Dead Until Dark by Charlaine HarrisMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
Following the development of 'Tru Blood' - a synthetic form of human blood in handy bottled form - vampires have 'come out of the coffin'. Some are attempting to live alongside human communities as mainstreamers, others stick to their more traditional ways feeding off the 'fang bangers' - vampire groupies who offer themselves as a living food supply. One mainstreamer is Bill Compton, an undead veteran of the American civil war, who returns to reclaim his family home in Bon Temps, a backwater Louisiana town where he catches the eye of waitress and telepath Sookie Stackhouse. Is it just a coincidence that women who have liaisons with vampires are now turning up dead in mysterious circumstances?
This book formed the source material for the tv adaptation and, quite unusually as these things go, the tv version added to the original rather than being a cut down copy. Several of the most interesting characters on tv only make fleeting appearances in the novel, or are missing completely. The book is an enjoyable read, but I think that I'll wait for the tv series versions of future books.
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