Midnight Crossroad (TV Tie-In) (A Novel of Midnight, Texas)

I really enjoyed this book and will be buying the next one. I do want to say when i was buying the kindle version it said length was '2 ' pages, i knew this was probably an error , BUT I have been fooled before thinking I'm paying for a full length novel and have gotten a 50 page novella. If anyone else seen this and was wondering, yes it's a full novel ( not sure exact number of pages) yes 2 pages is a typo. Hope this helps if someone else was wondering.

Like The Magicians, I'm glad that I watched the television series version of this story before picking up the books. However, unlike The Magicians, it wasn't because the screen version fixed things that I hated about the books. In this case, it was purely because writing for screen is different than writing for the page.A direct translation of this novel would not have worked. In book form, this is a story of a small, sleepy town, told in a small, sleepy narrative. Things definitely happen, but at a small, sleepy town pace that would have dragged on-screen. The show is straight-up urban fantasy excitement, while the book reads more like a rural cozy mystery with some fantastical elements. I'm honestly not sure I would have continued the book without the curiosity of how the story would differ and remain similar to what I'd already seen on TV driving me.I'm definitely curious about whether the character's backstories already revealed in the show will be different from what's in the books. I appreciated the increased diversity of the show version of the characters. Fiji and Lemuel, especially, seemed bland in comparison in the original text.I'm excited to start the next book, which I've already ordered and received. But I'm much more excited for season 2 of the show next year, and I'm crossing my fingers that I get one.

Okay, I really hate it when well published authors put out material that is below par and it still gets published because they've been published already and it's been great in the past.Charlaine Harris is a wonderful writer. You can tell she's a good writer. This book however is BORING. She excels at creating multifaceted and interesting characters, good dialog and great small town settings with depth. This plot though...arrrggg. There's no major conflict, and the publisher/editors let her get away with rambling on and on about the town and the small ins and outs of small town dinamics. Then, an interesting hint is dropped about one of the characters...then nothing. Show me the conflict!Another issue I had with this was the point of view it's written in. It's 3rd person and I would have to say it's omniscient. It's distancing and feels a bit awkward. I had a very hard time sinking into the characters as this felt like it was almost more of a screenplay instead of a novel. I could adjust to the POV, however the lack of plot kills it. I couldn't force myself to finish it.

Just finished Midnight Crossroads, the first book in the Midnight, Texas series. It's a fairly interesting novel that was made into a current television series.Does the series match the book? Not really. In the TV series, Manfred seems to be the Star. In the novel, every character has their place, but I'd say Bobo and Figi are the two main book characters.There are plenty of differences, and a few similarities. Here are a few...SPOILERS AHEAD1. Manfred's Grandmother isn't really a character in this book. Where in the Series, she's a main driver of the story.2. Manfred has a trailer in the series, in the novel, it's other characters whom live in a trailer. Those being Madonna, the owner of the restaurant, together with her baby and lover (Teacher).3. Teacher is not a character in the series. Well he might be on the sidelines, but that's all.4. There are hints in the book that the Rev is a were-animal. But he never transforms into a Tiger, like in the TV show.5. Figi is a full figured White woman in the book, while in the television show she's a thin African-American woman. Note: having her African-American in the TV series could have worked better because of the evil White Supremacist subplot, but it wasn't used. Her being White was used in the book when she was kidnapped. I think if she was Black, she would've been beaten or killed by her kidnappers.6. In the book, both Joe and Chuy appear to be some type of Angel, but in the TV show, only Joe is an angel, a fallen angel.7. There's no "thinning of the barrier" in the novel, just in the show.8. Manfred and Creek don't have a thing in the novel, but in the show they're lovers.And many of the events in the show don't occur in the novel. For example, there's no band of vampires, nor an attacking succubus (but there is a woman in the novel who has a glamour of beauty when she's actually an old hag - but she doesn't go around killing people).I admit we may find out more when the final episodes air. I know that there's one key event coming up and I won't spoil that (it's the answer to the main mystery).I'd recommend these books, they're fun, and for those who miss True Blood, they're a fair replacement.

I liked the first season of the TV series. It's not the best thing on tv, but was enjoyable. Thought I'd get the books to get more in-depth with the characters. This was so boring I quit halfway and skipped to the end. There's very little here that's not in the first season, other than some characters are different than the actors. It feels stilted and padded, without really getting any real feeling of 'presense' when you're in a character's POV. We're told page after page what they think and feel, not shown, so it reads like someone else is telling a story, not the characters themselves and we're one step removed. And she skips POV often. I felt like this was more a fleshed out script, or wanted to be a script, than it was a readable story.I really liked her other series. This one was just too flat for me.

