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True Blood Season 1 and Season 2

Submitted by ardith on Fri, 2010-06-11 15:09
True Blood, based on the Southern Vampire Mystery/Sookie Stackhouse novels, fulfills my love for campy vampire joy. As many people have noted, True Blood is an anti-Twilight. Sex abounds, but it's great because of the characters.

With actors like Anna Paquin and Nelsan Ellis, the series is just so fun to watch. The series looks to be following the trajectory of one book per season. The 10th novel was just released. I'm not sure if the tv series will get as high as that, but I enjoyed how the characters have grown and changed with each book.

The show balances horror, humor, and camp in one of the most entertaining series around. Twitter lights up with #trublood posts as soon as an episode stars airing. I really can't help but enjoy the fun.

The third series will introduce new characters, expanding the shifters (werewolves, etc.). And of course, the delicious Alexander Skarsgård exudes hot vampire sexiness as Eric. He's my favorite part of the series.

Dead & Gone

Submitted by ardith on Sun, 2009-06-21 16:15
Urban Fantasy has been serious business for the past few years. Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake series was one of my favorite until I just stopped reading due to lack of character development. I also enjoyed MaryJanice Davidson's Queen Betsy series until i just stopped reading. Maybe I'm fickle, but I think some series just run out of steam.

Of course, there are some that just are coming to a head. I highly recommend Patricia Brigg's Mercy Thompson books as well as her Alpha and Omega series that is set in the same world.

And I recommend the Southern Vampire Mystery books, AKA Sookie Stackhouse novels. Told from Sookie Stackhouse's point of view (first person), the novels are funny, scary, and full of life.

And yes, these are the novels that the HBO series, TrueBlood, is based on.

Previous to these books, the only time I've heard the name "Sookie" was from Witches of Eastwick. Apparently, it's a form of Susanna. This Sookie has telepathic powers. She has spent her life bombarded with other people's (sometimes inappropriate) thoughts. But when she meets a vampire called Bill Compton, she realizes that there is a blessed silence with him. Sookie can't read vampire thoughts.

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