Vampires suggest horror but the underlying humor makes this anything but. The humor is continuing element that complicates the classification of this novel. Hamilton’s vampire is Jean-Claude and Anne Rice has Lestat, Vittorio and Armand. “The vampire Bill! I thought it might be Antoine, or Basil, or Langford! Bill!” I’m Sookie Stackhouse, and I’m a waitress.” I told him. He seemed to be going through a list of possibilities in his head from the way he was looking at me. Sookie manages to save the vampire from a dangerous situation while perplexing him with her response to his supposed mesmerizing abilities. Though Sookie figures she’s due a vampire customer as a kind of reward for her loneliness, the one she gets becomes so much more.īy page twelve my smile had turned into a laugh. If she doesn’t work at blocking them out, she can hear the thoughts of every person who comes into the bar, which makes her appear just a little crazy to all the regulars. Part of Sookie’s desire for her own vampire comes from her “disability,” as she likes to call it. Unfortunately, few of them feel the urge to visit a small town in rural northern Louisiana.

So with smile in place, the reader opens to book and meets the very appealing Sookie Stackhouse, who has always longed for a vampire to visit the bar where she works. Usually, if I have a long list of things I want to point out, they generally have to do with the problems in a book. This crossover book is appealing on a variety of levels, which makes for a very nice change. An unread Dead Until Dark is a smile waiting to happen.

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