Midnight Crossroad
Ratings19
Average rating3.3
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Ratings19
Average rating3.3
"FIRST IN A NEW TRILOGY 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... "--
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DNFed this one at 38% couldn't make myself get into the story, no rating.
I'm reading this as a result of enjoying the tv series “Midnight, Texas” which I enjoyed and was hoping the book would be more complex than the shows, which most books are. The section of the tv series that was related to the story of the book was pretty faithful from what I can remember, so although it wasn't more enlightening it was thankfully not a let down.
A new series about a recurring character from Harper Connolly? Why not, I liked Manfred.
But at the very beginning Bobo from a town called Shakespeare appeared. Then a vampire, with obligatory mention of synthetic blood. But not much else was happening. Still I kept on reading only to see if I can spot any other guest appearences – and there is a new sheriff in town, and his name is Arthur Smith, and he used to be in a club discussing old murder cases... And by that time something happened. But it was not very interesting.
From rasw usenet discussion group comes the term Brain Eater Syndrome (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Nicoll#.22Brain_eater.22) – a disease sometimes contracted by authors. Among the proposed symptoms are:
• nothing happens in later books (check)
• an attempt to tie all his/her previous books into one giant multiverse (check).
The second symptom is more worrying, because Sookie and Lily/Aurora do not belong in the same universe. Just imagine Lily/Aurora saying Sure, we have vampires coming through Shakespeare/Lawrenceton sometimes. Did I forget to mention it?. You can't? Well, neither can I.
Characters were interesting, but something was missing... and what is it about all that talk about food! LOL Anyways, I was glad I had borrowed it from the library...
Series
3 primary booksMidnight, Texas is a 3-book series with 3 primary works first released in 2014 with contributions by Charlaine Harris.
