Nicola 's Reviews > The Secret Hour

The Secret Hour by Scott Westerfeld

by
2461560
's review
Oct 21, 11

bookshelves: books-i-own, fantasy, young-adult, title-appeal, given-up-on-series
Read from October 20 to 21, 2011, read count: 1

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 but it was easy enough to ignore those. I'm not completely turned off the series and will definitely have a read of the second book as I think the story definitely has potential, especially now that it's (hopefully) moving away from the mundane descriptions of every action taking place inside the school.

Sign into Goodreads to see if any of your friends have read The Secret Hour.
sign in »

Reading Progress

10/21/2011 page 10
3.0%
show 2 hidden updates…

Comments (showing 1-2 of 2) (2 new)

dateDown_arrow    newest »

message 1: by Stephanie (new) - added it

Stephanie (Stepping out of the Page) EHHH. :/


Diana I agree with your entire post.


back to top