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Type of bind: Paperback
EAN num: 9780060519537
ISBN number: 0060519533
Label: HarperTeen
Manufacturer: HarperTeen
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 304
Printing Date: March 01, 2005
Publishing house: HarperTeen
Age index: Young Adult
Release Date: March 01, 2005
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A few nights after Jessica Day arrives in Bixby, Oklahoma, she wakes up at midnight to find the entire world frozen, except for her and a few others who call themselves 'midnighters'. Dark things haunt this midnight hour – dark things with a mysterious interest in Jessica. The question is 㟷hy;
The Secret Hour is a compelling tale of dark secrets, midnight romance, eerie creatures, courage, destiny, and unexpected peril.
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Okay, let me start out by saying I WISH I could do just a half point off. Really. I love these books. This is a great start to a great series. Maybe I'm partial to Westerfeld because I have yet to read any of his work and not fall in love with it.
My only problem (and I have to admit, kindof a huge one for me) is that I live about 30 minutes from the place where this book takes place and its nothing like the place described in the book. Westerfeld makes this place sound like the smallest little po-dunk town there ever was. Not true. Second, he has the landscape totally wrong. He refers to salt flats, and desert type land all the time. Uhm no. Not even close. Try farm land. Prairies. Lots of green. Kinda famous around here for supplying corn. And the icing on the cake... the school mascot and colors are wrong. :( Spartans, Red White and Blue, not tigers with purple and yellow. It just bugs me. I feel like if you're going to get that detailed with the setting, do some research. Minor things like the school mascot aren't such a big deal. But changing the entire environment? ugh.
OKAY sorry for my little rant. I won't do it any more.
I just love this book. And the two that follow. They effectively creeped me out. For a fast reader they don't last very long but still definitely worth it. If you like surreal/supernatural stories, or if you're like me and just love Scott Westerfeld, you will NOT be disappointed.
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This book is the beginning to the series. It was very entertaining, not up to the same par as his Uglies series, but still entertaining.
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I really loved this entire series. The very first book is about Jessica, who moves to Bixby and finds herself in the midnight blue hour, with few others. It is interesting to explore this hour within the book and all the creatures that inhabit it. The very first book pulls you in and doesn't let you go until the series is up! I suggest buying them all at once!
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I was interested in this book mainly because it is based near where i live. However, Westerfeld must had never visited the area before writing the book. A few mistakes he makes is saying that Oklahoma is flat which is only true in some areas but definitely not in the Bixby area which is lush with trees and rolling hills. Another part is that her dad says he can see lightning in Texas which again can not be done because Bixby is in the Northern part of the state and along with the trees, hills and mountain range between here and the state line it can't be done. Another is saying things about the desert areas but this area is full of trees and purple grass. Lastly there isn't a Broken Arrow County but there is a city called Broken Arrow.
I had read the Uglies, Pretties and Specials and was looking forward to reading a wonderful book by Scott Westerfeld but these things made it hard for me to get into the story because I thought he would have done more research on the area his book is based. I still give it four stars because it is a great idea and could be good for those not familiar with the area.
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At midnight, the world freezes and blue light covers the area. Only four kids, calling themselves Midnighters, are able to move around during the mysterious hour. When Jessica Day comes into town, she pretty much destroys the equilibrium between the Midnighters and the darklings, creatures who are able to come out during the midnight hour.
It's a fast-paced book, with a wide variety of personalities depicted through the five children. So far, however, they seem a little one-dimensional, but perhaps that is because of their talents as Midnighters. There is the seer/lore reader, the empath, the polymath, the flyer/jumper and Jessica's mysterious power (which we only find out within the last few pages of the book). For some reason the darklings are intensely after Jessica so with her presence things are chaotic, and she unwittingly brings together the other four (the flyer didn't really like the seer).
I read Westerfeld at very first for his commended Uglies series, but this is also a fast, entertaining read. While not a social critique like his more famous series, fans of supernatural creatures should like this book. It leaves with a slight cliffhanger but nothing so dire I feel I must buy the second book if the public library doesn't have it (it does).
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