Charlaine Harris: Dead Until Dark (***)

Written by Charlaine Harris Dead Until Dark is a modern fantasy book about supernatural creatures and humans. Sookie Stackhouse is the main character of this book and she has a 'disability' of hearing people's thoughts. There's also some romance and our co-star for Sookie is Bill Compton, a few hundred years old vampire that has returned to his roots.

In my opinion, there's a lot of Stephenie Meyer's Twilight influence in this book. There is a mind-reader and vampires, of course, but instead of a brooding vampire unable to hear the girl's thoughts it's the somewhat crybaby-waitress-girl unable to hear the brooding vampire's thoughts.

It took me some time to get interested in reading the story, but I think the reason for that is because I have seen the TV series already. While not all the happenings are the same in the book, there's a lot of things that didn't surprise me as I read. What disappointed me was the quickness of the book's climax. It was so near the end I was sure that the crime case in the story wouldn't be solved at all and when it did get solved it lasted only a few pages at most.

J. R. Ward: Dark Lover (***)

So I thought it was rather rude of me not to post a review about this book in English, since the original language of this book is in English.

As you probably notice the book cover is a little bit different from a Finnish translated one. I'm not sure that which one I like more... though I suppose it's not exactly relevant to the story itself.

Dark Lover is the first book in The Black Dagger Brotherhood book series and its author is J. R. Ward.

This books main characters are Beth Randall and the king of vampire society Wrath. The story revolves around their flaming romance and struggle against the bad guys who want to wipe out the vampires from existence.

The plot isn't exactly spectacular. The girl gets the guy and the guy gets the girl with some struggles and jealousy. Good prevails Evil. The book is rather cliché, but nonetheless quite entertaining. It's good for boredom and if you want some more detailed intercourse between the main characters this is definitely your book, though I wouldn't recommend this to anyone under 15 years old. The book contains quite a few profanities and, as I earlier mentioned, quite detailed sexual interactions.

Book started: 28th of May
Book finished: 28th of May