Levende død i Dallas

I read the first few books in this series years ago but never finished it, so I'm rereading the first few volumes to finally finish the series. I watched the HBO show too, but I know it's very different from the books.

In this volume, the dialogue is really cheesy, and the pacing is super off. It had two completely separate plots, one shoved in the middle of the other, that didn't have anything to do with each other. The beginning and the end are about a murder and mythological creature, but the middle is about a trip to Dallas and a missing vampire. It's like pausing in the middle of one novella, reading a different novella, then returning to the first. I don't think I like any of the characters yet, except maybe Eric and Pam (though who knows if that's just cause I liked their characters the most on the show), and I find the way certain things are addressed to be problematic at best. Bill is so boring, and Sookie is fairly obnoxiously written.

But it's a fast and easy read. I remember liking one of the later books a lot more than this, so hopefully I get to that book soon.