Midnighters #3: Blue Noon | 
| Author: Scott Westerfeld
Publisher: HarperTeen
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Reading Level: Young Adult
Pages: 384
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ISBN: 0060519592
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Publication Date: February 1, 2007
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The five teenage Midnighters of Bixby, Oklahoma, thought they understood the secret midnight hour—until one morning when time freezes in the middle of the day. The noise of school stops. Cheerleaders are frozen in midair. Everything is the haunted blue color of the midnight hour. As the Midnighters scramble for answers, they discover that the walls between the secret hour and real time are crumbling. Soon the dark creatures will break through to feed at last . . . unless these five teenagers can find a way to stop them.
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 Third Time Still A Charm August 11, 2006
John A. League (Northern Virginia)
11 out of 12 found this review helpful
I bought Scott Westerfeld's Midnighters #3: Blue Noon back when it came out in March because I'm just that way, but I didn't get down to reading it until last week.
(An aside: that was stupid. Why wait so long? The thing only took two days to read, and only that long because I didn't have to wait in the doctor's office as long as I anticipated. So go on and get the three books and read them, back to back to back, if you've not already. If you start now you can be done in a week.)
Holy wow, Batman. What a good book.
Westerfeld took a darker turn in Midnighters #2 and accelerated down that path in this volume. Beyond just a ripping good tale, he explores the rugged terrain of fear, power and their uses, while drawing together disparate plot points from the previous books that tie up the series satisfyingly. He does, however, leave just enough hanging and unresolved at the end to give it a genuine feel--including the bitter twist at the end.
I note with both trepidation and excitement that Westerfeld seems to have deliberately left the door open for future Midnighters stories. I hope that he won't become a victim of the "genre-series-that-never-die" syndrome, but given the results of these three books, I'll certainly give a chance to whatever he puts out next.
Highly recommended
fabulous young adult horror March 1, 2006
Harriet Klausner
7 out of 9 found this review helpful
Every midnight in Bixby, Oklahoma time freezes for a blink enabling creatures to come out of the darkest shadows seeking human prey. Most people remain blissfully ignorant of this phenomena; however, five teens born at midnight and calling themselves the Midnighters, are keenly aware of how dangerous the Blue Time can be. Still they know it happens like clockwork and are prepared to help those ignorant enough to be outside in Bixby when the clock strikes 12.
That is until now when the blue time occurs for the first time as far as they know in the afternoon leaving the school and other places frozen in blue that seems even eerier than the usual midnight scenario because everyone is about stuck in time; noise except for them and the prowling monsters is creepily silent. Jessica, Melissa, Jonathan, Rex, and Dess fear the monsters will soon begin a feeding frenzy like nothing ever seen at least in recent memory. This quintet that makes up the Midnighters need answers quickly to stop a catastrophe that has been in the making for centuries.
This is a terrific entry in a fabulous young adult horror series due to a wonderful twist that brings the frozen blue light out of midnight and into the daylight. The five teen heroes know they up against it as this time their confidence wanes though they do not back down because failure leads to unbelievable consequences. Scott Westerfeld writes a wonderful suspense that can stand alone though enhanced by the previous two adventures. Adults and teens will fully appreciate this fine thriller.
Harriet Klausner
Sadly, the End February 28, 2006
Christopher Harris (Monticello, MN USA)
6 out of 15 found this review helpful
This was an amazing series. I give the series 5 stars, but this book is actually 4. It is definately intense and provided some VERY interesting solutions to the biggest problems the 5 Midnighters had ever faced, in the 2 months they had all ben together. I will tell you though, the ending is kind of abrupt, and as I flipped to the end of the book, I honestly thought that they would all have to die for them to stop the Darklings from taking over for 25 hours a day, 1 day a year. the night of Samhain, or Halloween, but as I read the last page I thought only one survived, but that is not true, only one of them dies to preserve the blue time, for the midnighters.
This also leads to the group completely disbanding, and although this is supposed to be the end of the series, it definately gives Mr. Westerfeld an out to create more books in the future. This was by no means an end, just the end to one of the New Midnighters that were created, as the member of the "Originals" perished on that awful night. I say you need to read this book, but if you have read the other 2, that is VERY obvious already, and you will definately enjoy it, you may weep a little at its end, but it will be a wonderful ride. If you have not read this series, start with Book 1, or you will be quite lost, at least at the beginning. I hope this author continues this series sometime in the future, or it does get picked up as a TV show, but I await his next book, to finish his other trilogy, "Specials," which I hope is as good as this series finale.
 Shocking ending left a bitter taste June 6, 2007
unknown
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
I loved the first two, couldn't put them down. They cut into sleep, eating, ect, possibly best book series I had read all year... then I got to number three. Maybe I hadn't payed attention in the store, but I thought I saw a book six, or something... so I never realized how near I was to the end till I reached the end... and what an ending. It was... different for sure, but ten hours after finishing the book has still left me with a bitter taste, one that has cast a shadow over the entire series for me. The end of the story was so sudden, unexpected and just... harsh, that I no longer know what to say about the trilogy. It took me half of the epologue to even figure it all out that something bad had really happened, not just that the one character was in the hospital or something. I refused to believe it and ended up having to reread the ending.... maybe its just me, but I like my books to have their happy endings. It's why I read, and while everything up to the end was a great thrill ride, it felt like the Midnighters ride suddenly went flying off the tracks and crashed in a flaming explosion as the third book ended. I never judge books by their covers, or even their beginnings, but the endings... those can make all the difference, and that's only too true for the Midnighters.
 Excellent young adult fiction June 9, 2006
Margaret (Pearland, Texas United States)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
In Bixby, Oklahoma, there are 25 hours to each day. In the 25th hour, clocks stop, people turn into what looks like store dummies, rain stands in midair, to resume falling at the end of the 25th hour. Only a few humans (the midnighters of the title), who happen to be teens (except for one other person), are awake during this hour, and they battle ancient evils that exist and come out during this time.
This book is the latest in the series (or final in a trilogy?) that finds the kids in an armegeddon sort of situation. In the final battle, each teen uses his or her special power (flight, mathematics, lore knowledge, power to use light) to fight these nightmares. The end is actually sad, and I don't want to reveal it. But I do recommend this series!
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