Mr.G's review
The Secret Hour (Midnighters, Book 1)
by Scott Westerfeld
Mr.G's review
The Secret Hour (Midnighters, Book 1) by Scott Westerfeld
Mr.G's review
rating:
recommended 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 darklings become increasingly aggressive and seem bent on her destruction.
The book is pretty fast-paced and reading of the teenagers' attempts to make sense of their situation kept my interest. Each kid has a special ability that aids them during the secret hour. One of the the girls, Dess, is a "polymath" meaning she is constantly thinking mathmatically which comes in handy as some of the only things that can ward off the darklings are multiples of thirteen..
The book is pretty fast-paced and reading of the teenagers' attempts to make sense of their situation kept my interest. Each kid has a special ability that aids them during the secret hour. One of the the girls, Dess, is a "polymath" meaning she is constantly thinking mathmatically which comes in handy as some of the only things that can ward off the darklings are multiples of thirteen..
