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The Secret Hour (Midnighters #1)
Nobody is safe in the secret hour.
Strange things happen at midnight in the town of Bixby, Oklahoma.
Time freezes.
Nobody moves.
For one secret hour each night, the town belongs to the dark creatures that haunt the shadows. Only a small group of people know about the secret hour -- only they are free to move about the midnight time.
These people call themselves Mi
...morePaperback, 276 pages
Published
2010
by Atom
(first published February 19th 2004)
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This is the best book by him!!! (even though i have only read this book by him!!!)
Just finished this trilogy and I really liked it. It's premise is that there are actually 25 hours in each day but only those born on the stroke of midnight can live in that secret hour. To everyone else it passes in an instant. Those who live in that hour are born with special abilities to help combat the various nasties who also live there. Fun read. If it was a movie it would be PG-13 for language. No "F" word, no sex but more swearing than I would prefer.
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 arrival, the darklin...more
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Gah. This book was recommended by someone whose opinion I truly value, even if only because she knows absolutely everything about evety book ever written. So I guess I really wanted to like this book. I expected something huge, and I only got... something not-so-huge.
For starters, I like the whole premise of the 25th hour, I wouldn't have thought of it and I kinda wish I had, so there. Scott Westerfeld wins right there. Now. He shouldn't have named his characters something as epic as...more
Gah. This book was recommended by someone whose opinion I truly value, even if only because she knows absolutely everything about evety book ever written. So I guess I really wanted to like this book. I expected something huge, and I only got... something not-so-huge.
For starters, I like the whole premise of the 25th hour, I wouldn't have thought of it and I kinda wish I had, so there. Scott Westerfeld wins right there. Now. He shouldn't have named his characters something as epic as...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 have some cool power dur...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 have some cool power dur...more
Apr 17, 2012
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4 of 5 stars
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Recommends it for:
Westerfeld fans
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Here's the review I wrote for my school newspaper!
When Jessica Day moves from Chicago to the small town of Bixby, Oklahoma, she’s expecting a change. But she never could’ve imagine a world like the one she finds herself in. because, in Bixby, there are 25 hours in the day. But normal humans don’t know of the secret hour- they simply freeze for one hour at midnight. Every night. They cannot tell that an hour has passed for the special few who can live in the extra hour. There people were born exa...more
When Jessica Day moves from Chicago to the small town of Bixby, Oklahoma, she’s expecting a change. But she never could’ve imagine a world like the one she finds herself in. because, in Bixby, there are 25 hours in the day. But normal humans don’t know of the secret hour- they simply freeze for one hour at midnight. Every night. They cannot tell that an hour has passed for the special few who can live in the extra hour. There people were born exa...more
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Non proprio malaccio come inizio, ma la verità è che mi aspettavo qualcosa di meglio.
Sono capitata per puro caso davanti a questo libro e quando ho letto brevemente la trama ho subito voluto leggerlo. Voglio dire.. una venticinquesima ora che scatta a mezzanotte? mostri scuri e un solo gruppo di ragazzi che può combatterli? ehi, Persona 3 è uno dei miei giochi preferiti da quand'è che è diventato un libro?
Solo che di Persona questo libro alla fin fine ha ben poco. L'idea di base è buona appunt...more
Sono capitata per puro caso davanti a questo libro e quando ho letto brevemente la trama ho subito voluto leggerlo. Voglio dire.. una venticinquesima ora che scatta a mezzanotte? mostri scuri e un solo gruppo di ragazzi che può combatterli? ehi, Persona 3 è uno dei miei giochi preferiti da quand'è che è diventato un libro?
Solo che di Persona questo libro alla fin fine ha ben poco. L'idea di base è buona appunt...more
Sep 28, 2007
Mr.G
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4 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Recommends it for:
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 arrival, the darklin...more
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 or...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 or...more
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Well, the description on the back was far more intriguing than the actual story inside. I was left pretty unimpressed by the story and the characters. It was not awful and it was easy to read and a nice original idea but it was missing the kind of spark that takes a book from 'okay' to 'compelling' for me. It mostly just lacked any sort of focused. The story just felt very jumpy and bitty to me. It was also packed full of YA clichés such as the-new-interesting-girl-moving-to-the-tiny-high school...more
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Jessica is a typical 16-year-old girl, who happens to be born at midnight. This doesn’t mean anything to her until the day she moves with her family to Bixby. Soon she discovers that she and a few others, the Midnighters, are able to live one extra hour every midnight, while everyone else is frozen. This is all fun until she learns that they are not the only ones moving through midnight. Darklings and Slithers are coming after her and she has to be protected.
