Dead Until Dark

Dead Until Dark- Charlaine Harris

I really don't understand why everyone is raving about it... I don't like the voice of the writer, and I don't like the heroine. She's just so dumb. (Going out to rescue a vampire from two bad people armed with nothing but a chain??? Stupidity! Her grandma was killed in the house because the killer wanted to kill her instead, yet she stayed in the house alone after her grandma has been killed??!!! How dumb is she??) And then there's the lack of emotions... The emotions were "told" by the writer, but just told like, a statement. Sookie is sad. You can see her being really sad tho. Yeah, she cried. However, you just don't feel that she is sad.

I have liked books with stupid heroines/writing if only there're lovable heroes, unfortunately, I didn't like Bill... Oh... Vampire BILL! =P (The name is terrible...)
I think Sam do have some potential but the stupid woman had to fall in love with Bill, so...

And about the plot... there's nothing special... Well, it's easy to read, no brain matter needed... and it didn't get really boring in the middle, but it has never been interesting/exciting anywhere in the book.

If you wanna read some fantasy books with vampires/werewolves, etc, pls read the Rachel Morgan series or the earlier Anita Blake series... The plots are better, the heroines are smarter and the heroes are much more interesting...

Don't waste your money on this one.