A review by emmarj
Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris
4.0
I feel like my opinion doesn't really count here.
1. I watched the show first. The show is pretty sweet, obviously.
2. Southern accents and southern culture doesn't irritate me or strike me as being uneducated or stupid or whatever it is that people assume. I'm from the south myself.
3. I listened to this via audiobook and the narration was amazing.
This story is short and light, something fun to read on the beach. I'm a childhood Anne Rice fan but still I appreciated Harris's attempts at explanation and justification of the existence and culture of vampires. It was new and refreshing to me.
So Sookie is a little vapid, a lot naive. I found it believable, however, and it didn't bother me. I don't know where people get this idea that disliking the main character of a story makes that story bad. Some of my favorite books feature main characters that I despise. That's a rant for a different day, though.
Overall, a good time. I look forward to the next book.
1. I watched the show first. The show is pretty sweet, obviously.
2. Southern accents and southern culture doesn't irritate me or strike me as being uneducated or stupid or whatever it is that people assume. I'm from the south myself.
3. I listened to this via audiobook and the narration was amazing.
This story is short and light, something fun to read on the beach. I'm a childhood Anne Rice fan but still I appreciated Harris's attempts at explanation and justification of the existence and culture of vampires. It was new and refreshing to me.
So Sookie is a little vapid, a lot naive. I found it believable, however, and it didn't bother me. I don't know where people get this idea that disliking the main character of a story makes that story bad. Some of my favorite books feature main characters that I despise. That's a rant for a different day, though.
Overall, a good time. I look forward to the next book.