#23 Night Shift by Charlaine Harris

The third book gets to the heart of the matter about what makes Midnight weird.  You also find out more about several of the longtime residents of the town. I don’t want to say much and give away the plot but the story starts with people coming to the center of town and killing themselves. Bobo and others are actively working to either prevent the killings so not to bring any more attention to their small corner of the world.  The end of the story does wrap up several unknown things about people and why they are there in Midnight.  Not sure if there will be more books or not in the series but if not this one gives good closure and doesn’t leave the reader desperately looking for more pages of text in the book.


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#24 The Beauty, Vol. 1 by Jeremy Haun, Jason A. Hurley

Beauty, a new sexually transmitted disease that makes the sufferer more attractive in several ways. With a low grade fever as the only side effect of it, many people sought out the infection and soon almost half the population had it.  But Beauty does come with a hidden price that is soon going to become very public.  The story starts with the apparent murder of a beauty sufferer on the subway but quickly devolves into more of a giant conspiracy with big pharma and the government.  The book was interesting enough and had sorta of X Files feel to it with the two cops going against the big guys and they had help from a small group of people trying to cure the disease.  By the end of this collection you know who most of the players are in this battle but the war is far from over.

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