★ Is Sookie Stackhouse Dead and Gone?

While reading the newest entry(as of June 2009) in the Southern Vampire Series by Charlaine Harris, Dead and Gone, I discovered:

My Sookie has disappeared.

Dead and Gone is really good and I enjoyed reading it to find out the latest happenings in Bon Temps. The last book was a little weird--vamps and weres holding a convention in a made up city called Rhodes--for me, but it was still what I call a "fun" read. You know the type of "read" I mean -- totally not related to any of the stresses in my everyday life.

However, in this new book, I can only see Anna Paquin's Sookie Stackhouse. This newest title seems just too much like True Blood. Now, this is not a bad thing!

It could be that Ms. Paquin has done an excellent job re-creating Ms. Harris' Sookie, or she has taken over the character as her own. Now, this is not a bad thing. In fact, I really like the HBO series. But, I do not hesitate to tell anyone that the books are not like the series. Yes, the characters have the same names, the setting the original, but the books are total fantasy. The TV series is almost too real.

The books also have an almost comic appeal. Sookie gets into impossible situations, but you are not stressed out . She is like Stephanie Plum in that way. Stuff just happens and it is kinda funny.

Am I just imagining that my Sookie is gone? Has your Sookie disappeared, too?