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    Touching Darkness

    By Jaime Rush

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    “I’m hooked on Jaime Rush’s exciting, sexy paranormal series!”

    —Janet Evanovich

     

    One of the most exciting new names in paranormal romance is Jaime Rush—who follows her phenomenal Perfect Darkness and Out of the Darkness with Touching Darkness, the latest in her breathtaking Offspring series. Fans of TV’s Heroes and Torchwood—and of the dark and sensuous fiction of Jeaniene Frost and Vicki Pettersson—will thrill to Rush’s tales of the now-grown children of a dark experiment that left them with great powers…and in grave peril.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateApr 27, 2010
    ISBN9780061991486
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    Touching Darkness
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    Jaime Rush

    Things that go bump in the night have always fascinated Jaime Rush. Sometimes those things are human; other times, not so much. Her new Hidden series reveals humans with the essence of gods who walk the knife's edge between Miami and a magical world of passion and danger. Part dragon, angel, or sorcerer, they must fight their own kind, demons, and the lure of their darkest nature. Jaime is the author of the award-winning Offspring series and writes romantic suspense (The Justiss Alliance series) as Tina Wainscott. Altogether she has published twenty-eight novels and five novellas. Contests, sneak peeks and more at www.jaimerush.com.

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    • 3/5
      A nice followup. The stakes are higher, some of the implications of the central premise are expanded. It still feels a little by-the-numbers but the characters have enough depth to keep me interested even when the plot is a little rote.
    • 5/5
      I really enjoyed this book. It focused on the other midnighters, Melissa, Rex, and Dess. Melissa, Rex, and Dess got more developed as characters, we learned their pasts. Sadly, Jonathan and Jessica remain as shallow as before. Jonathan was annoying before and still annoying. The only slightly confusing part was Dess's part with the physics and calculations and the whole history part of it. It took a couple reads to fully understand the physics and calculations Dess was doing, but I still found it slightly dull. I didn't really think ALL of it was necessary to understand Dess's chapters. I really liked how each midnighter got their own chapter this time, versus every single chapter being about Jessica. Jessica was so silly and naive sometimes I wanted to slap her. It was hard to believe that she was the hero of the story. Jonathan and Jessica seems like they were younger and much more immature than the rest. Melissa and Rex's pasts were finally revealed and then, you finally get why Melissa acts the way she does. In the first book, she was kind of annoying, but now I understand. The plot twist at the end was surprising. I thought it would be the cliche plot, the superheroes save the victim at the last second before something bad happens to the victim. Jessica is too late to completely save Rex from his horrible fate, but she still manages to help Rex. This book was definitely darker than the first, where their group was all happy and helping each other and were all like "I love midnight". This book digs deeper and shows that their group really is dysfunctional and that midnight is dangerous and that their powers aren't necessarily good. I was going to give it 4.5 stars, but apparently that isn't an option so I'll just round up.
    • 4/5
      A very fascinating entry to the YA genre! I love that this series is fresh and different! I dont believe I have read anything like it! The characters are not all likeable, but the are original and different! A good read for all ages!
    • 4/5
      After reading the first book, I couldn't wait to get my hands on this one! I have to say, Touching Darkness did not disappoint me. I was delighted to be back in Midnight and back with the 5 MidnightersI am so happy that this book explored the other Midnighters rather than just focus on Jess, as I felt that they needed a little more attention in the first novel. Touching Darkness did just that, and I was utterly fascinated with the focus on Dess and her mathematics. I am also really happy to see the Midnighters a little less "Go Team" and have more problems between the 5 of them. I felt this made them completely more realistic, more like 5 teenagers who are put in this situation together. I was completely fascinated (and creeped out) by the halfling and the evil that came along with the Darklings. Westerfeld did an amazing job creating this image and showing the Midnighters horror at it - it certainly drew me into the story even more than I was before! This book was a great follow up to the first novel, and if you have read the first one, this is a must read!
    • 2/5
      Not as strong as the first for me and it seemed a little busy with calculations, but then numbers are not my thing, and in the Midnight they are essential. It was interesting to learn more about the characters, particularly Dess and Melissa, both of whom suprised me in this book by not being exactly what I thought they were. A solid read just not as personaly as engaging as the first for me. Still looking forward to the trilogy being wrapped up in the last book
    • 5/5
      This is the second book in the series and is just as good as the first. Lots of action without losing the characters. That can be hard to do. I still think it is a fascinating concept and it is done so well that it really does not take too much of a stretch to believe it.
