Midnight Crossroad Published by Ace Hardcover by Charlaine Harris
Series: Midnight Texas #1
on May 6, 2014
Genres: Fantasy, Magic, Mystery, Paranormal, Vampires, Witches, Small Town & Rural, Supernatural, Urban Fantasy
Pages: 305
Source: Purchased
Format: eBook
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ISBN: 0425263150
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From Charlaine Harris, the bestselling author who created Sookie Stackhouse and her world of Bon Temps, Louisiana, comes a darker locale - populated by more strangers than friends. But then, that’s how the locals prefer it...
Welcome to Midnight, Texas, a town with many boarded-up windows and few full-time inhabitants, located at the crossing of Witch Light Road and Davy Road. It’s a pretty standard dried-up western town.
There’s a pawnshop (someone lives in the basement and is seen only at night). There’s a diner (people who are just passing through tend not to linger). And there’s new resident Manfred Bernardo, who thinks he’s found the perfect place to work in private (and who has secrets of his own).
Stop at the one traffic light in town, and everything looks normal. Stay awhile, and learn the truth...
Okay, let me just start by saying that I actually made it through most of the Sookie Stackhouse series and loved it.. So, in general, I’m a huge fan of Charlaine Harris’ writing. She’s obviously very talented, seeing as how she has several books published and is a successful author.
But–this book was difficult for me. I read this for one of my book clubs, and I actually flew through it pretty quickly. The main issue that I had, was that I felt like by the end of the book, I wasn’t really in the loop. There was just much that was still so ambiguous about everything.
And the main mystery got solved around the 85% mark–but, I just felt like it was slightly anticlimactic.
Also, I feel like some of the characters that I was supposed to love–were just annoying.
With all that said–I actually started the second book in the series, right after I finished this one. So, job well done, Charlaine! Even though I was underwhelmed, I was hooked!
About Charlaine Harris
Charlaine Harris has been a published novelist for over thirty-five years. A native of the Mississippi Delta, she grew up in the middle of a cotton field. Charlaine lives in Texas now, and all of her children and grandchildren are within easy driving distance.
Though her early output consisted largely of ghost stories, by the time she hit college (Rhodes, in Memphis) Charlaine was writing poetry and plays. After holding down some low-level jobs, her husband Hal gave her the opportunity to stay home and write. The resulting two stand-alones were published by Houghton Mifflin. After a child-producing sabbatical, Charlaine latched on to the trend of series, and soon had her own traditional mystery books about a Georgia librarian, Aurora Teagarden. Her first Teagarden, Real Murders, garnered an Agatha nomination.
Soon Charlaine was looking for another challenge, and the result was the much darker Lily Bard series. The books, set in Shakespeare, Arkansas, feature a heroine who has survived a terrible attack and is learning to live with its consequences.
When Charlaine began to realize that neither of those series was ever going to set the literary world on fire, she regrouped and decided to write the book she’d always wanted to write. Not a traditional mystery, nor yet pure science fiction or romance, Dead Until Dark broke genre boundaries to appeal to a wide audience of people who simply enjoy a good adventure. Each subsequent book about Sookie Stackhouse, telepathic Louisiana barmaid and friend to vampires, werewolves, and various other odd creatures, was very successful in many languages.
The Harper Connelly books were written concurrently with the Sookie novels.
Following the end of Sookie's recorded adventures, Charlaine wrote the "Midnight, Texas" books, which have become a television series, also. The Aurora Teagarden books have been adapted by Hallmark Movie & Mystery.
Charlaine is a member of many professional organizations, an Episcopalian, and currently the lucky houseparent to two rescue dogs. She lives on a cliff overlooking the Brazos River.
