True Blood, again

I must confess, this season I'm eagerly awaiting every episode! And finally, last week the kiss happened. YES! And what a kiss it was. Totally sent me all aflutter and goofy smiling. Sookie and Eric's romance makes the stuff they have changed from the book worth it. Totally. Yep, go Eric and Sookie!

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About True Blood s 4

*Warning! Spoiler alert*

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I feel the need of saying something on the subject now that I've seen the first episodes. I'm still not finding the tv-series as brilliant as the novels behind it, but now that I'm treating the show as something completely different, I enjoy it more. That Alexander Skarsgård is playing Eric only makes it easier.

What I like so far, is Eric. :P Haha, surprise surprise. I do hope they follow the book pretty good, because it was one of my favourites. (Just realised that stopped reviewing after book three. Oh, that's ok I'm planning on re-reading them soon.) I love Eric when he's lost who he is. He is such a darling little lost boy. And yeah, I really enjoy him and Sookie together. I'm still on the fence of them letting Lafayette live, but he is kind of fun, and I guess they have incorporated him pretty well in the events with the witches and all.

The fairy aspect is kind of confusing, and so different from the books that I'm not even going to discuss it. And the thing with Hotshot and Jason, well... yeah. No comment.

Oh, and did you notice who had written the book Sookie was reading in the end of the last episode? Nice homage to Charlaine Harris, I thought. :P

Yum Yum

This pic greeted me at facebook today! :P The True Blood Page is listing the 10 most memorable True Blood Moments. Click the hot pic to see more pictures from Rolling Stone.

True Blood Season 3

**Spoiler alert! If you haven't seen the two first episodes of 

season 3, read carefully!**

The wait is finally over, True Blood Season 3 is here! I'm so looking forward to this season. I really eager to see what themes and events they are pursuing this time.The two first eppies has been very good, though varying much from the book, but I'm learning not to compare too much. It only gets me upset. It's still a great show, and I so enjoyed the view of Alexander Skarsgård's naked behind in the first episode.

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I'm looking forward to more flirting between Eric and Sookie, and later Alcide Herveaux. I think we all are in for a treat this season. :)

On a side note, the tenth book in the Southern Vampire Mysteries Dead in the Family was released on May 4 this year. I'm really looking forward to read it soon!

Favourite of the Week

I thought I would start a trend. A regular feature here in my blog called "Favourite of the week". I haven't exactly decided on what it will entail, but, I had planned on like character, actor/ess or novel or... well basically anything, really.

So with out further ado, I give you...
Eric Northman, viking vampire and character in Charlaine Harris' novel series Southern Vampire Mysteries. He is roughly about a thousand years old. He's Swedish. And so very sexy. He's tall and well built if we may trust Sookie Stackhouse (“handsome, in fact, radiant; blond and blue-eyed, tall and broad shouldered. He was wearing boots, jeans, and a vest. Period. Kind of like the guys on the cover of romance books.”). He's all together attractive. And even though he's a flirt and perhaps somewhat of a player and bad boy, we get to see a softer, more sensitive side of him in Dead to the World when he's bewitched and without a memory of the vampire he used to be. He grows as a character in the books, which don't think comes across in the Tv-series True Blood. I do, however, approve of them choosing Alexander Skarsgård and the fact that he speaks Swedish from time to time. :) It cracks me up every time.

I really like the way he always sound so seductive... It really, when listening to the audio book, sends shivers down my spine, and it's really a woman reading it! That's good writing, right? :P

Don't you just want to eat him up? 

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True Blood Season 2

*Spoiler alert*  

If you haven't seen season two, and don't want to know about it, stop reading here.

I've finally had the time to watch all of the episodes of season two of True Blood. I probably should have let more time pass before I did it, because all I did now was to complain about how this and that didn't happen like that in the book. My hubbie became quite put out with me. "It's only based on the books," he said, continuously. And I didn't get to see Eric in lycra, well the sexparty-thingie didn't really happen like that in the book. Lafayette didn't even get killed. I have much trouble relating to the book now. The series is still good, but I think they have changed too much for my liking.

