True Blood
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Setting:
Where- Bon Temps, Louisiana
When- Take place when the vampire came out of it coffin 4 years ago
Time Frame- Everything thats happened in Dead until Dark, it seems a little hard to believe that its all taken place in one year. And in this book, Sookie, the main character, mentions it was getting close to December (possibly Club Dead, which is the next book) So it probably take about two years for everything that occurred in this novel.
Mood- Love
Tone: Scary, horror, fantasy, and sexual
Point of View:
-First person, told by one of the main characters, Sookie Stackhouse
Style:
Diction- The authors word in this novel is more like guilty pleasures.
Sentence Structure- The author uses mixtures of sentence structures. She uses simple, compound and complex sentence structures.
Figurative Language- The author uses colloquial language
Tone- The authors tone in this novel makes the style a combination of vampire and mystery, which make this novel so intense.
Plot:
Basic Situation-
-There are several murders in Bon Temps, and people believe that Bill is behind the murders because many of the bodies have fang marks
Events-
-The Bon Temps police suspect Sookies brother Jason and arrest him because he has been romantically linked to two of the victims
Events-
-Sookie wants to help her brother and asks Bill to take her to a vampire bar called Fangtasia in nearby Shreveport.
Climax-
-Bill is gone, Sookie discovers that the murderer is her brothers friend Rene Lenier
-He almost kills her, but she fights back
Resolution-
-Badly injured, Sookie wakes up in the hospital and finds Bill by her side.
– Bill tells Sookie that he has become his areas investigator, working under Eric.
SUMMARY: Sookie Stackhouse is a telepath who lives in a world where vampires have come out to the public and become legal citizens since the Japanese developed a synthetic blood, True Blood, which allowed vampires to lived without feeding on humans. She falls in love with a vampire, a Civil War veteran named Bill