This book showed up in my Goodreads recommendation and it made me curious. I enjoyed the authors Sookie Stackhouse series and I thought, why the heck not. This story sounds like it might take place in the same world as the Sookie series, since Vampires, Witches, etc are real and doesn't come a surprise to most so far. It does take place in a small town, but the similarities ends there. The story has it own cast of colorful characters, creatures and non creatures, who are all a bit quirky, and seem to have a mysterious reason to live in the middle of nowhere USA.

Although a bit slow to start, I did enjoy this book, my curiosity to find out where the story might be going kept me reading. Couldn't tell where the conflict was going to come from, but definitely liked how they all came together to help each other. Very interesting names, at least they were pronounceable. No cliffhanger ending but I was left with questions about a few of the characters stories, guess that will come in the other books. It's suppose to be a trilogy and I also found out it's going to be a television series on NBC this season. Will be curious to see how it translates to television. ( )

Manfred Bernardo, psychic, has just arrived in Midnight, TX, where, in a vision, his deceased grandmother told him to move. He is renting the house next to his landlord, Bobo’s Pawn Shop. Midnight is a very small dying town with some unusual inhabitants and Manfred thinks it will be perfect for him. As he meets people he realizes that no one talks about themselves, but all seem to get along. Things get more complicated when at a town picnic the body of Bobo’s girlfriend is discovered. She seemed to have left Bobo suddenly 2 months earlier. Now the town is being questioned by police. There are lots of secrets among the inhabitants, but they are loyal to each other. As some of the secrets are revealed things get really interesting. Saying more would give away too much. I enjoyed it and look forward to more stories with these characters. I heard that a TV show had been made of the series and looked up the cast to see who played some of the characters. A Wikipedia article about the series gave a synopsis of the individual episodes. I read the write up for the first two and stopped. It was so different from the book and not as interesting to me as the story I read. Don’t plan on looking for the series to watch. But will read the other 2 books in the written series. ( )

Took me a lot longer to get into it than i would have liked. I think I had a hard time because i watched the tv show before reading and i just couldn't reconcile some of the characters in the book with what i "thought" they should look like based on the show. And the whole twist at the end was a complete shock to me! ( )

I didn't find this as engaging as the Sookie series, but it was still an entertaining, easy read. It very much feels like it's setting the stage for further stories. I would expect those to have more depth, there's certainly room for it. ( )

I think I might be burned out on paranormal stuff, this just didn’t do much for me. It’s an easy read with little depth so it’s good for a casual read.