[vatkins22]

have any of yall read the Sookie Stackhouse series? I bought book one last night and I just CAN'T get into it yet. I think i'm about 75 pages in. i'm hoping it gets better, but so far... it's not my thing!

[Sunshine73]

My sister-in-law LOVES the Sookie Stackhouse series so I gave them a shot. I read the first one and, to be honest, I was not impressed at all. I wasn't engaged in the characters or the story so I haven't read any of the other books.

[jenn33082]

I'm on book 7. I really like them. I enjoy the humor of them. Occassionally they are a little too sexual for me but I can get past those parts. I find myself actually giggling while I read them sometimes, its not often that a book can do that.

[guamvixen]

My sister is really into them. She's read them over and over and is always there to buy the latest on release day. Me, however, not interested.

[stellarosa27]

I love these books. Love them. They're light, but still require you to think.

And I usually hate romance novels, but apparently if you throw vampires in there, I'm okay with it

[vatkins22]

I'm glad you used the word "light," because I felt there was somethin off about them. It was definitely that I was expecting something heavier and more drawm out. She cut right to the chase! Lol

[Krizstyling]

Is this the Southern Vampire Mysteries novels? Or is there a whole other complete set called Sookie Stackhouse that I had no idea about??

[kaplods]

I LOVE "weird world" fiction (most subgenres of fantasy and science fiction), and even read children's books in the genre, but I couldn't get into either the Twilight series or the Sookie Stackhouse books. I'm not exactly sure why.

[Shannon in ATL]

I like the Southern Vampire novels, but they are definitely are light reading. The later ones are not as entertaining as the early ones to me.

[Abbyew]

I love them... I started watching True Blood before reading the books so I kind of knew what to expect, which I think is what got me through the first book but after that I loved the books and Ive read all of them so far in one month!

[KawaiiCandie]

i heard that they are not at all like the tv show and that if you watch the show first, you wont like them cuz they are really "light" (stupid)... i have a friend who's really into them... i've never read them and, though i do like vampire stuff (i have read all the anne rice books!) i don't think it'd be my cup of tea... even the tv show left me kinda lukewarm...

[stellarosa27]

[QUOTE=KawaiiCandie;3580561]i heard that they are not at all like the tv show and that if you watch the show first, you wont like them cuz they are really "light" (stupid)... QUOTE]

I don't think that's true. The show is a bit "darker" but I think that's mostly because of the visuals. The first book and the first season are pretty similar, its after that they started to diverge a bit, but that's with anything Hollywood takes from a book.

I would definately put Twilight into the more "stupid" category, but that's b/c the main characters are teenagers and Sookie's a bit older.

[KawaiiCandie]

haha, well i'm just going with what i heard

on a side note, i did read and like twilight, but that's just because i have the brain of a 14y.o. .... (and i also read the first 3 books before it got made into a movie so there wasn't the whole "negative/stupid" stigma around them... *shrug*)

[audri8301]

I really enjoy these books, much more than I liked the Twilight series (can't deal with whiny Bella). As the others have said, they are light reading. That's perfect for me because I'm a lazy reader and am all about the fluff. LOL

[summershine]

I started reading the books cause I liked the TV series, but i really like the show much better :/

that being said i read all the books cause i hate not finishing a series and i like to know what to look forward to with the show