Charlaine Harris’s Sookie Stackhouse series is one of the most popular urban fantasy series around, with thirteen books, numerous short stories, and a hit television series on HBO. And it all began with 2001’s Dead Until Dark.
“I’d been waiting for the vampire for years when he walked into the bar.”
With this opening line, we are ushered in the world of Bon Temps, a small town in rural Louisiana. Our heroine, Sookie Stackhouse, lives with her grandmother in their old family home, and is a waitress at the local bar, Merlotte’s. Make that a telepathic waitress.
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