I started watching True Blood before I realized it was based on a series. This series isn't going to solve the problems of the world or even make me think of the world in a different way, but it is damn entertaining and helps me forget about the drudgery and toil of day to day life. It's a true escape ( )

I'm a big fan of True Blood and I just can't help comparing Living Dead in Dallas to season 2 of the show. While I enjoyed the book, it was so very different from the show. Normally that would be okay, but the show was more entertaining than this particular book. I really wish I had read the book before the show began so that I wouldn't have had it in the back of my mind while reading. ( )

It was ok the first one had too much sex for my tastes and this one didn't have as much or so I thought till I got to the last 25 pages and realized she saved it all up and really slammed you with it.
This series does make you want to keep reading just to see what other supernatural beings pop up

The worst part of the book is the sex and sometimes her writing is not very good she's definitely not a lets describe everything sort of writer and sometimes that leaves you a bit confused as to what's going on.
I feel these books aren’t as good as all the hype around them.

The jury is still out although I am reading the next book ( )

An improvement over the first book, although perhaps it just felt that way since I have yet to watch the second season of True Blood. Sookie must simultaneously confront that Bill is not human and that the supernatural world is far larger than she imagined. The dialogue is just as funny as the first, and the plot is more complex. ( )

The sequel to Dead Until Dark (and the 2nd in the Sookie Stackhouse mysteries) is a rare book that is actually better than the first book. Dead Until Dark introduced us to a world where vampires have "come out of the coffin" and are able to live off of synthetic blood rather than killing human prey. Telepathic waitress Sookie Stackhouse, takes a vampire lover, Bill, and deals with the consequences of inter-eh?-species dating.

In this sequel, the consequences are much more dire for Sookie, who is summoned by some vampires in Dallas to use her mind-reading skills to find out where a missing vampire went. The revelations lead her to the Fellowship of the Sun, a "church" (more like a cult--and a not-so-veiled critique of American Christian fundamentalism) that is dedicated to wiping vampires--seen as abominations--from the face of the earth. This subplot is fascinating and surprisingly violent.

I will say that I do enjoy a heroine who is a fighter, and Sookie is definitely a fighter. In both the first and second book she is faced against people who are intent on killing her and, dammit, she won't die.

So although I was not very impressed with Dead Until Dark, I was captivated by Living Dead in Dallas and...for better or for worse...I think I'm on board for the rest of the Sookie Stackhouse books. ( )