Sam, the owner of Merlotte’s, asks Sookie to help him with a waitress who didn’t show up for work. Afterward, Sookie takes a break from seeing Bill because she needs time to decide if she wants a relationship with a vampire in general or just with him specifically. However, Bill prevents them from biting her by saying she belongs with him. The fans are wilder than Bill is they even try to bite her. She finds that he’s entertaining other vampires and some of their fans (people who allow the vampires to drink their blood). The next day, Sookie visits Bill’s house to talk to him about what happened. Bill wants to settle down again and have a home of his own. While they’re walking together, Sookie learns that she cannot be glamoured by vampires it’s a skill all vampires possess. Sookie tells Adele about Bill, and Adele invites him to speak at her club.

This makes the people suspicious and angry at vampires including Bill, but they’re not the only suspects since Jason also had sexual relationships with them before their deaths. Stranger still, each was connected to vampires in some way. All the victims were young women who were strangled to death. Meanwhile, the people of Bon Temps are experiencing a string of murders. She realizes that she cannot read vampires’ minds when they are close to her, so she asks Bill for some of his blood in order to heal quickly from her wounds. Sookie saves him by killing the attackers. One night, a vampire named Bill comes into the bar and talks to Sookie because he has never met a human before.Īs Bill leaves Merlotte’s, a couple attacks him and steals his blood. She is content with her life, but she wants to meet someone who will make her feel less lonely. However, others think she’s crazy for avoiding them. Telepathy makes it difficult to interact with other people, so she does her best to avoid that.

She has no boyfriend and did not attend college because of telepathy. Sookie Stackhouse is a 25-year-old woman living in Bon Temps, Louisiana with her grandmother. She now lives with two rescue dogs near Austin, Texas. Harris has written more than forty novels since her first book came out in 1980 she started writing poetry as an undergrad at Texas A&M University before turning to plays and short stories after graduation. The book was adapted into HBO’s television series True Blood, which has been running for seven seasons and counting. It takes place in a world where vampires are commonplace and follows the story of Sookie Stackhouse, who begins dating Bill Compton while another vampire stalks their small Louisiana town. Published in 2001, Dead Until Dark is a paranormal fantasy novel by Charlaine Harris. 1-Page Summary of Dead Until Dark Overall Summary

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