Reviews tagging 'Death'

Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris

26 reviews

sup3r_xn0va_maya's review against another edition

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

4.0

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 stars out of 5 because I had a lot of fun with this read. 

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 4/5 Stars

I read this for free on Libbyapp.com

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Fatphobia, Rape, Incest, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Body horror, Gore, Sexual harassment, Animal cruelty, Bullying, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Alcohol, Kidnapping, Animal death, Blood, Murder, and Violence

vicblue's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Physical abuse

Moderate: Death, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Sexual assault, Alcohol, Child abuse, Death of parent, Drug use, Grief, Incest, Medical trauma, Pedophilia, and Physical abuse

martini666's review against another edition

adventurous sad fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Death

Moderate: Incest, Physical abuse, Alcohol, Animal death, Death of parent, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Pedophilia, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Misogyny, Alcohol, Emotional abuse, Medical content, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

serenephedra's review against another edition

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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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Incest, Racial slurs, Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Pedophilia, Death, Blood, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Physical abuse, Body shaming, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Gore, Grief, Rape, Sexual violence, Cancer, and Child abuse

nrogers_1030's review against another edition

dark emotional medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death of parent, Murder, Sexual content, Alcohol, Blood, and Death

Moderate: Animal death and Sexual harassment

Minor: Rape, Fire/Fire injury, Vomit, Torture, and Body horror

hyperashley's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Murder, Animal death, Sexual content, and Death

cheyenneleiani's review against another edition

lighthearted mysterious fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia, Alcohol, Incest, Murder, Hate crime, Sexual content, Death of parent, Death, and Animal death

amandajsmith's review against another edition

mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Death of parent, Death, Animal death, Racism, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Sexual content

Minor: Toxic relationship

jmeyers888's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual harassment, Torture, Animal death, Body horror, Gaslighting, Grief, Pedophilia, Incest, Murder, Physical abuse, Trafficking, Death, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Gore, Child abuse, Xenophobia, Stalking, Hate crime, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Toxic friendship, and Misogyny

Moderate: Classism, Death of parent, and Sexism

Minor: Car accident

megselyane's review against another edition

dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Murder, Death, Incest, Sexual harassment, Violence, Grief, Sexual assault, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Ableism, Death of parent, Classism, Racism, Incest, Stalking, Sexism, Sexual content, Drug use, and Adult/minor relationship

Minor: Pregnancy, Slavery, Fatphobia, Alcohol, and Body shaming