
Title: Born at Midnight
Author: C.C. Hunter
Publisher: St. Martins
Page Count: 400
Series: Shadow Falls
Discloser: St. Martins
Publication Date: March 29th 2011 (Debut Author Challange)
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Don’t miss this spectacular new series that will steal your heart and haunt your dreams, Welcome to Shadow Falls camp, nestled deep in the woods of a town called Fallen…
One night Kylie Galen finds herself at the wrong party, with the wrong people, and it changes her life forever. Her mother ships her off to Shadow Falls—a camp for troubled teens, and within hours of arriving, it becomes painfully clear that her fellow campers aren’t just “troubled.” Here at Shadow Falls, vampires, werewolves, shapshifters, witches and fairies train side by side—learning to harness their powers, control their magic and live in the normal world.
Kylie’s never felt normal, but surely she doesn’t belong here with a bunch of paranormal freaks either. Or does she? They insist Kylie is one of them, and that she was brought here for a reason. As if life wasn’t complicated enough, enter Derek and Lucas. Derek’s a half-fae who’s determined to be her boyfriend, and Lucas is a smokin’ hot werewolf with whom Kylie shares a secret past. Both Derek and Lucas couldn’t be more different, but they both have a powerful hold on her heart.
Even though Kylie feels deeply uncertain about everything, one thing is becoming painfully clear—Shadow Falls is exactly where she belongs…
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Thoughts Before Reading:
This book is either going to be hit or miss, remarkable idea. Kylie is sent to camp for trouble teens. Also, Seeing the cover on line, really doesn’t do it justice, the font for Born At Midnight is nice, the placing of the series and authors name is off, same for the font, but the cover is actually pretty, seeing it on line, I thought it was bad but behind the main tree is a forest & fog, and the girl in the middle is pretty. It works really well. ----
So I’m not sure how to start this, it was a good read. I love the idea, and when I was 80-odd-pages into it, I was thinking “Gee this is a rip-off of Kelley Armstrong’s The Darkest Power’s.” and I wasn’t wrong, but I wasn’t right, there were a lot of similarities, but there were enough differences too.
Kylie sent to a camp for troubled teens or so she thinks, it turns out the camp is for supernatural teens. She is going through a lot of things in her personal life, and she’s being stocked. . . But nobody seems to be able to see this stalker but her.
The plot was very flat I found it had it points where the book was hard to put down, but it was somewhat perceptible, not that it was bad. There were points where I was somewhat shocked at the out come it wasn’t totally flat, but in grade six when we were mapping the stories we read in class we were always asked to find the climax of the book, and there wasn’t really one. And I think that is because it was setting up for the second novel. And this is almost a back to back release dates, Born at Midnight is out in April and Awake at Dawn is out in October of this year.)
I wasn’t a huge fan of the main character, I though that of all the people in this book why is it told in Kylie’s point of view, Kylie seemed somewhat flat of a character. And I would really like for a Y.A book where more then one guy (or girl) is after the main character for there to be a reason for it! PLEASE tell me why everyone is in love with Kylie, so what shes different, since when does that mean anything? This is one of those books where I want to punch the main character, and read the books for the other character.
I found the writing somewhat flat as well, it was very plain. I would say this would be a good summer read, something that you can pick up and drop off. The book has it moments, and its a very simple read. I am not a huge fan of complex reads, so this was perfect.
I do have to say that I can not wait for Awake At Dawn, its a world that I can not wait to get back to, I’ll even stand Kylie’s point of view, because I want to find more out about the world.
Go Pick up your copy on Tuesday!