So I moved on to the Sookie Stackhouse vampire novels. Seriously, I am obsessed with vampires this year. It's kinda going out of style for the rest of the world, but I am in it full-fledged right now.
The first Sookie Stackhouse book is "Dead Until Dark."
Honestly, I had a really hard time getting into this one just because the writing is so cheesy and choppy, and it didn't get interesting till half-way through. It did manage to hold my attention enough to want to keep reading and to actually want to find out what happens in the rest of the books! I just have to ignore the writing style and chopped off sentence. And book two, "Living Dead in Dallas" was definitely better. I still find it hard to believe that all of a sudden, this innocent Southern girl, Sookie, is involved in all this crazy vampire and supernatural drama. It's a little far-fetched, but also incredibly entertaining to read. In conclusion, the first novel was hard to get through, but now I'm hooked and am going to have to continue on Sookie's journey with her.
The HBO series, True Blood, is supposed to be based on the Sookie Stackhouse novels, but that is a very loosed "based on."
Only some of the story line actually translates to the TV show, and Sookie is much more annoying on the show than in the book. However, it is also very captivating and it is satisfying my vampire lust at the moment. I started to watch this show when it first came out, but I must have only watched a few episodes because half of the stuff I DO NOT remember. Like how when the vampires die they turn into a disgusting pile of stringy goo and globby blood. I think that's actually why I stopped watching it, because it was so gory. What's changed now? I don't know, because it's still pretty gross. Maybe it's because I'm just actually more into the whole vampire thing right now.
I think I'm going to have to be a vampire for Halloween this year.
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