Review Quotes Praise for #1 New York Times bestselling author Charlaine Harris's Sookie Stackhouse novels 'It's the kind of book you look forward to reading before you go to bed, thinking you're only going to read one chapter, and then you end up reading seven.'-Alan Ball, executive producer of True Blood 'Vivid, subtle, and funny in her portrayal of southern life.'- Entertainment Weekly 'Charlaine Harris has vividly imagined telepathic barmaid Sookie Stackhouse and her small-town Louisiana milieu, where humans, vampires, shapeshifters, and other sentient critters live.Her mash-up of genres is delightful, taking elements from mysteries, horror stories, and romances.'- Milwaukee Journal Sentinel 'The series continues to be inventive and funny with an engaging, smart, and sexy heroine.'- The Denver Post 'Blending action, romance, and comedy, Harris has created a fully functioning world so very close to our own, except, of course, for the vamps and other supernatural creatures.'- The Toronto StarĪbout The Author Charlaine Harris is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Sookie Stackhouse and Midnight, Texas, fantasy/mystery series and the Aurora Teagarden, Harper Connelly, and Lily Bard mystery series. And when a string of murders hits Bon Temps-along with a gang of truly nasty bloodsuckers looking for Bill-Sookie starts to wonder if having a vampire for a boyfriend is such a bright idea. But Bill has a disability of his own: he's a vampire with a bad reputation. He's exactly the type of guy she's been waiting for all her life.

He's tall, dark, handsome-and Sookie can't hear a word he's thinking. She's quiet, doesn't get out much, and tends to mind her own business-except when it comes to her 'disability.' Sookie can read minds. Sookie Stackhouse is just a small-time cocktail waitress in small-town Bon Temps, Louisiana. When one of Sookie's coworkers is killed, she fears she's next.īook Synopsis Sink your teeth into the first novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling Sookie Stackhouse series-the books that gave life to the Dead and inspired the HBO(R) original series True Blood. He's the type of guy she's waited for all of her life, but he has a disability, too-he's a vampire with a bad reputation.

When she meets Bill, Sookie can't hear a word he's thinking. About the Book Sookie Stackhouse is a cocktail waitress in small-town Louisiana, but she keeps to herself and doesn't date much because of her 'disability' to read minds.

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