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Blue Noon (Midnighters #3)
The darklings will hunt once again.
The secret hour when time freezes arrives every night at midnight in Bixby, Oklahoma. It's a dangerous time, when five teenagers are the only humans awake and dark creatures crawl out of the shadows, but at least the midnight hour is regular and predictable.
Until suddenly, the blue time comes . . . in the middle of...more
The secret hour when time freezes arrives every night at midnight in Bixby, Oklahoma. It's a dangerous time, when five teenagers are the only humans awake and dark creatures crawl out of the shadows, but at least the midnight hour is regular and predictable.
Until suddenly, the blue time comes . . . in the middle of...more
Paperback, 378 pages
Published
February 6th 2007
by Eos
(first published January 1st 2006)
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I guess that this book's biggest flaw is that its just a replay from the two others. By that I mean that the Midnighters search, go out and investigate, live their normal life, fight the Darklings until they realize they need to stop the big problem blocking their way. Surprise, this time they really need to save the world.
I honestly wanted to be done with this book. It dragged too long and because the story played out always in the same place, as i...more
I guess that this book's biggest flaw is that its just a replay from the two others. By that I mean that the Midnighters search, go out and investigate, live their normal life, fight the Darklings until they realize they need to stop the big problem blocking their way. Surprise, this time they really need to save the world.
I honestly wanted to be done with this book. It dragged too long and because the story played out always in the same place, as i...more
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In the final book of the Midnighter's trilogy, the blue time is beginning to fracture and fall apart. The five Midnighters, Dess, Jonathan, Jessica, Melissa and Rex are left scrambling, trying to find out why and prevent the entire world from becoming one big darkling buffet.
Like the other books this one is action-packed and rapid-paced from the first word to the last. We discover more about the lore and about the old Midnighter culture in Bixby. I loved the character development th...more
Like the other books this one is action-packed and rapid-paced from the first word to the last. We discover more about the lore and about the old Midnighter culture in Bixby. I loved the character development th...more
Wow, Midnighters ended with a bang; quite an apocolyptic wrap-up for the series. Perhaps I should have expected this, having read the Uglies series, but I guess it just seemed like such a contained story in the first book that it caught me by surprise to see things get so... big in this one.
Well, it was definitely action-packed and suspenseful. My favorite part of the book was watching Rex develop--he became by far the most interesting character in the whole story as he dealt with ...more
Well, it was definitely action-packed and suspenseful. My favorite part of the book was watching Rex develop--he became by far the most interesting character in the whole story as he dealt with ...more
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My only complaint about this book is that it is apparently the last of the series.
Man, Westerfeld is the master, but I am mad at him for leaving Jessica, and all of the fans of the Midnighters series hanging!
Man, Westerfeld is the master, but I am mad at him for leaving Jessica, and all of the fans of the Midnighters series hanging!
What a gripping ending for a fantastic series! This book continued to surprise me with how much more can happen within this make-believe world the author has dreamed up. None of these books has been a re-hash of what happened or even made you feel like you were stuck in a loop that started way back when. I think each of the books could actually stand on its own as a gripping story, but is easier to really get deeply into as you read all of them.
I kind of hated the ending, but it...more
I kind of hated the ending, but it...more
Though his third installment of the Midnighters series could have acceptably been the inevitable "third book" culminating in a predictable yet satisfying final battle, etc., Westerfield commendably arouses new interesting complexities and calls into question previously held assumptions of the series. The "secret hour", a twenty-fifth hour experienced only by the five midnighters and their darkling adversaries while the rest of the town is frozen in time, is driven out of bal...more
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Blue moon is about five kids named Jessica, Rex, Melissa, Dess and Johnathan who call themselves Midnighters because they were born at the stroke of midnight and can see the secret hour, which is a hour that happens at exactly midnight and in that hour everyone freezes except for them and the dark creature that created the hour. In the last book they find that the dark creatures have made a rip in the fabric of the hour and now the secret hour can happend any time and each time it happens the ri...more
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Now here is a man who knows how to end a series with a bang, quite literally. While some of the incessant recapping gets to be incredibly annoying, the plot is moved along really well. You know the characters now, so the things they do make more sense, although Rex & Melissa, v. 2.0's characters are still gradually being advanced. Much like Breaking Dawn, I love how the focus is on logic vs. 'let's go kill things!' Things are thought out, plans are made, and it all involves actually thought and ...more
The final book of the series climaxes the action while one of the Midnighters is going through a huge change, he’s becoming a halfling, half-midnighter half-darkling. Also, mysteriously enough, time frozes in the middle of the day, leaving humans unprotected from the terrors of midnight. Finally, there is one last confrontation with the Darklings on the most dangerous midnight of them all, Halloween.
