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Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris

15 reviews

peachieko's review against another edition

funny mysterious fast-paced

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

4.0

Spoiler

I hate sam with a passion

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder

Moderate: Sexual content, Homophobia, and Racism

Minor: Rape

leazzz's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious medium-paced

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

3.5

Surprising how closely they followed this for the show 
Both Sookie and Bill are mildly infuriating 
I hate Jason 🫶🏻
For a vampire romance from 2001, insanely progressive 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Torture, Violence, Vomit, Homophobia, Sexual content, Child abuse, Incest, Pedophilia, and Sexual assault

honeyenbee's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Blood, Violence, Sexual violence, Murder, and Stalking

Moderate: Pedophilia and Grief

Minor: Incest, Racism, and Homophobia

avie_j's review against another edition

dark funny mysterious sad tense fast-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? No

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Sexual content, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Cursing, Fire/Fire injury, Hate crime, Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Gore, Blood, Sexual harassment, and Grief

Moderate: Racism, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Sexual violence, Sexism, Injury/Injury detail, Car accident, Classism, and Alcoholism

Minor: Child abuse

katte's review against another edition

adventurous funny informative 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? It's complicated

4.0

A fun romp, especially if you’ve seen the show. Don’t expect deep mystery or heavy emotions and you’ll likely be satisfied with this. First-person narrative isn’t usually my bag, but it worked, and made some of the cringier and uncomfortable terminology or biases showing through a little easier to accept, since it was filtered through a character’s mind. Perhaps this was intentional, perhaps it was happy accident - it was written in 2001, after all. My biggest beef with it was some of the dynamics between Sookie and Jason - siblings just don’t call each other “bro” and “sis” where I’m from. Maybe it’s different in the South!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Pedophilia, Violence, Child abuse, Animal death, and Murder

Moderate: Death of parent, Sexual content, and Incest

Minor: Racism, Mental illness, and Homophobia

ittybittyninja12's review against another edition

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? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

This one took me a second to finish,I think I was a tad bored because I've watched some of the show already. And honestly this is one of the times I like the show/movie better than the book. Not saying the book is bad but I feel like the show kept a lot from the book but added so much more on top of it. There's characters in the show that aren't in the book, and they just make it so much better. They feel much deeper in the show and put together. I did like hearing her thoughts and everything but now I can see how limiting it is, to see things just from her perspective. The romance is basically the same though. Also some of the terminology is a little too outdated. I know the show is as well but the book definitely is. So I was a tad uncomfortable at times. The show definitely updated from the books and I actually would recommend just watching the show. I'm not sure if I'll continue reading the books as it's a long series but maybe if I can't think of anything else to read I'll continue.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, Gore, Animal death, Murder, and Violence

Moderate: Sexism, Grief, Homophobia, Misogyny, and Racial slurs

erinandllama's review against another edition

emotional mysterious fast-paced

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

2.0

I was hoping the book might be better than the TV show, but it was far worst in almost every category.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief, Xenophobia, Misogyny, Violence, Blood, Religious bigotry, Pedophilia, Racism, Sexual content, Hate crime, Homophobia, and Incest

leslieteal's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny lighthearted mysterious tense 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? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Murder, Rape, and Animal death

Moderate: Homophobia and Racism

kes_kat's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

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

2.5

I was aggravated through half of this book. The main character, Sookie was okay, but everyone else was insufferable with their stupidity and problematic behavior. I hated every side character! 

The love interest, Bill is okay but can be misogynistic, racist, and "old fashioned" because he's an old vampire. I liked how Sookie wasn't afraid to call him out in his crap. 

I absolutely hated Sookies boss, Sam by the end of the book! He was the absolute worse, and his character was negatively developed in my opinion. 

The only reason I finished this book is because I enjoy murder mystery books, and vampire books. The murderer mystery part was not bad. I didn't guess the murderer, and it made sense once they were revealed.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Blood

Moderate: Animal death, Racism, Murder, and Death

Minor: Hate crime, Sexual harassment, Incest, Misogyny, and Homophobia

libraryofdoe's review against another edition

fast-paced

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

1.0

I have never hated a heroine more. As a fan of the show I’ve owned the full series of books for a few years now and finally planned to pick up and blitz through the series this year.

That will absolutely not be happening.

Sookie is vapid, self-centred, judgemental, slut-shaming, homophobic, fatphobic and the living embodiment of “I’m not like other girls”.

The sex scenes were uncomfortable, badly written, and some bordered on non-consensual where the author clearly imagined them as romantic.

The mystery was plotted sloppily. The writing was rushed and extremely derivative, reminding me of bad YA. This is absolutely the kind of book your extremely religious aunt would write and call “raunchy”.

If the plot intrigues you I implore you to just watch the show and skip this train wreck. If you read and enjoyed this I’m on my knees begging you to read good paranormal romance - it’s absolutely out there and this isn’t it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Fatphobia, Sexual content, Homophobia, Racism, and Racial slurs