Publisher: Eos
Date of Publication: February 2006
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 378
Source: local library
From Goodreads:
The darklings will hunt once again.
The secret hour when time freezes arrives every night at midnight in Bixby, Oklahoma. It's a dangerous time, when five teenagers are the only humans awake and dark creatures crawl out of the shadows, but at least the midnight hour is regular and predictable.
Until suddenly, the blue time comes . . . in the middle of the day.
The noise of school stops. Cheerleaders are frozen in midair, teachers brought to a standstill. Everything is the haunted blue color of the midnight hour.
The Midnighters can't understand what's happening, but as they scramble for answers, they discover that the walls between the secret hour and real time are crumbling. Soon the dark creatures will have a chance to feed after centuries of waiting, unless these five teenagers can find a way to stop them.
A desperate race against time, a mind-blowing mystery of paranormal logic, a tale of ancient evil and spine-chilling sacrifice: blue noon is the exhilarating third volume in the Midnighters series by acclaimed author Scott Westerfeld.
This is the third and final book in the Midnighters Trilogy by Scott Westerfeld. Out of the three, I'd say that this is my second favorite Midnighters book after Touching Darkness.
This book begins a couple of weeks after the big ordeal at the end of the last book. Though life is never normal for the Midnighters, things are going as normal as possible until the blue time of the secret hour happens during the day, and it's up to the Midnighters to fix things. This book was a fitting end to the trilogy, full of the usual action and twists.
I only had a couple of issues with
this installment. First, the plot seemed to be stretched out when it
didn't have to be, but then ending went rather fast, which was a little jarring. Second, the epilogue was unsatisfying.
It did give enough information to tie things off, but I don't think it
gave the audience enough time to process what the recent events really
meant for the characters. Plus, it just made me a bit sad, because not only is it the end of the series, but the end of the Midnighters as they were before.
The perks of this book were the major leaps and bounds some of the characters took. By the end I loved Rex and Melissa more than ever before. Unfortunately my favorite character, Des, had less plot time than ever, and I missed her being truly important to the story. Jessica and Jonathan were about the same, and Beth's appearances were great for the family tension but I think more could have been done with her spying on Jessica.
Just as with Touching Darkness, I enjoyed Blue Noon,
and Westerfeld definitely ties up the loose ends with the darklings,
the Midnighters, and the secret hour. However, the ending was open
enough to allow another book or two in the Midnighter world, though
they probably would not be anything like this series since the
Midnighter world is so changed.
I'm glad I picked up this series. It was a step out of my reading comfort-zone, but Westerfeld proved to me that his reputation as a good author is well-deserved.
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