A grand finale! And a not so happy ending but none the less a great one!
A grand finale! And a not so happy ending but none the less a great one!
In my opinion, this was the best Midnighters book in the trilogy. Scott Westerfeld has an amazing imagination, and I am completely jealous.
In this book, the five Midnighters have to save the world from the darklings, who are trying to expand the blue time. There are many twists in the book that left me surprised, and the ending itself was simple yet complicated in a way that left me satisfied and not confused. Not to mention the final battle scene, which was written perfectly, in m...more
In this book, the five Midnighters have to save the world from the darklings, who are trying to expand the blue time. There are many twists in the book that left me surprised, and the ending itself was simple yet complicated in a way that left me satisfied and not confused. Not to mention the final battle scene, which was written perfectly, in m...more
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In Scott Westerfeld’s concluding novel readers are left more than satisfied. In his typical fashion the plot rises and falls ending in a crescendo. Midnight threatens the world. It’s expanding and daylighters are trapped in its web.
All of Bixby’s history is incomplete. Everything they thought they knew is threatened when certain facts come to light.
The darkness in Rex terrifies the group. Is Rex who they thought he was or is he becoming something else? Can the midnighters sa...more
Blue Noon is the third and final installment of the Midnighter's trilogy. In this book the five teenagers that experience the secret hour begin to question everything they've believed in about Bixby's history as the town's secret hour and real time start to mesh together. As Halloween draws closer each Midnighter begins to fully feel the darklings anticipation to feast, and they have to band together one last time in order to protect all the innocent people who inhabit Bixby, Oklahoma from a tot...more
The finale of the Midnighters series is where it gets pretty interesting. Some of the elements that seemed a bit creepy that went unexplored in previous books are totally exploded here, the consequences of the end of the last book become tremendously important (and genuinely chilling) and while there are a couple of elements I had to roll my eyes at (will the nosy little sister end up in peril? Guess!) it came to a bittersweet and reasonably satisfying conclusion.
And I just want to...more
And I just want to...more
In the final book of the trilogy, the Midnighters are beginning to see that their gifts and purpose in the world have far more meaning than they originally thought.
They now know that they were almost engineered into existence and it is up to them to save the normal time from being taken over by the midnight hour.
In this book, the midnight hour starts encroaching on normal time more and more. There appears to be a rip in the time zones and this means danger.
Rex has also undergon...more
They now know that they were almost engineered into existence and it is up to them to save the normal time from being taken over by the midnight hour.
In this book, the midnight hour starts encroaching on normal time more and more. There appears to be a rip in the time zones and this means danger.
Rex has also undergon...more
I love this series, love the characters, but I have to say the ending totally sucks! Mr. Westerfeld blew it. It sounds like he got to a point where he was just sick of writing, sick of the story and wanted to move on to other things so he went to someone who had never read the stories, gave that person a quick recap and then asked how it should end and he said 'Ok, that'll do' and just walked away from it. The ending doesn't make any sense! It's like he never even met any of the characters b...more
This really turned out to be a pretty good series. I am just constanly amazed at the worlds that Scott Westerfeld comes up with! And his books never end up going in the direction that I think they will. I guess that's the sign of a great author, not at all predictable and he keeps you guessing. I really liked the characters that he created in this series. They were all pretty different from each other. In ways I could relate to all of them and in other ways I was completely different from ...more
La morte della luce, quando il calore si trasforma in gelo.
