This book isn't terrible or anything, but the biggest problem is it's so milquetoast holy crap.

The premise is interesting -- people born at midnight are able to access an extra hour of every day where they have special powers and ancient creepy crawly evils lurk -- but the characters so uniformly unexceptional and the plot is so weak that you just sort of muddle through waiting and waiting for it to get interesting. Spoiler alert: it never really does.

Of the main characters the only one I didn't find painfully uninteresting was Dess, and even her characterization was pretty trite. Everyone else, despite attempts to make various characters seem ~edgy~, was unbearably bland.

The plot, such as it is, is all build-up with a not especially exciting climax since said climax is itself just build-up for something else. I suppose the intention is to get you to read the other books in the series, but I resent authors (or, usually, publishers) splitting stories without much meat up into smaller chunks just to get more books out of them.

2.5/5 stars.

I MIGHT read the next one someday in the hope that the vague hints that something compelling might ever happen will be borne out. But I certainly won't do it any time soon.