Title Midnight Crossroad Author Charlaine Harris Cover Art NBC Universal Media Publisher Ace - 2017 First Printing Ace - 2014
	Title Day Shift Author Charlaine Harris Cover Art Hugh Syme Publisher Ace - 2016 First Printing Ace - 2015
	Title Night Shift Author Charlaine Harris Cover Art Hugh Syme Publisher Ace - 2017 First Printing Ace - 2016
	Category Urban Fantasy Warnings None Main Characters Manfred, Fiji, Mr. Snuggles, Bobo, Joe, Chuy, The Rev, Lemuel, Olivia Main Elements Vampires, witches, angels, shapeshifters, demons Website charlaineharris.com

Midnight Crossroad

Day Shift

Night Shift

I read the first two books this year because I saw there was a TV series that came out and I like to read the books before watching any shows or movies about them. In fact, if it wasn't for the TV series I wouldn't have even known about this new series set in the same world as that of the Sookie Stackhouse books (which took me till the second book to figure out when there were a couple crossover characters). Note that if you are looking for a "vampire" book, you won't really find that here, instead it's got a little of everything but no one "creature" gets the limelight so I had trouble deciding where to link this review in my various categories!

I enjoyed them very much. Just as the Sookie books started off very strong, mostly light and lots of fun, this series is starting off the same way. Manfred is an online psychic and he's looking for a quiet place to live outside the public eye, and finding Midnight he hoped to fight in...he had no idea how having a special power allowed him to fit in better than expected. In fact it took both books before I think I definitely determined exactly what everyone was underneath their normal looking exteriors.

All the characters are interesting and the plotlines are woven in with Harris' other speciality, mysteries. And then there is Mr. Snuggles, by far my favorite character...but then I've always been fond of cats and Mr. Snuggles is definitely a cat!

I didn't want to read all the books right away and run out, so I'm keeping Night Shift for next year. At this time I don't know if it's just a trilogy or if Harris intends on writing more in this world. Either way, looking forward to watching the TV show (though I find it ironic that the vampire charactar Lemuel, where so much emphasis is made on how unnaturally white he is, is played by a black man, ah well, hopefully they didn't mess with too much else)

October 2019

I've now completed the trilogy. I must admit keeping the book storyline straight after having watched the TV series was a bit of a challenge, they are similar but quite different (turns out they messed with a lot, ah well, especially Chuy and Joe). We have here the Colcanar storyline but it is incredibly different from the one in the TV show, and the hotel the Midnighters were so worried about didn't really become much of a plot point in the book series. Anyway, that's why I usually try to read the books first and not let any TV adaptation taint them.

There are so many characters in Midnight, you can't give each of the a proper backstory in just three books, and if this really is the last one, then I definitely wanted to know more about some of the characters. Some mysteries were never fully explained (like who is funding the hotel), though most of them are wrapped up (like why are plain old vanilla human Reed's living in Midnight). I suppose, given that Midnight will always be a strange place, the stories will always keep coming and one needs to stop telling them somewhere, but hopefully Harris will feel the urge to revisit these characters some day. Plus I love Mr. Snuggly and want to know more about him too! I wish in the TV series they gave him his "tiny voice" instead of a deep male one, but guess it would have come off more funny that way and Mr. Snuggly would give you a hairy eyeball if were to snicker at him.