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The Sookie Stackhouse series/Southern Vampire Mysteries
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Dead Until Dark: Louisiana cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse can read minds, which makes people...uncomfortable. Then along comes Bill-and Sookie can't hear a word he's thinking. That's because Bill is a vampire who runs with other undead. So when one of her coworkers is killed, Sookie fears... read more
Books in This Collection
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Dead Until Dark
by Charlaine Harris (Author)Sookie Stackhouse is just a small-time cocktail waitress in small-town Louisiana. Until the vampire of her dreams walks into her life-and one of her coworkers checks out.... Maybe having a vampire for a boyfriend isn't such a bright idea. A...
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Living Dead in Dallas
by Charlaine Harris (Author)Cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse is on a streak of bad luck. First, her coworker is murdered and no one seems to care. Then she's face-to-face with a beastly creature that gives her a painful and poisonous lashing. Enter the vampires, who...
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Club Dead
by Charlaine Harris (Author)Suddenly, things aren't so great in the romance department for Sookie. Bill has become absorbed in something he's keeping secret from her, he has possibly become involved with someone else, and he's missing. Now Sookie must venture into the...
Summary edit
This volume contains three novels about the waitress Sookie Stackhouse and her vampire boyfriend Bill Compton. Vampires have recently been allowed to come out in the open, living on synthesized blood; the party line is that vampirism is a severe allergy to garlic and sunlight, but as some... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)
Characters edit
- Sookie Stackhouse: Lead protagonist and the storyteller. A rural Louisiana waitress whose telepathic ability has always caused her trouble, and had most of the locals thinking she is not quite right or touched in the head
- Bill Compton: Sookie's vampire lover
- Eric Northman: Vampire, Owner of Fangtasia, Sheriff of Area 5, Has an interest in Sookie
- Sam Merlotte: Sookie's boss and owner of Merlotte's bar.
- Alcide Herveaux: Sookie's werewolf friend.
Quotes edit
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“This was pretty exotic stuff for a telepathic barmaid from northern Louisiana.”
Sookie Stackhouse -
““Angelic Sookie, vision of love and beauty, I am prostrate that the wicked evil maenad violated your smooth and voluptuous body, in an attempt to deliver a message to me.””
Eric Northman -
““Sam was my boss, and starting something with your boss is always a bad idea. Starting something with your boss when your boyfriend is a vampire is another bad idea...””
Sookie Stackhouse -
““Don't worry about feeling guilty...something'll come along pretty soon that you'll feel guilty about. Save it up.””
Alcide Herveaux -
““Thank you, Eric." "How grateful are you?" he whispered, his mouth hovering over mine. "That kind of ruins it, when you say something like that. You shouldn't want me to have sex with you just because I owe you." "I don't really care why you have sex with me, as long as you do it.””
Sookie, Eric -
“The gray jacket was on the floor, the white shell was discarded, and my arms were locked around Bill's neck before you could say "Screw a vampire.”
Sookie Stackhouse -
“I might have to torture you, but I want to have sex with you; I need Bill, but I'm furious with him because he deceived me; I have to keep peace with Russell Edgington, but I have to get Bill back from him; Bill is my surf, but he's secretly working more for my boss.”
Eric Northman -
“Tomorrow night, sit with the Edginton crew and pick their brains, Sookie." "Well, that would never have occurred to me, Eric. Gosh, I'm glad you woke me up tonight to explain that to me." "No problem. Anytime you want me to wake you up, Sookie, you have only to say." "Go away, Eric.”
Eric, Sookie -
“What were you supposed to watch for?" "A big dark guy and a tall blond guy. With a blond woman, real young, with nice tits." "You are speaking of my future lover. Be more respectful.”
Eric, Robber -
“You offed Lorena?" "Sookie staked her. It was a fair kill." "Sookie killed Lorena in a fight?" Eric's grin grew even broader. "Very short fight.”
Eric, Bill, Sookie -
“They found the corpse in the closet of Alcide's apartment, and they hatched a plan to hide his remains." "My Sookie hid a corpse?" "I don't think you can be too sure about that possessive pronoun." "She is mine." I wondered if my hands would move. They would. I raised both of them making an unmistakable one-fingered gesture. "Sookie!" "I think that Sookie is telling us she belongs to herself.”
Eric, Bill
Setting & Locations edit
- Bon Temps, Louisiana
- Merlotte's: Owned by Sam Merlotte, is a popular local hangout for residents of Bon Temps, Louisiana. Bar Sookie works at.
- Shreveport, Louisiana
- Fangtasia: A popular vampire bar in Shreveport, Louisiana owned by Eric Northman, and, in part, by Pam and Chow. It was presumably opened after the Great Revelation and serves as a hangout for vampires, "Fangbangers" and tourist.
- Dallas, Texas
- Jackson, Mississippi
Organizations edit
- Fellowship of the Sun: A church whose main branch was based outside of Dallas, Texas. They preach a message of "coming from the darkness into the light", and are a leading voice in anti-vampire politics in America. What the Klan is to African Americans, the Fellowship of the Sun is to vampires.
First Sentence edit
I'd been waiting for the vampire for years when he walked into the bar.
Series & Lists edit
This book is in The Sookie Stackhouse series/Southern Vampire Mysteries. (standard series)
Authors & Contributors edit
- Charlaine Harris (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Science Fiction Book Club
Country: United States
Publication Date: 2003
ISBN: 978-0739434710
Page Count: 612
Publisher: Science Fiction Book Club
Country: United States
Publication Date: 2003
ISBN: 978-0739434710
Page Count: 612
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- True Blood (IMDb): TV Series
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