Midnight Crossroad

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.

Thoroughly enjoyed this: so much so that I downloaded the second in the series before I finished it so I could dive right into book 2 without having to wait. The book builds on one of the side characters in the Grave Secret series. She's world building in this one - and the little community of Midnight is sketched in nicely by the end, and there's a little mystery to tie it all together.