Midnight Hour

Midnight Hour (2016) C. C. Hunter

I really enjoyed most of the Shadow Falls series, but never quite got into Miranda’s short story, so I held off getting the final book in the series (which is Miranda’s) until it went on sale.

It was… nowhere near as good as the rest of the series.

It felt like the author was more invested in the other two characters, but had to write about Miranda to be complete.

It’s not that Miranda is a bad person–she isn’t. She’s sweet and lovely and has a LOT going on.

And that might be part of it. She really has too much going on, too much that needed resolved, and it just felt like Too Much for everything to suddenly work itself out.

Which is too bad because Miranda has a lot of important issues that made you cheer for her, to want her to succeed. But it just felt like one thing resolving itself after another, and that was in a story she shared with Chase, her HEA.

On top of that, it felt like ridiculous elements were added into the story for the sake of levity, and they just fell flat for me.

“What do you think the armadillo wants?” Holiday asked Miranda.

And of course there was this:

“Why didn’t my gifts show up earlier?”

“The magic in you is not released until you find another … magic.”

“What?”

He stared at her as if she should figure it out. Then suddenly she knew. “True love.”

That conversation, BTW, is with the armadillo.

So I’m sorry to sat that this closing book did not live up to the rest of the series, and I’m truly sad about that, because now I’m wondering if perhaps the other books weren’t as good as I thought they were, but don’t want to re-read them, in case they aren’t.

Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin
Rating: 5/10

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