True crime is awesome, Just ask In Cold Blood! Savannah is one of my most favorite cities in the world! Have you been to Leopolds?! How could a true crime novel set in Savannah go wrong? I’ve been hearing about Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil for years, so I picked it up a while back and added to my list. This and the fact that it just was too short for a 5 star is why I ended up giving this novella four stars.īut it’s still definitely a great book and I recommend it to everyone who enjoys the Hollows series: You can read it no matter at which point in the series you are - since it’s a prequel, it doesn’t spoil any plot and I think it would even be interesting to read this as your first introduction to the series.… Oh, sorry. It was only 125 pages long, but I really had to sit myself down to read it within 24 hours. Since it was so intensely focused on Ivy, there were a lot of long paragraphs that described her inner turmoil, tensions, or actions she was taking, which meant that there wasn’t a lot of direct speech, which in turn slowed the whole thing down even more. Since the novella ends just as Ivy finds out about being partnered with Rachel (who isn’t even a runner yet at this point), there’s still some time left in the clous in which the relationship between the two of them (as well as Ivy’s character) can develop to the beginning of the novel series which I quite like - it means that not everything is set in stone, and it also left Harrison more freedom for Ivy’s characterization in this novella.įor some reason, I found it quite hard to focus on reading this story. It shows how she was affected by her youth growing up in a vampire-ruled society and the corruption that is all-around, even (or maybe especially) in governmental institutions suchas the FIB. I quite liked this look into Ivy’s perspective - something we’ve never gotten before in the four main novels. Seems like Ivy’s settling in for the long haul. She is stuck in a limbo where Art will only recommend her for a promotion if she sleeps her way up and uses the best tricks in the book to get her vampire pheromones to act up and give him her blood. Ivy works at the Federal Inderlander Bureau but is stuck on her journey to the top because her boss/partner Art is an old-established lazy (dead) vampire who couldn’t stand to see the ‘young’ Ivy rise above his position. In this novella that was published between books 4 and 5 of the Hollows series, we take a peek into Ivy’s life before she met Rachel.
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