**edited 12/04/13 
 Sookie Stackhouse is a pretty, demure, and (extremely) naive blonde with a "disability": the ability to read other peoples' minds. (Apparently, despite the direct contradiction in the term, an additional ability is the new disability in Sookie's world.) When Sookie uses her skill to prevent the murder of a vampire, she finds herself with a doorway into this only recently exposed world. Determined to discover who has been murdering the various "loose women" around town, Sookie teams up with the enthralling vampire Bill (ugh) to find the answer. 
 I felt compelled to read this because, as far as I understand it, Sookie Stackhouse, along with Patricia Brigg's Mercy Thompson, are to "female-protagonist urban fantasy"/paranormal romance (I'll call it FUF) what Harry Dresden is to "male-protagonist/hardboiled urban fantasy"(which I'll call MUF): the template, archetype, the most prominent example, and the series to set oneself up against. In other words, Sookie is who we get to blame for all of the tropes that are common to all subsequent FUF. So I must admit that I enjoyed trying to unearth which of these tropes are due to Sookie. 
 ...And that's all I'm going to post here. 
 The rest of my (rather verbose and quote-filled) review is posted over here at Booklikes. 
 Why? Because I disapprove of GoodReads' new policy of censorship. 
 ~2.5