The Secret Hour (Midnighters, Book 1)
by Scott Westerfeld
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Jessica Day has just moved to Bixby, Oklahoma from Chicago with her family. Still trying to find her niche in the local highschool, she's noticed by a group of students who are very different from your average teens. Not to mention that her dreams at night are becoming very, very vivid--such as the fact that for one hour at midnight, time seems to literally stand still.
Such is the life of the Midnighters, a group of teens who were born at midnight and ...more
Jessica Day has just moved to Bixby, Oklahoma from Chicago with her family. Still trying to find her niche in the local highschool, she's noticed by a group of students who are very different from your average teens. Not to mention that her dreams at night are becoming very, very vivid--such as the fact that for one hour at midnight, time seems to literally stand still.
Such is the life of the Midnighters, a group of teens who were born at midnight and ...more
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recommends it for: Anyone and everyone!
The Secret Hour is the first book in the Midnighters Trilogy. Firstly, if you've read it, you will realize the irony of the fact that it was book # 13 of my 2008 reading list. :D I have to say that I absolutely adore this entire cast. There is the same sort of quirkyness here that I really liked in Peeps, and that I thought was slight overkill in The Last Days. Jessica is just so...normal.(something about you is so...11:59) She is a perfect contrast to the others and their varying degrees of cr...more
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Read in July, 2007
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On her first night in Bixby, Oklahoma, fifteen year old Jessica Day learns that for her, time stops for on hour every night at midnight. In what she calls "the secret hour", rain, people, smoke, everything stops as the world is bathed in a blue light and a different moon arcs across the sky. She soon learns that she's not alone in the midnight hour, but shares it with four other teenagers from town as well as shadowy creatures called "darklings." Apparently docile before h...more
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teenage fantasy/adventure
On her first night in Bixby, Oklahoma, fifteen year old Jessica Day learns that for her, time stops for on hour every night at midnight. In what she calls "the secret hour", rain, people, smoke, everything stops as the world is bathed in a blue light and a different moon arcs across the sky. She soon learns that she's not alone in the midnight hour, but shares it with four other teenagers from town as well as shadowy creatures called "darklings." Apparently docile before her ...more
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Read in December, 2007
Jessica moves to Bixby Oklahoma b/c her mom has a new job. It is in this small town that Jessica realizes that that there is something special about her, for one hour a night she is one of five teens who are able to move around the midnight hour. They were all born at midnight and have powers. Not very "super" hero powers, a polymath, I suppose being extraordinary at math is special. Jessica is unsure what her power is but whatever it is makes the darklings, who have been scaring h...more
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This book made me really glad that I was born at 8 am!
I'm not really sure what to say about this book.
The premise is that there used to be 25 hours in the day and the 25th hour was removed from normal life by the creatures that make up our nightmares when we started to fight back. Now the creatures are only "alive" during that one lost hour, when everyone else is frozen. But people who were born at midnight are still alive/awake in the hour and can move about. They also ha...more
I'm not really sure what to say about this book.
The premise is that there used to be 25 hours in the day and the 25th hour was removed from normal life by the creatures that make up our nightmares when we started to fight back. Now the creatures are only "alive" during that one lost hour, when everyone else is frozen. But people who were born at midnight are still alive/awake in the hour and can move about. They also ha...more
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Read in September, 2007
The one where everything freezes for an hour at midnight, except for some teenagers with special talents and some fantastic beasts that are hunting them.
This bears about the same relationship to real speculative fiction that paranormal romance does. Which is to say, there may be conditions contrary to fact, but they don't provide a new perspective on the real world; they're just there to play certain roles in what might as well be a mundane story. The darklings might as well have been wolves...more
This bears about the same relationship to real speculative fiction that paranormal romance does. Which is to say, there may be conditions contrary to fact, but they don't provide a new perspective on the real world; they're just there to play certain roles in what might as well be a mundane story. The darklings might as well have been wolves...more
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Read in September, 2007
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BEST BOOK EVER!I couldn't put it down after every page read, and it kept me up past almost midnight when reading it.This book has a lot of mysterious things that happen that makes it interesting to read.It's basically a book about MIDNIGHTERS and what they do at midnight with a new girl becoming a new midnighter finding out what is really happening in midnight.At first it's kind of boring but when you get to finding out her secret power you will be kept up until you almost finish the book or fin...more
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Read in December, 2007
This is the best book by him!!! (even though i have only read this book by him!!!)