Diciamo tra le tre e le quattro stelline, come conclusione della saga non è stata male. Qualche problema c'è in questo libro, è innegabile che le idee erano ormai belle che finite e il povero Westerfeld sembrava avere una gran fretta di terminare e quasi sembra ci sia un taglio nel finale (la scusa del fulmine ad esempio).
Il finale non è male però, originale l'idea di intrappolare Jessica nell'ora blu anche se cos...more
Diciamo tra le tre e le quattro stelline, come conclusione della saga non è stata male. Qualche problema c'è in questo libro, è innegabile che le idee erano ormai belle che finite e il povero Westerfeld sembrava avere una gran fretta di terminare e quasi sembra ci sia un taglio nel finale (la scusa del fulmine ad esempio).
Il finale non è male però, originale l'idea di intrappolare Jessica nell'ora blu anche se cos...more
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What should have been the most exciting book to get through, was actually the hardest. There is so much of the story that is repetitive and predictable. The plot line sorta goes: normal life, whoa big revelation, normal life, scary darklings, Jessica to the rescue, discussion about previous night . . . on and on. It's like the plot points are on loop. Maybe it's just because I read all three books together.
Bad ending!!!!! When i finish i was so sad even if i never really like Jessica it was really sad. My sister asked me why i was so sad and i said have Edward (Twilight) stick his hand in lightning and then we'll talk. I would actually pay money to see that but unfortunately i don't think that'll happen. I did however enjoy that Dess finally was fine with having her talent.
The five teenage Midnighters of Bixby, Oklahoma, thought they understood the secret midnight hour—until one morni...more
The five teenage Midnighters of Bixby, Oklahoma, thought they understood the secret midnight hour—until one morni...more
Read it in a day, years after reading the other two. There's a lot of exposition in these books, but you don't care because the ideas and plot twists are utterly fascinating. I tagged it fantasy, but it feels pretty sci-fi on the inside... until you remember that there's no such thing as midnight physics. Westerfield also doesn't pull his punches with the ending, which is a nice difference from most YA books.
There's a special place in my heart for these because I'm mathematically incli...more
There's a special place in my heart for these because I'm mathematically incli...more
I liked this for sure, and am definitely glad I read this trilogy, but for some reason this last entry didn't quite grab me the way the previous two did. Mainly, it seemed to drag like crazy in the middle, and it just felt more surface-y and less detailed than The Secret Hour and Touching Darkness.
I wish we'd seen more of Dess as a character, and the story had used more of the idea of the topology of the dark hour, rather than mostly using math as a kind of numerology magic trick....more
I wish we'd seen more of Dess as a character, and the story had used more of the idea of the topology of the dark hour, rather than mostly using math as a kind of numerology magic trick....more
I really, really like this last book. It's not amazing but the series definitely got better with each book, and the stakes got higher with each one. The third book provided an awesome climax akin to one you would expect to see in fantasy movies, except it also opened up more about the history and the lore of midnighters that sadly wasn't explored enough, probably due to length constraint and everything. Which made me wonder why Scott Westerfeld didn't write another book. I mean, adding another o...more
Que Bixby era uma cidade especial, já nós sabiamos. Em Hora Secreta e No Limiar das Trevas, acontecimentos únicos decorreram nesta pequena porção de Oklahoma. O mundo para à meia-noite. Apenas algumas pessoas com capacidades únicas conseguem habitar nesta hora extra do dia, os Midnighters. Mas criaturas vis, também as há, e andam ansiosas para poderem viver mais que esta hora por dia.
No final do último livro, um dos midnighters sofreu sérias alterações. As suas atitudes e formas de v...more
No final do último livro, um dos midnighters sofreu sérias alterações. As suas atitudes e formas de v...more
Blue Noon delves into the history and reasoning behind the Midnighters and the secret hour; raising obvious peril in the process. I felt the book helped me understand each of the individual characters powers, personalities and their struggles with each other; which may not have been apparent in the previous books.
I've read previous reviews on this book/series that state that the ending was not as expected - which it wasn't - but I found it did bring some closure onto the whole series...more
I've read previous reviews on this book/series that state that the ending was not as expected - which it wasn't - but I found it did bring some closure onto the whole series...more
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