Reviews

Midnight Is the Darkest Hour by Ashley Winstead

preciosa's review

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

selenaclemons's review

dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

jesskathleen's review against another edition

challenging dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.75

lauren_pleszko's review

dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

chloescool's review

mysterious slow-paced

2.0

So so boring 

melissabrokaw's review

dark mysterious sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

riahxyz's review

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

3.0

Entertaining. But I think there were some plot devices that were a little weird.

An angry mob? Are we for real?

carlieulman17's review

2.5

I wanted to love this book so much. But then it turned into twilight fanfiction and kind of went off the rails 😅 overall was pretty fun to read though! 

lunaseline's review

3.0

Jag sitter och pratar med min bror om hur skolbarn idag inte känner igen berättelsestrukturer eller läsförståelseledtrådar ens om man kastar det i ansiktet på dem.
Sen läser jag Winsteads mörka kriminalroman om Twilight-besatthet, vampyr-proxy-personer, drognätverk tillika bikergäng, sekter tillika kristna kyrkor, naiva by-flickor som egentligen är vuxna, psykopatliknande hämndbehov, träskmarkslegender, oxy-epidemin, pedofili, barnmisshandel, inbrott... och tänker trött "Jaha, det här har man ju läst förr".
Jag och dagens skolbarn har väldigt lite gemensamt, med andra ord.
Och även om jag är orolig för deras bristande förötåelseförmåga är jag inte helt säker på att det alltid är roligare att ha läst mer.
Midnight... är lite halvrolig att läsa till att börja med, men jag tröttnar ganska snart och tycker det är för mycket. Winstead får ihop det, och får till slutet, så jag kan egentligen inte klaga. Men själv behöver jag inte få allt kastat i ansiktet, liksom.

cross_a16's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

This book was REALLY tough to rate. I landed on a 3.5. 

This is my first Ashley Winstead novel and I’d like to try others, because I enjoy her writing style(besides the overuse of the word “thick”). I enjoyed the Louisiana setting, and I’m always interested in a corrupt church cult. And I think readers loved or hated the Twilight references, and I appreciated them. I, too, was a HUGE Twilight fan in my early teens, and the teenage fantasy of a supernatural being sweeping you off your feet and loving you forever is relatable. 

However, this book was entirely too much. Too many characters, too much going on, too much time hopping. I am fully in support of a dual timeline(dual as in TWO, max) but this book went from present day to when she was 17 back to present day back to when she was 20 then back to present day then back to when she was 18 and I absolutely could not keep the series of events in chronological order straight in my mind. Nor could I keep the characters straight because there were too many of them, and the author went back and forth between using just their first names, just their last names, and their first and last names together. 

The ending was…wild. I would have preferred SLIGHTLY more closure, but I think I actually kind of liked the theatrical chaos of it all. 

Overall, if you asked me if I liked this book, I cannot answer. If you ask me if I recommend this book…I can’t answer that either. 🤣