One thing I really liked was the relationship between Hoyt and Jessica, they were so sweet. Too bad Jessica went all vamp in the last eppi. I wander what is going to happen there.

And the thing with Maryann the meanad? I just didn't get that, so not what the book said. And Eric inviting Lorena, Bill's maker? What's that all about. I did, however, like the relationship between Eric and Godric. That showed a more sensitive side to Eric, which shows even more in the books. I like that side of him. He is not as ruthless as he seems.

I do still enjoy the tv-series, though I find the books even better. I can't wait to see what they have in store for us next season, which is to be aired this summer.

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Club Dead

The third book, Club Dead, in the Southern Vampire Mysteries takes Sookie to Jackson, Mississippi, to investigate the kidnapping of her boyfriend Bill Compton. With the help of the werewolf Alcide Hervoux she finds out that Bill is actually being tortured by his mistress, and former lover, Lorena. At Josephine's, or Club Dead as the weres call it, Sookie meets Alcide's former girlfriend Debbie who is not pleased to see her ex with a new woman, even if she is at the club celebrating her engagement to another man. Later, thanks to her ability, she saves the King, Russell Edgington, of Mississippi's right hand from being staked, only to be injured in the process. Thanks to that injury she is taken to his mansion, where they suspects Bill is being held. In order to rescue Bill, Sookie drinks Eric's blood to regain her strength and then some.

In this book Eric's interest for Sookie deepens and I think we get to see another, softer side of him.Then we have Alcide, the dark and sexy werewolf who shows great interest, much to his ex's dismay who actually tries to kill Sookie when she shoves Sookie into the trunk together with a very hungry Bill. Intrigues, intrigues.

These books just gets better and better!

picture borrowed from Wikipedia.

Living Dead in Dallas

The second of Charlaine Harris's series of Sookie Stackhouse, Living Dead in Dallas, takes our heroine to Dallas for a job. She's been hired by the vampires of Dallas to use her telepathic skills to find a missing vamp. She encounters the Fellowship of the Sun for the first time, she also finds out that there are more supernatural creatures out there aside from vampires. Such is meanads and shapeshifters/ werewolves.

I still have a very vivid image of a Eric Northman in Lycra. That must be a sight for sore eyes, right? Apparently, that is not in the TV-version. Such a shame. Would have liked to see Alexander in pink Lycra.

I really enjoyed this book. And I'm really starting to become very fond of Eric as a character. Maybe because he's more fun and dangerous than Bill. Bill is kind of meek in comparison.

And to be honest, I'm getting a wee bit embarrassed when listening to all the sex scenes...

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Dead Until Dark

I have just finished reading (well, listening to actually) the first novel in the Southern Vampire Mysteries by Charlaine Harris, Dead Until Dark. As you may, or may not know, these are the novels that the popular Tv-series True Blood is based on. But I must say, the books are better. Even if we get to see everything through Sookie's eyes, and the fact that they have added  characters and events in the series. Of course I have the images of the cast in my head. Yes, I find Stephan Moyer's Bill Compton very attractive. And yes, I find fellow Swede Alexander Skarsgård very, very attractive as Eric Northman. Anna Paquin is great as Sookie.They have explored other characters in the series, even if the focus is on Sookie, we get to see more of for example, Sam and Jason in the Tv-series, which is good too.

The book is from a first person perspecitve and Sookie is the one we are following. I usually prefer it to be third person, because I would so like to know what everyone is thinking. I'm kind of nosy... :P I mean wouldn't you like to know what is going on inside of Bill's head? Or Eric's for that matter?

These books are a lot more juicy than say, Twilight, which is quite sweet in comparison (in the first two-three books anyway). They are more like Laurell K. Hamilton's series about Anita Blake. Rawer and much sexier. I like it. It has all the elements I like in a book; romance, vampires,  a little bit of violence, a whole lot of sex...

If you like the tv-series, read the books, I guarantee you won't be disappointed.

The pics: 
Dead Until Dark from Wikipedia
True Blood from True Blood News