vampire Mysteries, there are currently nine books published, but a tenth is due in May 2010. The first of this series was released in 2001 and titled "Dead Until Dark". I wish I had been aware of the Southern Vampire Mysteries before getting into True Blood, as personally I like to watch the original before any remake, so to speak. But after getting so addicted to the TV series I ...  Read the complete review

The first time I began to read this book, I promptly put it down after a couple of chapters, intending to try again at some point, but then completely forgetting. That was until reading a review on here about the book, and I found out that the book series had been turned into a tv series in the US (True Blood). I watched an episode online, and enjoyed it enough to want to pick the book up again. I finished it in a night. About the Author/other books in the series. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Charlaine Harris lives in Southern Arkansas with her husband and three children. I believe there are eight books in the series, with ...  Read the complete review

After watching the entire first series of "True blood" the latest vampire offering featured on the channel FX, and now just starting to be shown on channel 4, I was intrigued to read the books. The series in my opinion was ok, but not the best I have ever seen, so I was desperate to read the books to see if they were slightly better. My younger sister (sweetiepoppet), has also developed a real penchant for all things dark and vampy (thanks in part to me!), so I was delighted to hear that she had brought entire book collection and had already set aside the first two books for my perusal, god I love her! The book I will now review is - ...  Read the complete review

Recently, in bookshops all across the country, I have discovered a worrying new trend that has seemingly been invented for the next Mills N Boon generation; I am talking of course about the genre of Paranormal Romance. Laurell.K.Hamilton was one of the first writers to inspire this new phenomenon though when I started her books the first time they were published over here, this genre did not then exist. In actual fact, the first five or six Anita Blake novels were genuinely very good but then something happened. Sex happened. All the way through the books. Anita Blake became a nymphomaniac who only got her kicks having sexual relations with the supernatural collective ...  Read the complete review