The first book is introducing us to t...more
The first book is introducing us to t...more
Some of the kids here, especially girls, having been reading this Midnighters series. Not bad for kiddie fantasy, but not much meat. A bit Twilight-ish. Good for me to know what the kids are reading and be able to talk about it, but not something I'd recommend to adults unless you're looking for some reluctant reader material or another fantasy series for those who have gone through everything else you can think of.
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Basically, exactly what i expected. An interesting idea (humans born at the stroke of Midnight gain the ability to walk in a secret 25th hour of the day that is filled with evil darklings), that had enough cool info and trivia about where the The Secret Hour comes from, what the Darklings are, and what the main character's power is, to keep me interested. I just don't know if i'm interested enough to delve into the last two.
I guess i just waited WAY too long to read this one to make me really li...more
I guess i just waited WAY too long to read this one to make me really li...more
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OMG THIS BOOK SOUNDS AWESOME!!!!!
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Apr 02, 2009
Angelic Zaizai
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4 of 5 stars
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Udah selesai Midnighters 1 : The Secret Hour - Scott Westerfeld [/b:]
Menarik sih temanya..
Settingnya di Bixby, Oklahoma ..
Bayangin ada 1 jam extra setiap hari, tapi hanya orang-orang yang disebut MIDNIGHTERS yang mengalami.. di kota itu ada 4 midnighters..
Midnighters itu adalah orang2 yang lahirnya pas jam 12 malem..
Jadi selama 1 jam, semua orang "membeku", kecuali para midnighter dan darklings..
Darklings itu makhluk2 dari jaman ketika human itu masih jadi their breakfast .. jadi dari jaman bat...more
Menarik sih temanya..
Settingnya di Bixby, Oklahoma ..
Bayangin ada 1 jam extra setiap hari, tapi hanya orang-orang yang disebut MIDNIGHTERS yang mengalami.. di kota itu ada 4 midnighters..
Midnighters itu adalah orang2 yang lahirnya pas jam 12 malem..
Jadi selama 1 jam, semua orang "membeku", kecuali para midnighter dan darklings..
Darklings itu makhluk2 dari jaman ketika human itu masih jadi their breakfast .. jadi dari jaman bat...more
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Jessica Day recently just moved into a new town, Bixby in Oklahoma. Jessica struggles to fit into her new school, however, as she continues to adapt and get use to her school enviroment, she comes across other kids who are "different" from the rest. Moreover, While trying to fit into her new school, she encounters several others who're different from the rest of the students. Jessica later learns that she's different too when she experiences the "25th hour". After waking up at midnight, she foun...more
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Midnighters, May 17, 2007
A Kid's Review
Being born at midnight changed the rest of her life more than she could've ever imagined. Jessica Day, who recently moved to Bixby, Oklahoma, started having weird "dreams" when she came. Her first one happened when she woke up at the stroke of midnight and everything was frozen still. She ventures outside and the raindrops looked like diamonds in the sky until she touched it and they fell. She felt as if th...more
The Secret Hour is the first book of the trilogy called the Midnighters by Scott Westerfeld. The book is about this group of people who live 25 hours rather than 24. When the clock strikes 12, the world freezes and only the Midnighters can move. They have the whole world to themselves. Or do they? There are four Midnighters in Bixby, Oklahoma. They each have their own special talent. One day, a girl named Jessica Day moved into town. The other Midnighters realize that she is one of them. Jessica...more
That's a generous 3 stars, rounded up from 2.5.
Here's the thing:
This book was fortunate that it reminded me of a beloved episode of "Eerie, Indiana" that I enjoyed as a kid ("The Lost Hour," about daylight savings = awesome).
This book was less fortunate that it reminded me the Uglies series, also written by Mr. Westerfield. (Flying with Jonathan = hoverboarding. And I super-hate hoverboarding.)
This book was fortunate that I had a 12th grade A.P. Literature teacher that made me rip apart Joyce...more
Here's the thing:
This book was fortunate that it reminded me of a beloved episode of "Eerie, Indiana" that I enjoyed as a kid ("The Lost Hour," about daylight savings = awesome).
This book was less fortunate that it reminded me the Uglies series, also written by Mr. Westerfield. (Flying with Jonathan = hoverboarding. And I super-hate hoverboarding.)
This book was fortunate that I had a 12th grade A.P. Literature teacher that made me rip apart Joyce...more
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Westerfield's spun out an interesting idea, and I actually like that not all his characters are likable or get along with each other. He has a few inconsistencies in his story, and his use of the word "pschosomatic" made me nuts, but for the most part, it's a good story, solidly told, and male readers will probably enjoy it just as well as girls, even though the protagonist is a girl, as the narrative is told by all five main characters.
