I don't know what it is about these books, but I can't get into them. Not in the can't-finish-at-all sense (its crazy easy to read, like most of Westerfeld's works), but in the sense of plot and characters. Excluding maybe Dess, I really don't like any of the midnighters. They all kinda bore me. She was the only interesting one with her obsession in finding out more about the secret hour via, well, crazy ass math skillz.

I would say this one is better than the first, just because we get more explanations on the mythos of Bixby and why the previous generations of midnighters suddenly disappeared. Oh and an adult character that is actually interesting and isn't there just to enforce rules and make the midnighter's night prowls more risky. That was nice.

My argument from the first book still stays, I think: I just waited too long to read these books. I could imagine a younger me really loving them. But now, the powers are just too tame, the story just kinda slugs along, and the characters' dramas aren't engaging enough.

But I got this far, so i will read the last book.