Scott Westerfeld
Aug. 8th, 2006 03:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sharplittleteethHome sick. Throat infection. Bleargh.
At Caberet Nocturne last Friday, I was chatting to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
jan_event after his victorious return from the San Diego comic con. He told me about a writer named Scott Westerfeld, who had written some interesting sounding YA books.
One was the Midnighters trilogy, about a group of teens born at midnight. Now every midnight, times stops and they get one secret hour to themselves. Except that secret hour is actually the last hiding place of monsters that used to hunt mankind.
andricongirl picked me up a copy of the first one to read on my sick bed. It's a light, fast read (being YA), and I can't read this sort of thing without getting flashes of Buffy. But it was fun. I would have loved it when I was a teen. Especially since the main characters are social misfits in black.
The other book JAn talked about was So Yesterday, about teenage cool-hunters in New York. It sounds like a cross between William Gibson's Pattern Recognition and Max Barry's satires.
I haven't read the book yet. But I have been to its website. Which has a really interesting approach to the free sample.
It's a Flash-based photo gallery of New York scenes. And each photo is linked to a paragraph of the novel. Which means you can read enough to get a good taste of the novel. But it's easier to just go out and buy the damn thing than to read it all online.
At Caberet Nocturne last Friday, I was chatting to
jan_event after his victorious return from the San Diego comic con. He told me about a writer named Scott Westerfeld, who had written some interesting sounding YA books.One was the Midnighters trilogy, about a group of teens born at midnight. Now every midnight, times stops and they get one secret hour to themselves. Except that secret hour is actually the last hiding place of monsters that used to hunt mankind.
andricongirl picked me up a copy of the first one to read on my sick bed. It's a light, fast read (being YA), and I can't read this sort of thing without getting flashes of Buffy. But it was fun. I would have loved it when I was a teen. Especially since the main characters are social misfits in black.The other book JAn talked about was So Yesterday, about teenage cool-hunters in New York. It sounds like a cross between William Gibson's Pattern Recognition and Max Barry's satires.
I haven't read the book yet. But I have been to its website. Which has a really interesting approach to the free sample.
It's a Flash-based photo gallery of New York scenes. And each photo is linked to a paragraph of the novel. Which means you can read enough to get a good taste of the novel. But it's easier to just go out and buy the damn thing than to read it all online.
