Author: Charlaine Harris
Publisher: ACE (Penguin Random House)
Year: 2016
Genre: Fantasy/Mystery
Age: 18+
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This is the third & final book in the Midnight Texas trilogy.
I originally started reading this series after watching the show on television & really enjoying it. I have listened to all the books on audio in combination with reading them when the audio isn't available. The reader Susan Bennett is pretty good with voices & overall I enjoyed her reading.
I would also highly recommend the show. It was fabulous. Although I will say this the show encompasses all 3 books into 10 episodes which are very fast paced & there are some differences but both mediums were enjoyable.
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We begin this final book back in Midnight with our supernatural friends & enemies. Evil is rising in Midnight...literally. It has been historically shown that crossroads like the one Midnight sits on are places where evil lurks beneath the surface. This is because crossroads are where people commit suicide, are killed to give example, mass burials are found, & other supernatural happenings occur. Midnight is no exception to this fact.
250 years ago a powerful witch used a spell along with a ritual to seal the demon Colconnar in the plane that exists with ours. Now on the night of Samhain, a night every year were the vail between realms is thin, which also happens to be Halloween the demon shall rise again unless the people of Midnight can stop it.
The trouble begins when people start being called to the crossroad by the demon to kill themselves as a sacrifice to him. This killing & blood gives him power that he can use to break through & return to this realm. The Midnighters are determined to stop this from happening as well as save the people effected by the calling. It will take all of them & all they have to make this happen.
Along with the demon fighting we also learn more about Olivia in this book & what is going on with the Reed family, as well as the new guy in town, Sylvester Ravenwing, working at the Gas N Go. Olivia's story has been developing for sometime so there is no surprises there. But we learn who this newcomer Ravenwing is & why he plays a significant part in trapping the demon.
Overall it is a happy ending for the town as well as the end of the story. The ending is very similar to the show which made me happy.
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Likes: There was nothing about this book that I didn't like. We get some loose ends of the story tied up, there's a blossoming love story, plus the demon is vanquished never to return again...we hope.
I am a little sad the story is over. But at the same time I'm glad it didn't drag on like the Sookie Stackhouse series (it was so long I never finished it).
Dislikes: This was not a dislike for me but it may be for some...there is a sex scene at the very end of the story as well as 2 teenagers having sex throughout the book. The descriptions are not graphic but they are there. So if that bothers you or you would like to recommend this book to others. This book had the most sex in it out of all 3 of them.
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