When Manfred suddenly finds himself not only a murder suspect, but accused of stealing his dead client’s jewelry, the stage is set for all sorts of hijinks.Įven though I missed some of the character development from Midnight Crossroad, I quickly found myself embroiled in the day-to-day lives of the strange residents of Midnight, Texas. And in the same Dallas hotel where Manfred was staying, a husband and wife are found dead in Olivia’s hotel room (Olivia is also from Midnight, and has also gone to Dallas for the weekend “on business”). And then scandal comes to Midnight, when one of Manfred’s clients (he’s a psychic) dies while he’s giving her a reading. First of all, an old hotel that’s been shut down for years is suddenly reopening, a fact that is making the residents of Midnight very nervous. That will give readers the opportunity to spend more time with Manfred and Joe and Chuy and Olivia and Fiji, and that’s a great thing.Ī couple of different mysteries are going on in this story. This book is filled with people I’d love to get to know better, and if her past series are anything to go by, I expect there will be many more Midnight, Texas books before she’s finished.

But that’s where Harris shines the brightest-developing her characters and their relationships with each other. Day Shift is almost more of a character study, and the plot felt like an afterthought. Don’t get me wrong, I enjoyed Day Shift, but if you’re looking for heavy action and plot, you won’t find it here. Her casual approach to storytelling gives the plot a meandering quality, and at times I felt as if nothing was really happening in this book. There is a downside to this style of writing, however. She writes as if she’s having a chat with her best friends, and you feel lucky because you’re one of them. Reading a Charlaine Harris book is like wrapping yourself in a warm blanket.

I have not read Midnight Crossroad, but I did get a copy of Day Shift in my Ace Roc Stars package so I decided to dive right in. So it was with some hesitation that I picked up the second book in Harris’ new paranormal series. I think I finally gave up after the first five or six, because they just got sillier and sillier, and by that time I was deep into True Blood which was NOTHING like the books. “That’s a good summary,” Fiji said brightly.īefore I started blogging, I read quite a few of Charlaine Harris’ Sookie Stackhouse books. And I still need to clear my name of these bogus theft charges, which draw attention to Midnight, and therefore to all this other shit that should remain secret.” Snuggly has uncovered bad doings at the hotel. “An old hoodlum just popped in to promise us he’d keep silent in return for scones. “The boy is growing at twenty times the normal speed,” he said. The nitty-gritty: Even though it’s thin on plot, Day Shift is full of heart, small town secrets, quirky townsfolk and plenty of supernatural beasts. Day Shift (Midnight, Texas #2) by Charlaine Harris

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