{"id":1348,"date":"2010-01-22T10:34:35","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T10:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=1348"},"modified":"2011-10-29T18:36:42","modified_gmt":"2011-10-29T23:36:42","slug":"yafantasy_midni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2010\/01\/yafantasy_midni.html","title":{"rendered":"YA\/Fantasy: Midnighters (Books 1-3), by Scott Westerfeld"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A(nother) series by the guy who writes Uglies, Pretties, whatevers.  I had read his stand-alone <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2008\/08\/sci_fifantasy_p.html\">Peeps<\/a> (but not the Uglies, Pretties, whatevers).<\/p>\n<p>1: The Secret Hour<br \/>\n2: Touching Darkness<br \/>\n3: Blue Noon<\/p>\n<p>These books are great.  Our world&#8230;but with an extra hour that happens at midnight that only a select few are &#8220;awake&#8221; in.  A band of losers whose common ground is the midnight hour, when it turns out they have a few special skills of their own.<\/p>\n<p>I really loved these. I loved the members of the group (particularly Dess). I LOVED all the wordplay (fantastic!).  I loved how the slithers seemed related to something deeply dark and ancient. I loved the transformation of the group and how their relationships changed.<\/p>\n<p>I am really going to regret that I read most of these from the library. Definitely buying up the set when I have income again!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A(nother) series by the guy who writes Uglies, Pretties, whatevers. I had read his stand-alone Peeps (but not the Uglies, Pretties, whatevers). 1: The Secret Hour 2: Touching Darkness 3: Blue Noon These books are great. Our world&#8230;but with an &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2010\/01\/yafantasy_midni.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,27,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-readin","category-recommending"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1348"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2266,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348\/revisions\/2266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}