As you may have guessed, I REALLY like Scott Westerfeld! He is sooo cool. This was the second series by him I read and this, Secret Hour, is the first in the Midnighters series. In these books, and I guess possibly in real life, there are really 25 hours in the day instead of 24. As Scott Westerfeld describes it on one of his website, 'The extra [25th] hour is rolled up too tight to see and it flashes past most people in an instant.' Most people are not born in the amazing 1/86,400 fraction of the day that is glorious midnight, but those who are can be called Midnighters. Midnighters are the only people who live through the secret hour while all the other people are frozen, yet this only happens in Bixby, Okalhoma (too complicated! Well, not really, you'll get used to it...). Wait, one more thing...... the Midnighters are not the only ones in the midnight hour. They are creatures afraid of the number 13, like darklings and slithers. It's different when you're not on the top of the food chain...
Jessica Day is new to Bixby, and when Rex (he can tell where darklings have been and can see if some one is a Midnighter) looks at Jessica he can tell... she's not a normal daylighter. But when she finds herself in the midnight hour and Rex, Melissa (mindcaster) and Dess (polymath a.k.a math specialist. She finds 13 letter words called tridacalogisms to scare away the darklings with) check to make sure she is a Midnighter by looking at the moon (Midnighter's eyes flash purple in the blue-moonlight, sorry this whole thing is so confusing!), her eyes didn't flash. Also, almost all Midnighters have a certain power.
What is Jessica's power? Why does she seem different? Why do all the darklings and slithers want to destroy her? Ha, bet you didn't expect THAT one, but it's true! Read the series to find out all those 'whys'!
Here are some Midnighters and Scott Westerfeld links:
http://www.scottwesterfeld.com/index.htm (his website)
http://www.scottwesterfeld.com/blog/ (his blog)
http://www.scottwesterfeld.com/midnighters/index.htm (his midnighters website)
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