Southern Vampires - True Blood

This summer for Christmas I got the first three books of the Sookie Stackhouse Southern Vampire series also known as True Blood. You know True blood that TV show on HBO where there is always a sex scene and dropping the F Bomb like its going out of fashion? So I read them and then I finished reading what is left of the series.

Now... hmm...

After reading the Twilight series two years ago I was a bit over vampires. They always follow the same format. Human Girl falls in love with an Immortal vampire who does not like the fact he's a vampire, then someone comes and there is a love triangle and some blood shed and presto changeo the story is finished.

It's a bit like TV family Sitcoms having a man marrying a woman that in real life would never look twice at him and they have three children. Normally the oldest is extremely stupid, a girl that has guys chasing after her and the youngest which is a little quirky.

The True Blood books are in some respects better than Twilight - if only for the fact the story isn't based around an emo teenage bitch called Bella and her stalker boyfriend Edward. The True Blood books kind of stay with the same kind of mythos with vampires that we have seen over the years.

Silver burns.
Sunlight practically sets them on fire (your kidding they dont glitter like vampires with gay pride?)
Fire is fatal
And to kill a vamp all you have to do is stake them.

Sure Sookie is a massive MarySue but I don't think that is really a problem. Lets think of this rationally, you don't read books on Supernatural aspects for their reality factor. It's something I have argued with Harry Potter fans and fans of every Supernatural/Paranormal/Fantasy books tv shows and movies.

What this Book series does is give an escape from reality. They are extremely easy to read (read all 9 books with in a week and a bit). But you can tell from about the third book that the author was just making this up as it went along. I don't think the author ever expected that her books would be wanted to be extended as much as they were.

The author also introduces a crazy amount of characters that all have similar spelling names, and they don't have a real relevance to the story. Books like Harry Potter have a ton of characters however the difference is that the Harry Potter books are really based around the three main characters. I guess you kinda write yourself into a hole when your main characters love interest only comes out at night.

Also the dialog is a bit strange. I know I mentioned before hand how it doesn't need to be 100% realistic but the conversation didn't flow.

So in conclusion, its a fantastic read for those Hot Summer nights when you have nothing else to do and while your boycotting Channel 10 because they pulled Supernatural off the air. But it isn't like Harry Potter which will stand up to the test of time.