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Title: Midnighters #3: Blue Noon
ISBN: 0060519592
Author:
Scott Westerfeld
Publicate Date: 2007-02-01
Publish: 2007-02-01
List Price: $8.99
Average Customer Rating: 4.0
Format: Paperback
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1: Poor Ending To A Great Series (spoiler warning after paragraph 2)
Wow. Scott W. has stuffed Bixby, OK with five believable, distinct main characters. Even Jessica's family, with Beth (the little sister), workaholic mom, and stay-at-home dad Don seem real and not types. And he's given us a dark, intense story that moves and jumps like Jonathon's acrobatics.
So what do you say when 98% of a trilogy keeps you ripping through pages and neglecting important life duties, only to have the climactic end fizzle, stumble, and fall flat? It's not just artistic license that I personally don't like. It's not some bittersweet, catch-in-the-throat sadness. The ending is horrid.
Spoilers ahead: despite the main plot lines about the darklings and the dangers found in dusty Oklahoma, the reader (by the third book in the trilogy) has the greatest emotional investment in the two teen couples: Jonathon and Jessica, and Rex and Melissa. We are hoping against hope that Rex and Melissa will have a happily-ever-after following years of struggle and staying by each other. The author arbitrarily rips our hopes apart. Jonathon and Jessica don't get what they want either; they are ripped apart, too, but at least this is done with poignant artistry and purpose. Our emotions are deflated and left there. This is truly an artless ending with the one exception of Jessica.
I, along with other readers here, hope that this is not the last book in the series. It would lower my opinion of the writer's skill if it is.
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2: Good book but this edition missing pages
The book was good, but pages 284 to 312 were replaces with 30 pages from previous chapters. It is cleary a manufcaturing default, and I was disappointed to have to skip the thirty pages, and not know what happened towards the end.
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3: Midnighters3:Blue Moon
A new convert to SCIFi and YA via Twilight saga, I found the Midnighters Series a great quick read, mentally (visually) creative and engaging. Took me a while to admit I was reading YA books, but now recommend all I like to everyone. The whole group of 'miscasts' with special powers is such an allegory on each persons gifts and talents, even when not magical. Am providing my series to the
local middle school library.
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4: Great series - not just for young adults!
Even though this series is for teens/young adults, I found this series quite engaging, and I have teenagers myself! Alot of action and suspense in this book and the bittersweet ending was a surprise. I'm still confused on the whole ripple concept, but that's understandable, these things are difficult for me to grasp. I loved all the 13-letter words and Dess' math magic was always amazing. The characters and their interaction with each other was always entertaining, especially Dess and Melissa. I am really enjoying books by this author and I especially liked this series.
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5: Blue Noon
Now here is a man who knows how to end a series with a bang, quite literally. While some of the incessant recapping gets to be incredibly annoying, the plot is moved along really well. You know the characters now, so the things they do make more sense, although Rex & Melissa, v. 2.0's characters are still gradually being advanced. Much like Breaking Dawn, I love how the focus is on logic vs. 'let's go kill things!' Things are thought out, plans are made, and it all involves actually thought and regard for history instead of running into battle, killing things left and right with no clear cut plans whatsoever. Those books just annoy me. Way to bring thinkers into your books, Westerfeld! Loose ends are tied up, and the story is brought to a bittersweet, open-ended close, bringing things full circle. I found myself thinking multiple times of the series as a whole. What if it had been five books, one per character, instead of just the trilogy? Will we ever get a short story or another book even for what happens afterward? My only complaint, in the end, is that we never got to learn much about Jonathan's life, why he thinks the way he thinks, what his home life is like. Not much at all. Nevertheless, it is a mostly satisfying conclusion that I think everyone was happy with.
Rating: 5/5
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