If you are an adult and liked the Twlight series, you will LOVE the Sookie Stackhouse series. Stookie is a human with a special gift – she can read minds. So when Bill Compton, vampire, walked in it was a breath of fresh air to hear complete silence as she can’t hear vampire’s thoughts.This beings her love affair with supernaturals or “supes” as they are called in the Sookie Stackhouse series. Vampires have come out of the closet so to speak in this book series and are not trying to hide their identity like in other series.
The series is part comedy, part mystery, and lots of fantasy. It is an addicting book series, which I read all the books which have been released in about a 10 day period. Yeah, 9 books in 10 days. Once I got started I could.not.stop. There wasn’t much blogging going on during that period and MANY late nights. The books are not as long as the Twlight books but they are packed full of many interesting characters, which Charlaine Harris develops to their fullest extend.
The newest book doesn’t come out until 2010 and I’m already on pins and needles waiting for its release. If you do start this series, make sure you have plenty of spare time during that period or take a leave from work. I’m warning you, these books are addicting as vampires need blood!
If you love the books, you may also be interested in the True Blood series, an HBO original series based on these novels. True Blood Season one stayed pretty true to the book series, have excellent acting, and great effects. You won’t be disappointed in this series like I was with the Twlight movie. Do note, that the series is not appropriate for children and probably not appropriate for many adults as it is very naughty.
True Blood Season Two is a little strange and doesn’t follow the book series as much as the first season. I was also a little disappointed when they introduced the Queen and she was nothing like I pictured her to be. Personally, I usually prefer the books over the movie/television show if I have a chance. True Blood is a good series but it doesn’t follow the book exactly. Which is good and bad. Good if you’ve read the books, you can still be surprised in the series. Bad if you really prefer the scenarios in the book over the show.
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I love the Sookie books! I too read all 9 in 3 weeks as I had to wait for my library to get them in! I am going to order it for christmas for myself when I save up enough Amazon gift cards! You reminded me too, I started a blog post about it and forgot about it! I can’t believe too we have to wait like a whole year because True Blood is on again! I know I thought the queen would be 15 like the book, but then they couldn’t really have her seducing the older vampires I guess!
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My granddaughter has every Twilight book as soon as it comes out.
This would be a fantastic addition for her to read. While she is reading those…maybe I can talk her into letting me borrow her Twilight books and then trade off. Or, I could read the Sookie Stackhouse Series first and then trade with her.
Thank you so much, Ciara. It means a lot knnwiog you enjoy my books. Fritz is such a larger than life character–no pun intended.
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I love the Sookie Stackhouse series. I am also a fan of the Harper Connelly series also by Charlaine Harris, which is about a young woman who has the ability to find the dead after being struck by lightning.
I also highly recommend listening to the Sookie Stackhouse audiobooks narrated by Johanna Parker. FANTASTIC. She is one of the best narrators I have ever had the pleasure of listening to.
As for True Blood, I find it frustrating. They are jumping around a lot and it seems they rushing things that haven’t happen yet, and totally changing characters. Stan is a cowboy? Sorry Alan Ball, he was supposed to be a sexy nerd.
I HATE Anna Paquin as Sookie, I find her beyond annoying. Surprisingly my favorite character, Lafayette is barely mentioned in the books and I am glad they kept him. He makes the show worth watching in my opinion.
Alexander Saarsgard is very pretty to look at, but he certainly isn’t the Viking I imagined Erik to be. They also portrayed Barry the Bellboy as a cowardly douchebag, which also annoyed me, as he was also another of my favorites from the books.
I also adored how Godric was portrayed. Not disappointed at all, I think the actor nailed exactly sorrowful and remorseful this beautiful vampire was for the destruction he had caused humans.
As for Sophie Ann, Evan Rachel Wood is not what I expected when I pictured the Vampire Queen, however I decided I liked her anyway.
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If fantasy and science fiction is your preference, you may not be interested. However I love the books written by Kathy Riechs. She is a Dr of forensic anthropology. Her books are based on her case files. Her books are about a Dr. Temperance Brennan. Now if that name sounds familiar, you may be a fan of the television show on the Fox Network “BONES”. She is a writer for that show as well. Dr. Temperance Brennan on the TV show does the same work as Dr. Temperance Brennan in the series of books. The difference is more than that.
Their work place is different. Book Tempe is my age…about 50 or a little younger. She is married, but has been separated for many years. She has a daughter that is around college age when the series first began. She works here in the United States, a professor at the University of North Carolina and she works for the medical examiners office here….6 months of the year. She also works in the Providence of Ontario Canada …same job there. I am not going to give you the entire name. You know French and all. But she is awesome. Oh and her on again off again boy friend/ Partner from Canada is Detective Andrew Ryan…Sort of super tan and rugged with beautiful blue eyes….
Sort of a really cool romance…So if you are my age, you get a love story mixed in with a mystery …
Just saying…
Then there is Diane Chamberlain and her novels. They are not all a series although she has at least one trilogy. She loves the coastal areas of North Carolina as well and introduces them to her readers.
Of course I have never had a reaction to a series of books like the Twilight books.
Well not since I am all grown up..When I was in grade school, the Laura Ingals Wilder”Little House” books had the same affect on me. I can remember when I was in the 4th grade and made a D in Geography because it followed reading. I would still be reading long after we were suppose to be doing geography. First time I got grounded..lol
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