Tag: True Blood

Club Dead

Sookie Stackhouse's innocent abroad schtick was getting slightly on the nose, so I wrote an open letter to her based on the events of Club Dead. Bear with me, and try to forgive me for writing to a fictional character:

Living Dead in Dallas

 

Sookie Stackhouse returns for round two, and Charlaine Harris decides that one story isn't enough: she needs to nestle a second one inside the first, like some sort of weird matryoshka doll of bizarre pacing choices.

Dead Until Dark

 

Vampires! They’re goddamn everywhere! When they look back on the start of the 21st century, will they wonder what we were thinking, or will there be no fiction without vampires?

 

Of course, not all vampires are born equal. There are some that are unreadable, and there are those that offer themselves to you with no real challenge: vampires on cruise control. The Sookie Stackhouse novels (AKA the Southern Vampire Mysteries), which became the TV series True Blood, is one such vampire series; easy enough to read without causing much concern, but also without approaching greatness in any capacity.