This is a gloriously unusual fantasy read set in a small (VERY small) Texas town where most (if not all) the inhabitants are of the paranormal persuasion. Manfred Bernardo who is a minor character in the Harper Connelly books by the same author moves to the town following the death of his grandmother to set up his psychic business. As the books develops he meets his neighbours - the owner of the pawnshop (Bobo Winthrop from the Lily Bard books), his lodgers who only go out at night, the resident witch and her cat, the very strange minister who has a pet cemetery, and the other inhabitants. There is a slow beginning but the author needs the time to introduce her characters and to hint at their secrets.After a time the body of Bobo's missing girlfriend is discovered and it appears that she has been murdered. The inhabitants of the town and the local sheriff (I recognised him from the Aurora Teagarden novels) investigate and the town which has seemed twee and safe is suddenly revealed to have some very dark secrets and some people dedicated to keeping them hidden.This is a clever and engaging book. It seems on the surface to be a fun story of magical folk but it actually has a lot of depth. The theme of the book is diversity and living together as exemplified in the various characters in the town but there is also an examination of bigotry and hate. The ending of the story is truly shocking and you certainly cannot see it coming from the gentle beginning - I am very much looking forward to seeing where the author takes us in subsequent novels.

I've enjoyed other CH books to varying degrees & I liked Manfred from the Harper series, so was looking forward to starting the Midnight books. To start with I can't understand why CH has given the majority of the characters such daft names & she even felt the need to sound out how Fiji should be pronounced. The book carries on to insult our intelligence with the most tedious of plotlines with bland, self righteous, hypocritical residents. Pages & pages of the mundane with a smattering of vigilante murders. Manfred is now a creep, perving over the town's 18 year old, he's close enough to her age so that makes it all okay. The ending is so ridiculous, I feel cheated for having read the first 90% of the book. I read a preview of the second book in the series, they have a town meeting, I was so bored I actually can't believe this has come from CH at all.

I bought the three books in the collection after watching (and loving) the TV series. I usually find that books are better than their TV/ film adaptations, but not in this case. I read all three books because I paid for them, but... the books are slow, the stories are superficial and we are left with more questions than answers. The nature of some of the characters is only revealed to Manfred in the third book, and then it’s like ‘whatever, you know already.’ I’m sad that the series was cancelled, the producers/directors did a much better job with the idea than the author.

Midnight Crossroad is the first in Charlaine Harris' new series Midnight Texas. The town of Midnight is grateful for the Crossroad as it drives business from outsiders into the tiny hamlet. With only a nail bar, Gas station, diner, pawnbrokers and magic shop, the town is quiet with only a few residents, well known to each other. Manfred Bernardo an Internet psychic moves into the town and soon discovers that there's something a little unusual about the townsfolk.

I really loved the concept of this novel, supernatural people all living together in a little hamlet, disturbed by white supremacy is about what sums it up which sounds ridiculous but it works!

I loved all the characters, some of them are open about their supernatural powers like Fiji the witch, while others like the Rev and Bobo are yet to be revealed, although I already have my suspicions. I am a huge fan of the Sookie Stackhouse series and Charlaine Harris does not disappoint with this latest series!

I haven't read all of Charlaine Harris' books, but I have read a good few and I picked this trilogy up a few years ago because it was cheap at the time. Midnight Crossroad is set in the small town of Midnight, Texas, where the inhabitants all seem to be hiding various secrets. The main crux of the plot is the disappearance of one of its inhabitants, though this takes a while to become clear. As with some of Harris' other novels, there is an element of urban fantasy, but this feels a lot lighter than say The Southern Vampire Mysteries. I thought that Midnight Crossroad was a great book and wish that I had read it earlier instead of letting it gather dust on my virtual shelf. Harris' chapters were a lot shorter in this book, probably because she has various perspectives to bounce between, which is something I prefer. As a result, it felt like a much quicker read. If you're someone trying to get into urban fantasy then I think that this is a good place to start. The mystery element of this plot was brilliant, and the culmination of it felt a lot darker than what I've read from her before. I am looking forward to continuing with the trilogy, and I'm grateful to have them lined up and ready to go.