Thirteen Days to Midnight
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4.7 • 63 Ratings
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- $8.99
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- $8.99
Publisher Description
You are indestructible. Three whispered words transfer an astonishing power to Jacob Fielding that changes everything. At first, Jacob is hesitant to use the power, unsure of its implications. But there's something addictive about testing the limits of fear.
Then Ophelia James, the beautiful and daring new girl in town, suggests that they use the power to do good, to save others. But with every heroic act, the power grows into the specter of a curse. How to decide who lives and who dies?
In this nail-biting novel of mystery and dark intrigue, Jacob must walk the razor thin line between right and wrong, good and evil, and life and death. And time is running out. Because the Grim Reaper doesn't disappear. . . . He catches up.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In this largely successful contemporary dark fantasy, Carman's first book for YA readers, 15-year-old Jacob Fielding has both a secret power and a guilty secret. He is literally indestructible nothing can hurt him but gaining this newfound ability cost the life of his kindly but mysterious foster father. When Jacob discovers that he can share his invulnerability with others, he, his friend Milo, and the school's new girl, Oh, test its limits (in cringe-inducing scenes involving a lighter, a 12-foot fall onto a lamp, and a batting cage) and begin using it to save lives. But they learn that playing God even with the intent to help has consequences, and as Oh becomes increasingly obsessed with borrowing Jacob's indestructibility, he realizes the power has a dark will of its own, with unrelenting claws digging into my bones like a cancer. The novel occasionally suffers from moments of incoherence and its attempts at moral complexity can seem forced, but it produces serious chills and should appeal to readers who have grown out of Carman's Atherton and Land of Elyon series. Ages 12 up.
Customer Reviews
Best Book Ever!!!!!!!
This is the best book ever!!!!!!! My sister and I wish there was either a series, or make the book longer!!!!!!! DO NOT HAVE SECOND THOUGHTS ABOUT BUYING, BUY IT NOW!!!!!!!
I loved it but...
Okay, Patrick Carman rocks and all, but I was disappointed in this book. I loved the storyline and the suspense, but truly, the book was inappropriate for kids. The book cusses and is graphic. If you took that out of the book, it would be a 6 star!
So amazing
I was in English class and the teacher when she finds books left in her room puts them on the dry-erase board where anyone can see if its theirs, and I was looking and saw this book and was instantly attracted to it! I read it within 6 hours It's one of those books that you wish the book could be a series and never end! Sadly it does and it would make an awesome movie!