Midnight Crossroad
by Charlaine Harris
Series: Midnight Texas #1
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Published by Ace on May 6, 2014
Genres: Paranormal Mystery
Pages: 320
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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...
Why would anyone move to Midnight Texas?
Midnight Crossroad by Charlaine Harris is a fantastic read. This book is the first that I have read of Ms. Harris. The story, the characters, the little town of Midnight were all so superbly crafted that immediately you feel like you are part of the town and friends with everyone.
However, the one thing that I found challenging is the constantly changing point of view. It does work with this story though.
Midnight
Midnight, Texas is just a town that grew up and almost died at a crossroad. I have driven through many little towns like this and people only stop when they have to as it is not a destination to visit.
The residents of Midnight, Texas are the type of people that don’t want to share their personal lives with anyone. Heck, they seem to have an unspoken motto: Don’t ask and we won’t tell. The town is filled with supernaturals of one type or another and a hand full of actual humans. They all seem to get along just fine.
The only bad things happening in town are due to human issues. There is a whole white supremacy part of the storyline and murder that have nothing to do with the paranormal side. It’s nice to see the two worlds existing together.
My favorite characters
So, I have two favorite characters. You know how it is. Who doesn’t love a talking cat?
Mr. Snuggly
Mr. Snuggly is my number one favorite. He is adorable and yet, Ms. Harris has accurately portrayed what a cat would be thinking. At least what I think my cat would have been saying if he had spoken English.
I adored the part where Mr. Snuggly traipses through the rain to find help for Fiji. He is pretty funny.
Olivia Charity
Olivia is my second favorite character. I feel like she has a fantastic backstory and is always true to herself. Olivia also seems to have so much confidence and personality.
I love the way she handles herself and watches out for her friends. Aren’t she and Lemuel just adorable? I am looking forward to learning more about her in the next book.
5 Stars for Midnight Crossroad by Charlaine Harris
My rating for Midnight Crossroad by Charlaine Harris is five stars. I love the combination of paranormal and human worlds, along with these fascinating characters.
I have watched the television series, which I like but I thought the book is better and very different.
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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.
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