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    Midnight Curse
    Midnight Curse
    Midnight Curse
    Audiobook10 hours

    Midnight Curse

    Written by Melissa F. Olson

    Narrated by Amy McFadden

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    About this audiobook

    Scarlett Bernard is used to cleaning up messes. As a human who cancels out any magic around her, Scarlett's job is to keep the supernatural world hidden—at any cost.

    But on the eve of the Vampire Trials, a two-day tribunal that allows the otherworldly community to air their grievances, Scarlett receives a blood-soaked message from Molly, her estranged former roommate. Molly, a vampire, had been living with twelve human college students…and in one terrible night, she slaughtered them all.

    Scarlett believes Molly's been set up, but no one else in the Old World agrees with her. Meanwhile, the true perpetrator is determined to make sure Molly goes on trial for the massacre—and the penalty is death.

    With less than two days to prove her friend's innocence, Scarlett calls on former LAPD detective Jesse Cruz to help her dig into Molly's past. But no one—Molly included—wants Scarlett and Jesse to bring the terrible truth to light.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateFeb 7, 2017
    ISBN9781536614251
    Midnight Curse
    Author

    Melissa F. Olson

    Melissa F. Olson is the author of numerous Old World novels and stories, as well as the novella Nightshades and its two sequels. She lives in Madison, Wisconsin, with her husband, two kids, two dogs, and two jittery chinchillas. Read more about her work and life at www.MelissaFOlson.com.

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    • 4/5
      I enjoyed this book. The narrator is very easy to listen to. I will be listening to the second one in this series shortly. I tend to gravitate toward female protagonists. I like fantasy… but there are more teenaged protagonists in this genre than grown adults. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve enjoyed many a book with younger leads. However, it is a delight when I find a book that narrated well with an adult protagonist.
    • 5/5
      This is a fantastic urban fantasy series but heads up, this is not the first book in it. Her book called “Dead Spots” is. I always enjoy her books and I love these characters! I’m reading these books all again for the second time!
    • 1/5
      Already annoyed. So many references to previous events that I had to double check that I hadn't accidentally gotten something farther a long in the series. It's probably time for me to drop this genre.
    • 4/5
      This can count as either book 1 or book 4. Since I haven’t read the previous three books that feature Scarlett working for her vampire boss cleaning up any evidence of werewolves or vampires or anything Old World from mere mortals. Scarlett is a mortal but she is a null, someone who can cancel out magic within a small radius around herself. She gets a message to see her old roommate Molly and when she arrives she finds Molly in the middle of a slaughter. Things don’t add up and she quickly decides to help her old friend clear her name. A fast-paced story but I didn’t feel like I was missing anything by reading this book first.


