Honey and I thought we’d like the TrueBlood series on HBO but after watching a few episodes it didn’t seem to be our thing. Now that I’ve read the first 8 books I may have to check it out again for myself. If anyone out there has read the books and watches the series, let me know what you think.
The books are excellent reads. They didn’t make me cry like the Vampire Academy books did, but they did make me laugh quite a bit. I feel bad for Sookie a lot of the time with the things that happen to her. She’s just trying to use her gift (or curse) to help someone. I like the fact that even though she’s almost been killed several times she still continues to help the vampires and the Weres.
If you like a lot of action, puzzles or mysteries, you’ll enjoy trying to figure out who’s behind what, why someone did such and such and if you know people in the south you may even end up hearing the book in your head in a southern accent. Weird, I know, but it happens to me that way. I have truly started prefering books that are written in first person as well. I think it was great insight of Charlaine Harris to make Sookie a telepath so that you can find out what others are thinking. It’s got to be very hard to not have Sookie helping everyone and revealing everyone’s secrets and turning in those who are supposed to be lawful and aren’t.
I like Sookie. She’s one of my more favorite characters lately. I’m surprised that Charlaine hasn’t had her taking self defense classes with all the trouble that keeps coming after her. But then again, between work and crisis after crisis it would be kind of hard to work that into your schedule. So take the time to sit down and read the books, not just watch the series on HBO. You might get more insight by reading the books than watching the shows, as is normal.
It’s actually cheaper to buy the first 7 all together.
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