    • 4/5
      Summary: Now that Jessica's discovered her secret talent, and the Midnighters have found an effective weapon to keep the darklings at bay, it seems like things might be settling down in the town of Bixby, Oklahoma. Jessica's finally learning to enjoy the secret midnight hour, when time stops for everyone except her and her four fellow Midnighters. But they've all forgotten that danger can come at times other than midnight, and from sources other than the darklings. It seems impossible, but they discover evidence that regular humans know about the midnight hour, and that they want something that will imperil the Midnighter's lives, something bound up with the evil that stalks the blue hour of midnight... and something to do with why there are no Midnighters older than sixteen.Review: Oooh, so good. Just as good as the first, really. These books are compulsively, addictingly readable - I stayed up well past the midnight hour reading this one, practically tearing the pages I was in so much of a hurry to find out what was going to happen, and how it was going to end. Westerfeld's got a deft touch with the creepy, populating his world with a good balance of psychological menace and out-and-out gruesome nightmare fodder. (It's also highly effective - as I was getting out of my car last night at a few minutes before midnight, my neighbor's black cat followed me up to my front door, and Westerfeld's world is creepy enough that I was tempted to touch my metallic front door handle and whisper a tridecalogism as darkling deterrent.) He's a little bit cagier with his clues this time around; I suspect the necessities of the story ran afoul of some bits of the anchoring reality, and he opted for poetic license for some and slight obfuscation about the rest. The world of midnight still hangs together extremely neatly, though, and as I suspected, he adds to the lore and answers quite a few of the dangling questions from the first book.Westerfeld creates his characters as effectively as he creates his world. I particularly enjoy that the Midnighters aren't some group of super-powered heroes out to save the day - well, they are, but they're also normal teenagers, complete with the full array of teenager neuroses, jealousies, petty bickering, and sarcasm. That's true in the first book as well, but I felt like in Touching Darkness, Westerfeld did a very nice job of getting inside the heads (sorry, bad pun, considering one of them is a mind-reader) of each of the kids, looking at the way their individual gifts have both saved and scarred them, and making them into multidimensional people rather than flat stock characters. Overall, I am enjoying the heck out of this series, and unless Westerfeld totally flubs the third book, it's going to unseat the Uglies series in my ranking of Westerfeld's books. (Still doesn't beat Peeps, though; not enough biology!) 4 out of 5 stars.Recommendation: These books aren't stand-alones, so don't read this one first. Go pick up The Secret Hour first, and then I suspect my recommendation about whether or not to read Touching Darkness will be totally moot.
    • 4/5
      This book is darker than the last, and pleasantly so. More lore is revealed and both the humans and the darklings get a little creepier. A good read!
    • 4/5
      This was definitely better than the first. I didn't want to stop reading. Perhaps because I felt more connected to the characters and therefore concerned about their survival. Interesting to learn about this new world that Westerfeld created. I must admit that this whole series is a rather ingenious concept and I can certainly see the appeal to young readers. Very eager to see how this trilogy finishes out - the third one looks like it could be even better.
    • 4/5
      Again, i loved it. That seems to be a recurring theme!!
    • 4/5
      This is another great read from Scott Westerfeld.
    • 4/5
      The Midnighters are forging themselves into a tighter unit and now they find that there are other adults that know something about the Secret Hour. The Darklings have a plan and some human help, the teenagers have to keep themselves alive and fight the evil.Interesting but a book that really needs you to have read the prequel relatively recently.
    • 4/5
      Jessica is finally coming to terms with being a Midnighter and with the protection her power brings to the Blue Hour. That is, until she learns she is being stalked during the normal daylit hours. Soon Jessica, Jonathan, Rex, Melissa and Dess learn that there is more to fear in the world than just the darklings and the ancient evil is more than able to stalk them at any time it chooses.Once again I really loved Westerfeld's story. Although Touching Darkness didn't have the frantic pace the first story did I really enjoyed the more laid back pace and the interesting history uncovered by the Midnighters. But that's not to say the story wasn't exciting. The climax of the book had me reading as fast as I could (and yelling at those who just had to keep interrupting me!) to find out what would happen next. All in all I'm really enjoying the Midnighters world and am looking forward to reading the last book in the trilogy.
    • 4/5
      Second in the Midnighter’s series. In this one, Jessica Day has found her Midnighter power. Also, it’s not just slithers that are after Jessica and the rest of the gang, now humans also want to get them. Great addition to the series. Can’t wait for the next one.
    • 4/5
      Jessica Day knows of the secret of the midnight hour, and has even come to enjoy the secret she shares with her new friends. But the danger has not passed, as she would like it to. Someone has figured out the secret, and wants in.