Midnight Crossroad: Now a major new TV series: MIDNIGHT, TEXAS (Midnight, Texas, #1)

by Charlaine Harris

From Charlaine Harris, the bestselling author who created Sookie Stackhouse the world of Bon Temps, Louisiana, comes a new, darker world - 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 . . .

• ISBN10: 057509284X
• ISBN13: 9780575092846
• Publish Date: 8 May 2014 (first published 1 May 2014)
• Publish Status: Out of Print
• Out of Print: 19 December 2015
• Publish Country: GB
• Imprint: Gollancz
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 320
• Language: English

Reviews

[stressedrach]

I was expecting good things from Midnight Crossroad as I loved the Sookie Stackhouse books and the way Charlaine Harris managed to entwine the series into my mind so I was totally hooked.

Unfortunately I struggled with Midnight Crossroad. The characters were great, I got to like Manfred, Bobo, Fiji, Olivia, Lemuel and the other’s residents of Midnight. Everyone has a secret in Midnight and nobody tells much about their past or about themselves in general. I was eager to learn what the secrets were but the story seemed to be very slow and a little boring if I am honest.

It did not capture me like other books have done.

That said, I will definitely be picking up the next book in the series in the hope that book 2 gets more exciting.

I would give this book a 3.5 out of 5 rating.