Night Shift: Now a major new TV series: MIDNIGHT, TEXAS (Midnight, Texas, #3)

by Charlaine Harris

Welcome to the most intriguing mystery you'll read this year.
Welcome to Midnight, Texas.

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Sookie Stackhouse novels-"the Mark Twain of things that live under your bed"-comes a new novel of Midnight, Texas, the town where some secrets will never see the light of day...

At Midnight's local pawnshop, weapons are flying off the shelves-only to be used in sudden and dramatic suicides right at the main crossroads in town.

Who better to figure out why blood is being spilled than the vampire Lemuel, who, while translating mysterious texts, discovers what makes Midnight the town it is. There's a reason why witches and werewolves, killers and psychics, have been drawn to this place.

And now they must come together to stop the bloodshed in the heart of Midnight. For if all hell breaks loose-which just might happen-it will put the secretive town on the map, where no one wants it to be...

• ISBN10: 0575092920
• ISBN13: 9780575092921
• Publish Date: 5 May 2016 (first published 12 April 2016)
• Publish Status: Out of Print
• Out of Print: 14 February 2017
• Publish Country: GB
• Imprint: Gollancz
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 320
• Language: English

Reviews

[kimbacaffeinate]

Night Shift is the final book and brings with it troubles that have laid peacefully for two-hundred and fifty years but something has awaken. This story focuses on all the loose threads, romantic stirrings and threads from previous books. It brought a sense of closure even if I felt the climactic battle fizzled a little.  Harris accomplishes all of this while still giving us a chilling mystery. I love that we got to see movement regarding Olivia and her father. Manfred seems to have found his happy and outsiders have become a part of Midnight. I will honestly miss this little town and its kooky inhabitants. I loved the concept of a small-town for supernatural misfits or perhaps loners is a better term. I will let you decide. Harris left a few threads open and it might disappoint those who like things wrapped up in cute little packages. I love to imagine what will become of these characters as I secretly hope the author does another book. So far I’ve been luck with these silent prayers.

This review was originally posted at Caffeinated Reviewer

[brokentune]

I'm really disappointed. This book started out pretty well, with Midnight, a small town in Texas, and its unusual locals, with a series of mysterious suicides at the cross-road, with a fascinating interaction between the characters.

And then? Then nothing happened. For ages, the plot drifted from one backstory to a sidestory to another backstory to another bit about a character, all of which had little to do with the mysterious suicides. What added to the disappointment was that the story then made a lot of references to the previous books in the story - none of which, again, was all that relevant to the mysterious suicides.

I lost interest about 30% percent in but struggled on because I hoped the narrative would pick up. It didn't really.

Not impressed..

[lizarodz]

This series keeps getting better and better!