Saturday, July 29, 2017

Book, BOOK, BOOK report!!!!

I am going to talk about three books by Charlaine Harris.  She is more famous for her Sookie Stackhouse books.  These books are set in the same "neighborhood" only in that Manfred Bernardo is acquainted with Sookie.The books are titled, Midnight, Day Shift and Night Shift. 

Midnight is the name of a town in Texas, it is small, dusty and inhabited by mostly supernatural beings to whom we are introduced over the course of the books. 

Bernardo is a professional psychic and he is good and occasionally has a true vision.  He moved to Midnight from Tennessee I think.  His neighbors help him unload boxes. Bernardo has many tattoos, body piercings and spiked white hair, he is also short and slight.

One of his neighbors is a young woman named Fiji who is a witch and who has a familiar who is a talking cat.  His speaks mostly in a bitter, snarky voice. 

Bebo is a handsome blond who runs the pawn shop and Fiji is crushing on.  Bebo is oblivious.

Lemuel is the vampire who mostly minds his business unless he needs a refreshing sip of either blood or personality essence. 

Olivia is his human wife who was sexually abused by her stepmother as a child.  Her daddy did not believe her.  Olivia became a professional assassin and makes a fairly decent wage and step mom is no longer a problem. 

Rev is a very spiritual man who offers burial services for both humans and pets.  He is a tiger shifter.  We meet two more tiger shifters a bit later. 

There is a lovely gay couple, Chuy and dammit, Ican'trememberhisname.  They have a Peke who yaps and they are fallen angels and rarely manifest their wings. 

The only other normal couple in town are Madonna, Teacher and Grady their baby.  They are African American.  Madonna cooks at the local diner, Teacher can fix anything.

Over all a swell bunch, first book is getting acquainted and some adventure.  I think you may thoroughly enjoy the books.  As for the NBC series I will reserve judgement as the series has already departed from characters and plot.  Meh....

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