Episode 80 – Dead Until Dark
The Worst Bestsellers
Worst Bestsellers
4.5 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 28 August 2017
⏱️ 91 minutes
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Summary
Out of the coffin and into the world of Bon Temps! Kristin May joined us to read Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris, the first of the Sookie Stackhouse novels that inspired the show True Blood. Despite the troubling trend of Confederate vampires and the overabundance of heterosexuality, this book had a lot of over-the-top drama for us to sink our teeth into–and, even better, a lot of paperwork for us to fill out.
Thank you note: Thanks so much to our Patreon sponsors for choosing this book for us to read in our first annual Patreon poll!
Patreon shout-out: Devin encourages you to visit the Wayne State University Museum of Anthropology and Planetarium, newly under the direction of his sister Megan!
Content warning: This book has light mentions of child sexual abuse and sexual assault.
Readers advisory: Here.
Footnotes: Buffy Failed: ‘True Blood’ and the Accommodation of Vampires by Jon Stratton
The Trials, Tribulations & Turning of True Blood’s Tara Thornton
‘Redliners’ Drama Based On Charlaine Harris Works Gets NBC Pilot Order
Dracula vs. The Marvel Universe: 14 Times The Lord of The Undead Fought Superheroes!
Candy pairing: Kait says candy blood, Kristin says a Take5 bar, Renata says beignets.
Coming up next: Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the worst bestsellers, where we read about Twilight for Grownups so you don't have to. |
| 0:14.9 | I'm Kate. |
| 0:15.9 | And I'm Renata. |
| 0:17.5 | And for this episode, we read Dead Until Dark by Charlene Harris. |
| 0:22.6 | Joining us to discuss the first book in the Sookie Stackhouse series is Kristen May, |
| 0:28.1 | True Blood Enthusiast, and Secret Wear Panther. |
| 0:31.4 | Hi guys. |
| 0:32.6 | Hey, Kristen. |
| 0:34.1 | Thanks for coming. |
| 0:35.5 | Thanks for having me. |
| 0:36.4 | I was really excited. |
| 0:38.6 | Before we get too deep into all of this, which we're about to get so deep, we have a couple notes we want to say up at the top. |
| 0:46.0 | The first one is that if you didn't know, one of the perks of being one of our Patreon supporters is that we did a poll where only Patreon supporters |
| 0:56.1 | got to vote on a book that we would read and we would read whatever won the poll. And this |
| 1:01.5 | was the winner. And I just want to say, I'm so grateful, first of all that you all supported us |
| 1:06.4 | on Patreon. And second of all, that you all had this amazing choice for us. Like, I just, I feel so |
| 1:13.7 | blessed to have gotten to read this book. And then secondly, before we get into this, I did |
| 1:19.1 | want to mention just a little content warning that this book does contain. And it's not a huge |
| 1:26.5 | part of it, but I just didn't want to take anybody |
| 1:28.2 | to surprise there's a little bit of sexual assault there's a little bit of |
| 1:31.4 | child sexual abuse that's sort of out of left field and sort of not a huge part |
| 1:36.1 | of the book but it might come up and I just wanted to mention that up top that |
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