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Read in December, 2006
This is the first book in the Midnighters series. I loved the idea that there was this "secret hour" at midnight where time stood still and the kids were free to run around. There was an interesting set of rules and scary creatures. The kids also have special powers that work during the secret hour. I liked this first book in the series because Westerfeld kept things solid enough to make the 25th hour of the day seem vivid, real and interesting. He also kept the logic and science of th...more
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Read in January, 2008
Another science fiction from Scott Westerfeld, author of Uglies trilogy. About one secret hour in midnight, when everyone and everything was freezing, only some people can walk around in that secret hour. Only they who called themselves 'midnighters', who own the hour.
Jessica Day moved in to a small city called Bixby. Turned out that in Bixby there are 25 hour a day. Jessica found out that at the middle of the night everything is frozen, except her and her friends, the other midnighters. Dark...more
Jessica Day moved in to a small city called Bixby. Turned out that in Bixby there are 25 hour a day. Jessica found out that at the middle of the night everything is frozen, except her and her friends, the other midnighters. Dark...more
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well up to the parts i read is soo good.its about this girl named jessica day and whan she moves to bixby she finds out that theres not only 24 hours a day theres 25!its called the secret hour and only the midnighters can see it and be in it!midnighters are people that are born at 12:00 midnight.she doesnt know that shes a midnighter until she moves to bixby.theres other midnighters too.they all have special powers.she meets dess melissa and rex.she doesnt meet jhonathan until the middle of the ...more
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Read in December, 2007
Yeah for Scott Westerfeld!!!! This was published a few years ago, but I never read it. Now I need to go pick up the 2nd and 3rd books in the series. Westerfeld seriously can't write anything I don't like.
Quick Summary: Jessica Day moves to Bixby, Oaklahoma where she learns that she is a Midnighter, a person born at midnight who gets to live in the 25th hour of the day each night at midnight. But darklings and slithers, ancient creatures that live in this blue time, don't like Jessica, an...more
Quick Summary: Jessica Day moves to Bixby, Oaklahoma where she learns that she is a Midnighter, a person born at midnight who gets to live in the 25th hour of the day each night at midnight. But darklings and slithers, ancient creatures that live in this blue time, don't like Jessica, an...more
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Read in January, 2008
Westerfeld has once more proven his ability to create engaging characters and stories. At times sinister and creepy this is definitely a book to read when you're willing to leave the light on at night. The book was fast paced and filled with beautiful description. From the moment Jessica Day arrives in town the reader is left guessing about how she fits in with the midnighters and even whether all five will make it to the end of the book. The mythos and lore that Westerfeld has created is both i...more
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Read in February, 2006
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sci-fi lovers
another book by scott westerfield, the midnighters trilogy. these are about a group of teenagers living in a small town, that happened to be born at the stroke of midnight. they now have an extra hour, between 12:00 am and 12:01 that they have all to themselves, except they share it with the darklings. they are monsters that used to live in the normal time, but got kicked out when the human population grew. each of the 5 teens have a special power in addition: mathmatition, seer, mind reader,...more
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Read in November, 2007
recommends it for:
anyone who likes scifi/horror/fantastay...even just a little bit!
I love Scott Westerfeld! I'll be one to admit- I'd choose a romance novel over a scifi/fantasy/horror book any day. But Scott Westerfeld's books really grab my attention. You can tell the books are for young adults because it is such a fast & easy read...but the story and plot is amazing. I love how Scott thinks out of the box:)
I've read the Uglies trilogy by him and they became my favorite books:) Now I plan on reading the other 2 Midnighter books in the series! I seriously can't put his ...more
I've read the Uglies trilogy by him and they became my favorite books:) Now I plan on reading the other 2 Midnighter books in the series! I seriously can't put his ...more
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Read in March, 2008
recommends it for:
Teenagers
Fiction; science fiction
This book was really fast paced, it jumped into the action right on the first page! It was a pretty quick read, the action happened so fast that I just sped through it. It wasn’t really up to par with Westerfeld’s Pretties and Uglies series, but it was still entertaining. After I read the second book I kind of thought that the first book was just setting up for the much more exiting second book in the series. But still overall not a bad book. Good for some light r...more
This book was really fast paced, it jumped into the action right on the first page! It was a pretty quick read, the action happened so fast that I just sped through it. It wasn’t really up to par with Westerfeld’s Pretties and Uglies series, but it was still entertaining. After I read the second book I kind of thought that the first book was just setting up for the much more exiting second book in the series. But still overall not a bad book. Good for some light r...more
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Read in August, 2007
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anyone who likes scfi of fantacy
midnighters is fantasic book that's loaded with action, adventer, mystery, and romance.It's about a girl named Jessica Day who moves to bixby, oaklahoma because of her moms job.on her frist night in bixby at midnight she experiences the secret hour and finds out that four other teens, who call themselves midnighters, can live in this hour too. at first Jessica is convinced that the secret hour is all a dream but soon comes to face that the secret hour is real and for her it's deadly dangerous.
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