Sookie Stackhouse Series (Southern Vampire Series) Review

I recently purchased the Sookie Stackhouse book set 1-7 because I had heard that there was a series on HBO about them. I wanted to see the shows but I always like to read the books first.

I am currently on book #6 but I find that I have to force myself to pick up the books to finish them. I feel like the books were meant to be in a high school library. Although some of the "sexual" parts of the books are a little more than a teenager might want to see. They grossly intimate descriptions are some of the worst written sex scenes I have ever seen. In my opinion they are very poorly written and very predictable. The author is constantly trying to use big words that don't fit in the storyline and backtracks to tell things that happened in previous books. She also constantly describes what every person is wearing and makes them sound terrible. It's like she is always trying to fill space in her book to add pages. I think that if you are on book #5 then you should know what has previously happened in the series without her telling us again and again.

To anyone thinking of buying this series BEWARE. I would get them at the library and save some money.