Title: Shameless rip off (and badly executed too)
Product review: So I'm watching "True Blood" on HBO with my wife who's been reading the Twilight series, and she comments how that show seemed to rip off the "Twilight" books. No, not the sparkly vampires (are you kidding me?), the fact that one main character can read everybody else's minds except the other main character. In the INFINITELY better "True Blood", it's the female lead who can read everyone's minds except for the vampire she falls for.I was surprised that Allan Ball, who is a truly great writer, would stoop to ripping off a sad work of teen fiction. Yet, "True Blood" came out in 2008, the first Twilight book came out in 2007.Except that on further digging, I read that "True Blood" is based on a series of books that came out in 2001 called the "Southern Vampire Mysteries".There just is no justice in this world. How this book became so popular is just beyond me. Not only is it embarassingly bad, it practically ruins the whole genre.
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