Blue Noon - by Scott Westerfeld
Blue Noon
By Scott Westerfeld
IF YOU HAVE NOT READ THIS BOOK - BLUE NOON BY SCOTT WESTERFELD - THEN PLEASE DO NOT TRY TO READ THIS BLOG ENTRY BECAUSE IT CONTAINS INFORMATION WHICH WILL SPOIL THE ENDING OF THIS BOOK. PLEASE CONSIDER NOT READING THIS ENTRY. THIS MESSAGE ONLY APPLIES TO THOSE WHO HAVE NOT READ THE BOOK.I'M WARNING YOU!!
Just so you know, this is, as you may have guessed, one of the Midnighter series. And another just so you know, I finished reading this book.
This is a book series I have been reading for some while, so I don't think I have to explain anything about the characters. If you don't know and this is the first time reading about this, I would suggest going back to the first Midnighter book. It's probably in the February file in the side bar with the title that says " 'Bookworm' organization! "
As soon as I saw the title and the cover of this book, I just had a feeling that there would be a problem (duh) and that the problem would be that the secret hour would come in the middle of the day, not the usual midnight.
This book was very exciting... And the wierd part was the "transformation" of Rex. And his personality change. It would be scary enough that he is half darkling, but too scary that he almost turns into one? or what would you call it? He gets all mad and gets all scary.
So, basically, the story is that the darklings made their own holiday, which just happens to be a day when the darkling time and the normal time come together. It is called the "rip," I think, in the book. In the midnight time, there are parts of Bixby where the midnight/normal time difference is weak, and some unlucky people get sucked into the secret hour. Of course, that's how darklings eat, if they get lucky. Well, the darklings made a holiday where this happens to most of Bixby, so they can eat all of the clueless people who are now in the "secret" hour. And it is up to the midnighters to save the people of Bixby.
Their plan was almost overreacting. Rex got all crazy about saving Bixby. But I guess that's how it is when you know that all of a sudden, ferocious animals, or creatures, would almost take over and eat a bunch of bewildered people.
And another thing. As you may know, Jessica became unconscious and gets trapped in the secret hour time. I thought, before they unveiled that fact, that Jessica would be dead. It was sad, even if Jessica didn't really die. And Beth (her sister) was really sad, too... Cool that now she knows about the secret, but her parents would be SO upset... And I was really tricked by the fact that Jessica didn't really die... Probably the author meant to trick the readers. But it would be cool to have such power to use electricity in your hand.
In the end, Melissa, Dess, Jonathan, and Jessica are going to "run away" and save the rest of the earth who will eventually be sucked up into the blue time. So, probably, the next books will be about "saving" the rest of the earth from being eaten by darklings. This prediction might be wrong, but I'm just guessing. And it sounds slightly boring that the next book will be about "saving the world." But who knows? Maybe it will be more exciting than I think...
Or maybe the next book won't even be about saving the world. Or maybe there is no next book, which I highly doubt... hopefully...