Lora's Review::: Chasing Midnight by Shyloh and Alex Morgan
Book: Chasing Midnight
By: Shyloh & Alex Morgan
Genre: Romance
Release Date: September 1, 2014
3½ out of 5 stars
Midnight is the typical southern small town. The residents there are mostly happy with their lives and their small town charm. Of course, the small town isn’t without trouble makers and excitement.
Mhisery Bellemy left the small town right after high school in an effort to find herself. She moved to NYC and never wanted to go back to Midnight.
Quinn Mason owned the local bar with his brother Chance and sister Syra. Quinn was forced to quit college and care for his younger siblings when their parents were killed in a car wreck.
Mhisery is forced to return to Midnight to help care for her alcoholic father after her mother’s death due to cancer. As soon as she steps off the bus in Midnight, Quinn sets his eyes on her!
If the novel would have just told their story, it would have been amazingly good. The story was told in the 3rd person point of view, but you could tell the POV was shifting between characters and there weren’t always clear shifts. This also happened with time lapses. Sometimes it would be weeks later when the story picked up, but you wouldn’t know that for a couple of paragraphs.
The authors also brought in POVs from the Mason brother and sisters as well as some of the Bellemy family. I just felt like there were too many people trying to get their ideas out there. The novel also repeated information over and over. Several times, we heard how Mhysery and given up her dreams to come take care of her alcoholic father and that Quinn was the legal guardian of his younger siblings. I felt like the book was maybe supposed to be more than one book and then it was throw together without a lot of editing. (Not proofreading because that was not such an issue for me with grammar and such.)
Also, there were places where the details got to be mundane. I started skipping the sex scenes because they were repetitive and too much information for me. (One scene took 20 pages!)
However, with all of that said, I still really, really enjoyed the story. Mhysery and Quinn stole my heart and even the side characters really came to life for me...but it took a LONG time to get them there.
The love that Mhysery and Quinn found was really solid though it did crack at times and need to be reuilt. Mhysery knew she was in trouble and wouldn’t be able to go back to NYC like she wanted:
She could run to the ends of the earth and still be haunted by him. Her heart would always ache for him, her body would always crave his touch, and she would never be able to put him out of her mind.
Quinn was the man whore of town before Mhysery came home. he didn’t think he’d ever settle down. In fact, there are times when his man whore ways come out with Mhysery, too.
If that kiss as just for starters; what do you want to do darlin’? I may as well warn you, that kiss has left me takin’ more cold showers than I did as a teenager. That kiss made me want to taste every inch of your flesh. It made me want to run my tongue over every millimeter of your ink work. It made me want to find out if the rest of your body tastes as sweet as your lips did.
This book took me almost a week to read when I can normally finish a book in a couple of days. It is very long, but I would recommend you read it if you are looking for something with some small town charm and plenty of drama to pull you in.
Shyloh was born and raised in the south, and is a published author in her own right, with multiple titles to her credit. She comes from a large family in which she was the only female among all her brothers and cousins. She has a background in medicine working as a registered nurse before turning her attention to writing. She has several awards to her credit before she started embarking on this journey with Alex where have started showing readers that there is more than steamy weather in the south.
Alex was raised in a similar family and was surrounded by alpha males, giving them a unique understanding of various male personalities. Alex's ability to turn a phrase and make, not only the reader, but the leading female in the novel swoon, has given readers a true glimpse into southern charm, as well as, southern seduction.
Both reside in the rural south currently, and enjoy spending time with their family and friends while they each participate in the running of their individual family farms. They each love horse riding, quiet nights beneath the stars with a cold drink, and general country life. But when the two authors collide and collaborate they create a world in which demons, humans, shifters, and vampires alike take the reader on the emotional ride of a life time.
Their characters show various strong personalities, while demonstrating the inner turmoil that is faced within the plot. They are skilled at creating characters that are multifaceted, making the reader explore the range of emotion that each character feels. Welcome to the worlds of their creation where the men are strong, powerful, charming, funny, and perfectly imperfect. Where the women are strong of will and heart, with a determination to rival any the reader has ever read.
Welcome to the worlds of Shyloh and Alex Morgan.
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