Dead Until Dark (Sookie Stackhouse #1)
Charlaine Harris
Ace Books: 2001, 292 pages
Reviewed by Kelci Bozada
Sookie Stackhouse seems like your average, small-town
waitress in Bon Temps, Louisiana. Except she’s definitely not
average. Sookie can read people’s minds, something she’s been able to do
for years but keeps it to herself. All she wants is a little quiet, but
knows she can’t date anyone whose thoughts she can hear. Then comes along
Bill Compton. Bill is a vampire in a town where people are very wary of
his kind, all except Sookie. As Sookie starts to fall for Bill, a string
of murders plagues the town and Bill seems like the prime suspect. Can
Sookie find out who the murderer is before she becomes the next victim?