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Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris

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izzykai's review

dark funny mysterious fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

Murder mystery, vampires, romance, sexual tension, danger.. what's not to like? It wasn't perfect but it was a fun and easy read.

Warning: 🔥medium spicy!🔥

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tarathompson1228's review

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adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

I'm excited that this seems to be a new comfort series for me.

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lilianmathilda's review against another edition

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dark funny mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.25

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slewis0905's review

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adventurous mysterious medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

I read this series in high school and absolutely loved it. Coming back a decade later was interesting. This book is from the early 2000s and it shows. There is a lot of slut shaming and the community is racist (not just against vampires).
It was entertaining still, but not as entertaining as I found it in high school.

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thegazillionthreader's review

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adventurous dark funny mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

My thoughts… a bit jumbled because I’m typing this tired at 3 AM

3.5 stars or 4? 🤔

I watched True Blood at the beginning of this year, and I had a love hate relationship with it of sorts, and it may end up being the same with the books, we shall see. I liked the storyline of True Blood, but the vampires upset me often, especially towards the last seasons. But it was cool to be back in the world (even though I did it backwards lol) It was easy to picture the characters and even hear them.
This first book I did like, I think the show followed it fairly well first season. TV Bill was a bit different than Book Bill I feel like. In the book, I did not appreciate one comment he made and then the graveyard sex scene in the book…
But there were other times I did like him in the book.
I will definitely be continuing the series and am excited to see where it goes, I’ve heard the show kinda changed away from the books after the first season. Plus I’m in my vampire phase.

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oncasette's review against another edition

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mysterious fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

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marmsies's review

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lighthearted mysterious medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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sup3r_xn0va_maya's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

Dead Until Dark is the first book in the Sookie Stackhouse series by Charlaine Harris. The Sookie Stackhouse series is also the inspiration for the HBO show, True Blood. Dead Until Dark was a good introduction and first book in the series, I really enjoyed the journey.

Sookie Stackhouse is a waitress in a small town in Louisiana and she's always wanted to meet a vampire because in this world vampires have been exposed and humans and vampires have been trying to co habituate together. Sookie meets her first vampire in Bill, a (confederate) civil war era vampire. Bill is quite taken with Sookie and she is equally taken with him.

I don't like that Sookie's grandma was so excited

to have a confederate speak to her descendants club. Ya'll know they were fighting to keep slavery a thing, right?

I think this was one of the only things I really disliked about the novel.

There's a murder mystery mingled in with some paranormal romance and I really enjoyed this book. It was gory, sexy, mysterious, and entertaining. I'm giving this 4.5 stars out of 5 because I had a lot of fun with this read.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 4.5/5 Stars

I read this for free on Libbyapp.com

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caitcosentino's review against another edition

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dark funny mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No

3.75

Bill stinks. What is the appeal?

Good read for spooky season

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serenephedra's review against another edition

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dark lighthearted mysterious fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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