Midnighters Trilogy by Scott Westerfeld

**Please keep in mind that there are more then likely going to be spoilers in these posts, so if you don't want to know anything - then please don't read after the first title is presented (titles are in bold print).**

One of the most recent series that I read was Midnighters by Scott Westerfeld.
Simply put this series is about five teenagers who have one thing in common, they are some of the only few people who are awake during the secret hour (which resides in exact midnight). Of course this secret time could not be a peaceful time of enjoyment, no, it is also inhabited by demons who's only desire is to remove these "Midnighters" from their time, and is a time when any modern technology does not function.

**Possible Spoilers below - you have been warned**

The Secret Hour
This book mainly deals with introducing the individual Midnighters, their personalities, their present situation. Immediately a monkey wrench is thrown into the normality of the Midnighter's lives, when Jessica moves into town.
Jessica is not like the other Midnighters, her eyes aren't photophobic like the rest of them, and she is just too normal. When Jessica is around, the darklings (those demons that I talked about earlier) go nuts.
Now it turns out that each of the Midnighters have an ability, one can read minds, one can do complex math in her head, on can see signs of the darklings, one has almost no gravity during the secret hour. There is one small problem, Jessica doesn't seem to have any ability to keep her safe during the secret hour. Jessica spends most of the book having the other Midnighters protect her with their abilities and their knowledge of darkling lore (did you know that darklings have a fear of the number 13?).
The book ends with Jessica taking a great risk (along with the rest of the Midnighters) to figure out what her ability is. She is the one that the darklings have feared would come - the one who could bring fire and light to the secret hour.

Touching Darkness
This starts to give you an insight into the past of the Midnighters (those of the previous generations), and another threat that the current generation of Midnighters must face - but with some help this time.
Jessica now has her ability, and the darklings are now scared beyond reason, everything should be cake from now on - right? Nope, life is never that simple. The long and short of it is, that some of the Midnighters discover that one of Jessica's daylight friends family may have some knowledge of the secret hour, and have found a way to communicate with darklings.
Des, using numbers and math finds a hidden spot in the midnight hour, and there is a Midnighter from a past generation (one that everyone thought was completely wiped out). All of this leads to the Midnighters making the discovery that about 50 years in the past, the Midnighters had been betrayed, and one of their own was now part of a darkling.
It turns out that the Midnighter from the past, the one that was now part of a darkling, was dying. That means that they will want another Seer.
Jessica's daylight friend's family is pulling out all of the stops to get the current seer. They succeed. He is taken as part of a darkling (the other seer is left to die in the desert), but is saved by Jessica; he is not the same though - something changed in him, he's not fully human now.

Blue Moon
This book is the one that has the fastest pace of them all, it's a non-stop thrill ride, with a shocking ending.
The seer is now part darkling, the mindcaster now has control over her ability, and everyone else is the same.
Early in the book, things start to get weird. The five Midnighters are in a school assembly, when the secret hour suddenly comes (in the middle of the morning). Things are obviously wrong, but no one can figure out what.
This one you can finish on your own. I may not fully agree with the ending, but it does provide some food for thought.