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Midnight's Choice

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i didnt read switchers, i need to, yet this book was good, i read it in a day, and was disappointed by the ending, i thought it was totally unfinished and i wanted to scream til i came online and saw there was a 3rd. i have to get the book. if you're looking for a good short series, i recommend this one because it draws you in and you must get more!

I popped into this book expecting the same marvelous thrills and excitement as in Switchers and was rather crest-fallen to find instead mystery and good vs. evil fluff. Oh sure it was really good and all but it didn't have the same snap to it as Switchers had. The only real word to describe it waa a little transparent and flimsy. I liked the new character, (the bad guy sort of) just fine, she really let you like him before showing his nasty side, but I still like Kevin WAY better. The vampire/phoenix thing was okay but I think she could've done soooooo much better than this. The first book was much more origonal and had alot more suspence and excitement to it then this one. The one MAJOR fault I give this book is the end. It just lets you drop instead of letting you slide down and coast to a stop. One minute it's just rolling along and the next it's gone, POOF! It's a good light read 'cause you don't have to focus very much, and the storyline is really easy to follow. Its worth a read.

Tess is a Switcher -- someone who can take on the shape of other animals as freely as they choose, until the age of fifteen, when all Switchers must decide what animal they choose to remain as for the rest of their life. Ever since the terrifying but thrilling adventure with Kevin, another Switcher, in the Arctic, Tess has been pretty lonely since she last saw him. But her world changes once again when Kevin, in the form of a phoenix, is captured. Tess has no way to save her best friend, and she fears the worst will happen. And when she meets a deathly pale, mysterious boy her age named Martin, who is a Switcher, too, she becomes introduced to a terrifying power and a heart of darkness that will rule both her and Martin forever if she can't control her desire on time. The frightening world of the vampires is soon introduced to her through Martin, and there's even more to Martin then she could have ever dreamed. As her fifteenth birthday draws closer, she must decide her future. But will that future be an eternity of something good or evil? In this gripping and powerful sequel to Kate Thompson's thrilling novel Switchers, the author writes with a brilliant emotional writing and measures up to this novel's predecessor. However, I enjoyed Switchers more then this, Midnight's Choice, but this novel was still a wonderful read and the author could not have made a better sequel.

I've read 8 books by Kate Thompson. This is the best of her books. I look forward to finishing the 3rd book in this series.
Ms. Thompson delves deeply into the inner struggle the main character has between choosing good or evil.
It's her best work that I've read so far. I'd put The Missing Link and then The Last Policeman right after this one.
You have to read Switchers first to understand where this book is coming from.
All of Kate Thompson's books are worth your time.

I actully Read the Swichers books in third and Fourth Grade. I had no problems understanding it and it was one of the many books I discovered that actully helped me with real life. I was Deeply sad when It was stolen From Me.

"Midnight's Choice" is the second book in Kate Thompson's Switchers trilogy, concerning fourteen-year-old Tess who has the ability to change into any animal at will. It begins right where the last book ended, several months after Tess and her Switcher-friend Kevin have destroyed the terrible krools, with Kevin alighting at her bedroom window in his last (and now permanent) form: a glorious phoenix. It may be necessary to have read "Switchers" beforehand, just to sort out the characters, the background history and the abilities of Switching, as it is an important point to know that at the age of fifteen, a Switcher's powers disappear, and whatever form - human or animal - that they choose is theirs for the rest of their life.

But Tess's fifteenth birthday is not for a while yet, and instead she is enjoying the exhilaration and endless peacefulness of being a phoenix alongside Kevin. But there is another force at work - Tess's pet rat Algernon is being called forth by an unknown master, to dig alongside hundreds of rats in uncovering a mysterious stone artefact. Investigating in rat-form, Tess discovers a fellow Switcher named Martin, who has very different ideas on how to use his powers than Tess and Kevin ever had. Tess herself is intrigued, even attracted to Martin's interpretation of a Switcher's power, but is just as pulled toward Kevin and his newfound glory.

And then the zoo captures Kevin, and the phoenix becomes an instant attraction. People line up for hours in order to glimpse its beauty, rendering them almost drugged by its influence. But with the phoenix set to be sold to an American collector, Tess has only a limited time to release her friend before he's lost forever. With some enigmatic advice from a visiting Lizzie (the old woman who previously helped Tess and Kevin on their trip to the Artic), Tess must find a way to save Kevin and subdue Martin, all the while torn between them and the alternating choices that they embody.

"Midnight's Choice" is a good followup from "Switchers", though I must admit enjoying the first book a lot more. Kate Thompson continues building on the mythos of the Switchers and of Tess's internal growth, but for me at least all of the characters remain quite detached - I could never feel particularly close or sympathetic toward them, and slow pacing in some areas doesn't help. Tess's parents in particular are confusing; I can't imagine any parents of a young teen letting her get away with half the stuff Tess does.

However, Tess is likeable enough, and unlike the krools of the previous book, the enemy she faces here is inside her own self. The duality of the phoenix and Martin is put to good use in examining the light and dark side to Tess herself, as is Tess's final decision on the matter. Although "Midnight's Choice" is not essential reading, those that do pick it up are likely to be interested enough to continue with "Wild Blood", the third and final book in the series.

I really did not like this book. The book was really boring.it had some good parts to it like the character Alemgon. She is a girl that can photosynthesisized herself into a Phoenix and a vampire. I think thats very cool. When I first saw the book, I was like wow this book is really great, because the cover attactched me to check it out. So now I know not to ever judge a book by its cover. I think you might want to try it if your older than me, and by the way i'm 13 and couldn't get into it. So that is what I really think of the book.

The only reason that I finished this book was because I wanted to read Wild Blood (which was just as bad.) It didn't have a very good plot-most of the time there was almost no action. I felt that a lot of the things in the story were irrelevant to the plot, and I thought that the author didn't have a good grasp of her characters. I mean, Tess is a total BRAT to her father, and all he does to punish her is send her to her room? Come on. In real life, she wouldn't have been allowed to go see the phoenix. The only thing I liked about the book was the fact that the author didn't talk down to her audience. Other than that, it was a complete wash-out.

Tess, with the capacity to take any form, continues her adventures in Midnight's Choice. This isn't the page turner that Switchers was, but it is a good, exciting story with some unexpected twists. Tess is caught between the perfection of the Phoenix and the dark immortality of the vampire, each choice having its own appeal. In some ways this book seems to be setting the stage for volume three, where Tess will have to choose her final form.

I found this book to be nothing special. The the plot and storyline weren't very exciting, and to top it all off, the author's vocabulary and wordplay didn't do much of a job in helping to grab the reader's attention. The characters weren't deep, and this particular book failed to hold my attention for long. This is, like said in another review, a good light read, perhaps if you're waiting for your favourite book to come out, or just need something to look at. But I don't suppose this'll stay in your memory for a long time.