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Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris

33 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

Spoiler

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

braveprincess11's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

2.0

at first, I thought maybe I’d watch True Blood. then I got halfway through the book & went… “no, think it’s best if I don’t”

the same goes with reading the rest of the series. think it’s best if I don’t. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Blood, Violence, Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, and Animal death

Moderate: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Pedophilia, and Mental illness

Minor: Incest and Death of parent

Brief mention of necrophilia

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

caseyf's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious relaxing 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? No

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Sexism, Racism, Sexual assault, Animal death, Mental illness, and Sexual violence

Minor: Sexual content and Addiction

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

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

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

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

sonias's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.5

Sex scenes were a bit rapey sometimes, but the writing is quite addictive and I want to know more about the world

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Sexual violence

avie_j's review

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