Title: Past Midnight
Author: Mara Purnhagan
Publication: Harlequin Teen (2010)
ISBN 978-0-373-21020-6
Format: PaperBack (216 pages)
Series: Past Midnight (1)
One Hundred Candles (2)
Beyond the Grave (3)
Rating: 3
I don't believe in ghosts.
Unfortunately, they believe in me . . .
Let me set the record straight. My name is Charlotte Silver and I'm not one of those paranormal-obsessed freaks you see on TV . . . no, those would be my parents, who have their own ghost-hunting reality show. And while I'm usually roped into the behind-the-scenes work, it turns out that I haven't gone unnoticed. Something happened on my parents' research trip in Charleston-and now I'm being stalked by some truly frightening other beings. Trying to fit into a new school and keeping my parents' creepy occupation a secret from my friends-and potential boyfriends-is hard enough without having angry spirits whispering in my ear. All I ever wanted was to be normal, but with the ghosts of my past and present colliding, now I just want to make it out of high school alive . . .
I received this book from the Harlequin Teen Panel. Which might I just say is awesome?
Gosh. It is really hard for me to put how I felt about his book into words. I really like the book but I did not care for the main character. Although for me that is not that much of an anomaly. Actually, I don't really think I disliked Charlotte too much so much as I thought some of her habits were a pain in the butt and yet she did them so often that it is the only reason that they became an issue. I am feeling in a list mood so get ready for numbers and awesome pictures.
1. Through out the story everyone is too insistent that the things are energy and not ghosts. Aren't they cute?
2. Charlotte does not really do anything. And most of the characters seem more like shameless plot devices.
3. Nothing really seems to happen.
Gosh. It is really hard for me to put how I felt about his book into words. I really like the book but I did not care for the main character. Although for me that is not that much of an anomaly. Actually, I don't really think I disliked Charlotte too much so much as I thought some of her habits were a pain in the butt and yet she did them so often that it is the only reason that they became an issue. I am feeling in a list mood so get ready for numbers and awesome pictures.
1. Through out the story everyone is too insistent that the things are energy and not ghosts. Aren't they cute?
2. Charlotte does not really do anything. And most of the characters seem more like shameless plot devices.
3. Nothing really seems to happen.
4. Charlotte starts too many sentences with "My parents think this" or "My parents believe that"
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| This is completely true but then again everyone thinks I'm cool. |
It is weird but thinking back to the book I can identify the exposition, the rising action, and the falling action but the climax is strangely missing. The book tries for a double plot thing that mostly falls flat. Instead we get a book that just repeats itself in many different ways that are not really all that different. I still don't understand who those ghosts followed her. Was anything answered in the book at the end?
And yet despite all of these reasons that I can say that I did not enjoy this book I did like it. Not enough to read it again but enough to recommend it to someone who needs a break from a book that makes them think. That sentence may sound really bad but I know that people who have read that kind of book understand. Hopefully.
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