True+Blood

**Dead until dark**
 * True Blood**

**Intro:** True Blood is a series of books and the first book in the collection Dead until dark. Charlaine Harris is the successfull author behind this New York times bestseller, which is having a big success on the TV-screens as well.

The director of the HBO series six feet under, Alan Ball, found his interest in this "southern vampire mysteries", so from 2008 HBO has been sending "True Blood" with Alan Ball as the creator and producer, and so far they have produced 3 seasons with 36 episodes in total. You can also watch "True Blood" on Canal +, or nrk3.

True Blood is one of the many Vampire books these days, but it still stands out of the crowd in a few ways. The biggest difference is, that in the beginning of the book, the vampires already has been" out of the coffin" for a few years. When the Japanese developed synthetic blood, the vampires could drink this blood instead of human blood, and they could finally reveal their existence. This type of blood was called "tru blood".

Chapter 1
In the beginning of chapter 1, we meet Sookie Stackhouse, the main character and also the narrator of the book.

She is a good looking waitress, from the small town Bon Temps in Louisiana. Sookie has been waiting for a vampire to come to the town ever since she knew they existed, which she found out about four years ago. The reason that she has been looking forward to it so much is probably because she is not quite normal her self. She is a mind reader. The first vampire she had ever seen walked into the bar where she worked, and this was the start of the book. She was fascinated by his look in a good way, and tried to read his mind. But when she did not hear his thoughts she was even more fascinated then before.

In the end of this chapter Sookie invites Bill to her house since her granmother wants to ask him about the war, and also try to hook them up.

In chapter 2 Bill was invited to Sookie and her granmothers huse for the first time (as you probably know, vampires has to be intvited in, before they can make their entrance to the house). Sookie's granmother, wich she refers to as Gran, and Bill had a long conversation about "the old times", before Bill and sookie went out for a walk. This walk lasts for a long time, and we are really getting to know both of them. At the end of the walk they kissed, said goodnight and Bill invited Sookie home to his place the day after. And since Sookie could not stay away from him she took up on his offer, and she went for a visit. But when she came over he already had visitors; three, hungry vampires...
 * Chapter 2 **

Bill and Sookie managed to save sookie from getting bitten by any of the vampires, but this whole happening set a stuck to their relationship, and they did not see eachother for days after this. Meanwhile it was happening a few murders in Bon Temps, and the things the victims had in common, was that they both had slept with Sookie's brother and had been bitten by a vampire. Therefore, Sookie wanted Bill to bring her to the vampire bar "Fangtasia" to look for the guilty vampire to acquit her brother from being arrested of murder.
 * Chapter 3 and 4**

Sookie's grandmother had invited Bill to come talk about the civil war for those who wanted to come listen and ask him about the war, and their family. Sookie and Bill had had a fight a few nights before the meeting, so her boss Sam had asked her to be his date, and in her aggression against bill, she answered yes. But after the meeting, and a cup of coofee later she was driven home by Sam. He drove away right after they had said goodbye, and when she came inside her house, she found her grandmother lying dead on the floor...
 * Chapter 5**