Set in modern day Bixby, Oklahoma, the series starts out ma...more
Set in modern day Bixby, Oklahoma, the series starts out ma...more
The sci-fi book, Midnighters, The Secret Hour by Scott Westerfeld, is about a young girl, Jessica moves to Bixby after living in Chicago for a number of years. From the move, she realizes so thing very different about the town, something she did not expect. At midnight the whole world freezes, yet she is up at this time still able to move around and go about her doings. Soon she ran in to others like her who called themselves themselves the Midnighters. They would go on to show her the scary tru...more
"The Secret Hour" is a pretty good book. The reason I read this book is because it was suggested to me by a friend. "The Secret Hour was written by Scott Westerfeld and it has 297 pages. "The Secret Hour" takes place in a small town called Bixby.
This book has many moments that leave you wondering what will happen next. Jessica Day is a 15 year old girl and she moves to Bixby with her family. On the first night Jessica spends in Bixby she has a really weird but realistic dream. The second night...more
This book has many moments that leave you wondering what will happen next. Jessica Day is a 15 year old girl and she moves to Bixby with her family. On the first night Jessica spends in Bixby she has a really weird but realistic dream. The second night...more
I have to admit, lately my forays into the YA world have not really panned out, so I started this book with no small amount of trepidation. Now that I have finished, I truly regret not buying the whole trilogy at once! While the main plot definitely tied up nicely, there is enough of a cliffhanger that I can't wait to start the sequel!
I loved the premise of a secret 25th hour in the day - I know there are definitely days when I have wished for just a little more time in the day (or even just an...more
I loved the premise of a secret 25th hour in the day - I know there are definitely days when I have wished for just a little more time in the day (or even just an...more
There are 25 hours in a day. We just can't see the secret hour. But in the town of Bixby Oklahoma, all those who were born at midnight can. It's off...blue, huge dark moon, and only the midnighters can actually move at all.
But there are other creatures that exist in the secret hour as well. Darklings, and slithers. They usually don't attack, but when Jessica Day shows up and realizes that she's a midnighter, the darklings and slithers come for her the minute they sense her presence.
Rex, Dess,...more
But there are other creatures that exist in the secret hour as well. Darklings, and slithers. They usually don't attack, but when Jessica Day shows up and realizes that she's a midnighter, the darklings and slithers come for her the minute they sense her presence.
Rex, Dess,...more
What a cool concept! For one secret extra hour each night, a small group of teenagers is able to move about freely--even though the rest of the town around them is frozen in time. What's going on? Why is the town like this? What do the evil darklings want with Jessica Day, the new girl in town?
I really enjoyed this book. The idea is incredibly intriguing, and I liked the descriptions of focus/out of focus, the kids' purple eyes, the wondrous flying, the injections of humor, and the beautiful nig...more
I really enjoyed this book. The idea is incredibly intriguing, and I liked the descriptions of focus/out of focus, the kids' purple eyes, the wondrous flying, the injections of humor, and the beautiful nig...more
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i thought that this book was good. it wasn't great, but i would definetly recomend this book to others. i liked the magical feel of this book. i kept me hoping that something like time freezing at 12 every night, with only a few people left in the world would happen to me. it would be dangerous and exiting, and a lot of fun, but it would also be very scary. i loved how this book was alittle remantic, but not in your typical romance type of book. it was action packed, but while i kept reading, je...more
Scott Westerfeld has a creative mind. This book exemplifies his talent for writing (as do other of his books).
The Midnighters series is about a small group of teens who have a strange talent. During the hour of midnight, in certain places in the world (such as Bixby, Oklahoma from the book) select people can roam in what's considered the "blue" time. Everyone else become still, unaware of monsters roaming around them.
These select few also gain abilities, some of which can be used outside the blu...more
The Midnighters series is about a small group of teens who have a strange talent. During the hour of midnight, in certain places in the world (such as Bixby, Oklahoma from the book) select people can roam in what's considered the "blue" time. Everyone else become still, unaware of monsters roaming around them.
These select few also gain abilities, some of which can be used outside the blu...more
There is a secret hour in the day, beginning at midnight each night; most people are frozen in time while it passes, except for those people born on the stroke of midnight, who have the ability to move about during the midnight time, and the creatures of the night who live only during that hour. When Jessica Day moves to a small town in Oklahoma, she discovers that she is a Midnighter, and she joins a small group of fellow teens and their battle against the darkling creatures, who are threatened...more
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Scott Westerfeld is a New York Times bestselling American-born author of YA sci-fi literature. He was born in the Texas and now lives in Sydney and New York City. In 2001, Westerfeld married fellow author Justine Larbalestier.
His book Evolution's Darling was a New York Times Notable Book, and won a Special Citation for the 2000 Philip K. Dick Award. So Yesterday won a Victorian Premier's Award and...more
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His book Evolution's Darling was a New York Times Notable Book, and won a Special Citation for the 2000 Philip K. Dick Award. So Yesterday won a Victorian Premier's Award and...more
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