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| Original Title: | The Secret Hour ISBN13 9780060519537 |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Midnighters #1 |
| Characters: | Jessica Day, Rex Greene, Jonathan Martinez, Melissa Blake, Desdêmona |
| Setting: | Bixby, Oklahoma(United States) |
| Literary Awards: | Aurealis Award for Young Adult Novel (2004) |
Scott Westerfeld
Paperback | Pages: 297 pages Rating: 3.81 | 28003 Users | 2007 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Secret Hour (Midnighters #1) |
| Author | : | Scott Westerfeld |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 297 pages |
| Published | : | January 2nd 2008 by HarperTeen (first published March 2nd 2004) |
| Categories | : | Young Adult. Fantasy. Paranormal. Science Fiction |
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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 night when Jess sees the frozen world for the first time, with the air filled with suspended raindrops. The author does a great job of gradually weaving the story together (though much of the book is spent on setting up the concept), and it'll be interesting to what everyone's motivations are and how certain powers will be utilized. A couple of quibbles: while I like all the characters so far and don't really mind the multiple narrators, I think reducing the number of POVs would have made the narrative stronger. In such a short novel it's already hard to get to know the numerous characters, so spending more time with just a couple of them might've tightened things up a bit. Since Rex is turning out to be a mysterious figure and it seems that Jess is actually more of the central character, I would also have flip-flopped the POVs for Chapters 1 and 2 so the book starts off from her perspective. Could be the author had a reason for doing this (deliberate misguidance, perhaps), but if so I think more time with Rex would have made this stronger. I also have to mention that the town's name gets used...a lot. I noticed this happening so many times within the first 7 pages that I decided to keep a tally as I was reading. The grand total in 274 pages? 18 mentions of name Bixby High and 95 mentions of Bixby itself. This was so unnecessary (at page 194, do you really need to explain that the sheriff you're referring to is the one "here in Bixby?") and intrusive, and I'm surprised that an editor didn't catch this repetition throughout the book. Still, the little things I'd fix are minor and my enjoyment was huge. The story set-up reminded me a lot of William Sleator's young adult sci-fi in a very good way, and I'm very much looking forward to seeing where the story goes in the next installment of the series. Splendiferous!Rating Of Books The Secret Hour (Midnighters #1)
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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, shes expecting a change. But she never couldve imagine a world like the one she finds herself in. because, in Bixby, there are 25 hours in the day. But normal humans dont 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 bornI've got to give props to Westerfeld, this was definitely an original idea. A hidden hour that lies directly at midnight that only a few can see. Can you just imagine? The clock strikes midnight and the world around you freezes, but you can still move among it. Really cool.Meet the Midnighters, a group of teens who were born exactly as the clock struck midnight thus allowing them to see the 'blue time' - the space in-between. But it's not all fun and games. Other things lurk in the 'blue time' -
I got so disappointed by this novel and will not be continuing with the series. Scott Westerfeld is an acclaimed best-selling writer, but for him to produce something so middling, I totally couldn't wrap my mind around it. The M/C, Jessica, is only mildly interesting at the beginning but then falls flat in the middle and then it's all just downhill from there.A little spark occurs toward the end but it's too late to save anything. This series is not for me, sorry.
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,
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
I LOVE this series. Although the Uglies/Pretties/Specials/Extras series is more popular, I actually like this series better. It's about five teenagers who are the only people that can move during "the secret hour", when everything else in their town freezes at midnight. Although a bit weird, the story is very exciting and the characters are well-developed. Scott Westerfeld is one of my favorite authors, and these books did not disappoint me.
This first book in the Midnighters series was a fun ride. The mythology/world of the midnighters was very different and fascinating. Also, the main character is a redhead named Jessica Day- how could he go wrong?
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