They do contemplate having the community picnic at night so the town vampire can come. The Texans aren’t immune to Southern hospitality, though. In spite of the food, Midnight doesn’t feel quite as Southern as Bon Temps, which was part of the charm of The Southern Vampire Mysteries for me. The town restaurant, Home Cookin, serves fried catfish and baked chicken on Tuesdays and the sides “are mashed potatoes with cheese and onions, slaw, and a baked apple with cinnamon” (p. Bon Temps, the setting of The Southern Vampire Mysteries, always felt like a real place you could go to and Midnight, Texas is no different. But Manfred has secrets of his own…ĭiscussion: Charlaine Harris excels at creating quirky communities. There’s a newcomer, Manfred Bernardo, who just wants to work hard and blend in. There’s a diner, but people stopping there tend not to linger. It’s a pretty standard dried-up western town. 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 the Davy highway. Take a trip to the small Texas town where only outsiders fit in with the first novel in #1 New York Times bestselling author Charlaine Harris’ paranormal mystery series.

I still finished the entire series, even though it went on about four books too long, because who doesn’t love crazy plots and sexy supernatural creatures? I enjoyed Harris’ writing well enough to pick this book up from the library. This is blasphemy, but I think the TV show was actually better than the books. Why I Chose It: I am a huge fan of True Blood, which was based on Charlaine Harris’ The Southern Vampire Mysteries series.

Series: A Novel of Midnight Texas Book #1

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