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    • 4/5
      Midnight Curse by Melissa F Olson and narrated by Amy McFadden is an audible book that follows the other series starting with the book Dead Spot. It has the same characters and that is wonderful! It is a few years later and it does have that new character! Yeah! A big ugly dog like creature made from dark magic. Molly is in deep trouble for something that isn't her fault and is going to be sentenced to death if Scarlet can't get the truth in time. Molly is her ex-roommate and vampire. Lots of danger and action. Narration was perfect!
    • 3/5
      I really enjoyed Olson’s Boundary Magic series and was very excited to pick up the first book in her new Disrupted Magic series. I didn’t realize that the Disrupted Magic series is basically a continuation of the Scarlett Bernard trilogy. I would definitely recommend reading the Scarlett Bernard trilogy first. Despite all the recapping in this book I felt slightly lost and kept feeling like I was missing a lot of important context and background for this book. This was a decent urban fantasy but not knowing all the history behind the multitude of characters in this book really hampered my ability to enjoy the story.I listened to this on audiobook and the audiobook was very well done. I would recommend listening to on audiobook if you like audiobooks. This was a decent investigative urban fantasy. Some aspects of it were pretty typical: the heroine runs herself ragged, there are werewolves and vampires, the paranormal is kept hidden from the rest of the world. The idea of Scarlett being a null was interesting but reminded me of the Parasol Protectorate series. I also somewhat enjoyed Scarlett’s huge dog, but that reminded me of Mouse from the Dresden Files. In short this was a decent urban fantasy but not all that unique or creative; it seemed to pull things from a lot of existing urban fantasy series.Overall this was a good, typical urban fantasy. I didn’t love the story or the characters but they were all decent. I struggled with all the background that I was missing despite the recapping, so I probably would have liked this better if I had read the Scarlett Bernard series first. However, since I didn’t love this….I don’t plan on finishing this series or going back to read the first three Scarlett books.
    • 5/5
      Scarlett Bernard is back. She is still cleaning up messes for the Old World. She has been living with Eli - a werewolf - for some time and she's happy but he's pushing for marriage and she isn't sure that is what she wants. When she gets a call from Molly who was a vampire roommate of hers a few years in the past, she goes to see what the problem is.After Molly asked Scarlett to leave because Scarlett was too much of a trouble magnet for her, the two lost track of each other. Now Scarlett answers her call and finds her surrounded by her twelve roommates. It looks like Molly killed them all and gorged on their blood. Scarlett is used to cleaning up messes but this one is a little more than she usually has to handle. What makes it worse is that Molly told her that she was forced to do it.With the Trials set to begin in just a day, Scarlett has to find out what really happened with Molly or let her go to trial where she will almost certainly be condemned to death. Molly goes to Jesse for some help though she hasn't seen him for years either. Jesse's life was also changed by his contact with Scarlett and the Old World. He is now longer with the police, married and divorced, and became a best-selling author when he wrote his story. Working with Scarlett will finally let him quit with the pity-party that his life has become.I liked seeing Scarlett and Jesse again. I liked the action and the mystery. I liked Scarlett's unusual dog Shadow. This was a fast-paced story that kept me guessing up until the end.
    • 4/5
      I don't know if I'm the only one, but I was so confused when I read the blurb for Olson's new Disrupted Magic series. The main heroine, Scarlett Bernard, already has a series, but now she's the voice in MIDNIGHT CURSE, book one, of the Disrupted Magic series? It felt more like it should be Scarlett Bernard #4. You can read this series without reading the 3 books in the Scarlett Bernard series, but why would you want to? There is so much backstory, you won't know you're missing, but it makes the book so much better. While you are at it, you might as well read the Boundary Magic series before diving into MIDNIGHT CURSE too. Both worlds intersect and the characters have history.I was so excited dive back into Scarlett's world. MIDNIGHT CURSE takes place 3 years after the end of HUNTERS TRAIL and it was crazy to see how much the characters have changed. Scarlett is living with her werewolf boyfriend, her ex-vampire roommate isn't in her life and is in fact living as a coed—although not anymore as we soon find out—, and Jesse—the man I wanted Scarlett to end up with—got married, and divorced, has even written a book, and is now a depressed shadow of his bad-ass self. There are more characters, but these three have always been my favorites. I don't want to get into the plot, but MIDNIGHT CURSE is a fast paced, easy flowing story with lot's of mystery, action and suspense. Characters and their relationships are tested quite a bit, some in more ways than others and getting to see Lex, from the Boundary Magic series, was an added bonus.The ending kind of throws things on it's head again after a book that works to smooth things out, but it did it's job of getting me to want to read more. Book two, BLOOD GAMBLE, has a release date of July 25, 2017, so at least we don't have to wait to long to find out what happens next.* This book was provided free of charge from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.
    • 5/5
      It was very nice to have Scarlett and Jesse team up once again. The world that Ms. Olson has created is interesting and captivating. Plenty of action, suspense, murder, & mayhem involving a null, humans, vampires, werewolves, & witches. It's three years since we left off from this group. Scarlett is with Eli and Jesse's life has had multiple changes. The reader/listener is taken on a ride to solve Molly's blood lust and to find who the true murders are.
    • 4/5
      I received a copy of the book in exchange for an honest review. Scarlett Bernard is a null. That she neutralizes the magic in "old world" species if they get close to her. She is an expert on keeping the old world a secret by covering up any evidence that magic exists. But when a friend of hers who happens to be a vampire, kills a group of humans, Scarlett just can't believe that Molly, her friend, is completely guilty.I know this is the first in a series, but it is not the first book about this character and the "world" she lives in. But I did not know that when I started the book. So I got off to a rocky start, feeling like I had come in in the middle of the story. However, I got over it because the characters and the action drew me in. The world is pretty easy to understand so I got it pretty quick. The story is set in Los Angeles and I got a definite Hollywoodish vibe. I am excited to go back and read the books that preceded this one.