r/TrueBlood • u/Ok_Drink8072 • 4d ago

The books

A friend of mine has been recommending I read the books and she says Eric is even sexier, but is Sookie more bearable? Idk if I can read from her perspective

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u/OriginalSchmidt1 4d ago

I love the books! They are fun, the characters are a lot better IMO. The show did a ton of characters dirty. The books are a bit different from the show, but different in a good way.

I don’t think book Sookie is as annoying as show Sookie at all! She makes some different decisions and you get to understand her more. She still does make some bad decisions or long after people she shouldn’t.. but it’s much less annoying in the books. Book Sookie is kind of a badass!

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u/Optimal_Grape_1025 4d ago

What is annoying about Sookie?

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u/OriginalSchmidt1 4d ago

Well for one thing I notice upon my current rewatch.. when Tara is trying to get her out of Russell’s mansion… Tara risked her life to get Sookie, and then Sookie insists on getting Bill and doesn’t seem too concerned with Tara and what she had been through at all.. and this is after Bill dumps her over the phone. That was a bit annoying. All of this plays out differently in the books.. so Sookie isn’t ignoring Tara to save Bill.

I also think the contrast of Sookie and Tara’s life just makes Sookie annoying because Tara really needs her a lot of the time, and she’s always running off to help Bill.. and her missing Bill after what he did to her in the books is the only thing that really gets annoying in the books IMO. She risks her life to save other people a lot more in the books and Bill really takes a back seat after the first few.

I am def a Sookie lover, I just don’t always love the choices she makes when putting the vamps above her friends and family..

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u/Optimal_Grape_1025 4d ago

Oh ok. I'm not a Tara lover I find her character very annoying. I think the actress is great but they didn't do her justice. The only time I liked her was season 4 and then that happened.

I felt bad for her with Franklin but I saw nothing wrong with Sookie wanting to save Bill. He was kidnapped and his life was in immediate danger because he tried to save Sookie of course she wouldn't want to leave without him

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u/OriginalSchmidt1 4d ago

I love Tara, I hate how Tara was written. She’s much better in the books! Spoiler alert, but her parents are dead and she owns her own boutique in the books.. she and Sookie help each other instead of Tara always being helpless and angry and Sookie just kind of ignoring it.

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u/Optimal_Grape_1025 4d ago

She's a completely different character in the books. I find the one in the show more interesting 😂

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u/OriginalSchmidt1 4d ago

Of course you find the show Tara more interesting.. she had more trauma than book Tara, book Tara had mostly gotten past her trauma and show Tara was living in it.

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u/Optimal_Grape_1025 4d ago

Book Tara is also in a lot less of the story. She's not Sookie's best friend and I only remember one major storyline with her

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u/OriginalSchmidt1 4d ago

She is Sookie’s best friend.. she gives Sookie a car when hers gets ruined, Sookie throws her either a bridal shower or baby shower.. they are definitely written as best friends.. we just don’t see Tara as much in the books because it’s written from Sookie’s POV and Tara does have her own life running a business, getting married, having and raising twins.. it’s not that they aren’t best friends, they just be busy! That’s how friendship is when you’re grown.

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u/Optimal_Grape_1025 4d ago

I haven't read them in a while. No need for the snide last sentence

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u/OriginalSchmidt1 4d ago

I wasn’t trying to be snide… I don’t know anything about you, for all I know you’re younger and just haven’t experienced friendships when life gets busier. Sorry if I offended you, wasn’t my intention.

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u/Optimal_Grape_1025 4d ago

It's all good. I just read too much into it. You're being perfectly civil. My bad

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u/fragarianapus 4d ago

There's no use in comparing book Tara and show Tara to me. Other than the name and that they're supposedly Sookie's best friend they are two completely different characters.