Title: One Hundred Candles (Past Midnight #2)
Author: Mara Purnhagen
Rating: 4/5
Pages: 240
Publisher: Harlequin
Summary from Goodreads:
"It's taken a long time for me to feel like a normal teenager. But now that I'm settled in a new school, where people know me as more than Charlotte Silver of the infamous Silver family paranormal investigators, it feels like everything is falling into place. And what better way to be normal than to go on a date with a popular football star like Harris Abbott? After all, it's not as if Noah is anything more than a friend….
But my new life takes a disturbing turn when Harris brings me to a party and we play a game called One Hundred Candles. It seems like harmless, ghostly fun. Until spirits unleashed by the game start showing up at school. Now my friends and family are in very real danger, and the door that I've opened into another realm may yield deadly consequences."
One Hundred Candles is the second book in the Past Midnight series. Haven't read the first book, Past Midnight? Well then you can check out my review here.
One of my complaints about the first book in this series was that the action wasn't enough. However, One Hundred Candles totally stepped it up in the action department. The spirits are bigger, badder, and meaner! Everything is more intensified from the first novel from Charlotte's relationships and family dynamics to the psycho killer monster that's after her! The book may have started out a little slow and I wasn't sure where Purnhagen was taking it at first but once it got going it was great! There were twists that I just didn't see coming which is always an amazing thing to have in a book.
Charlotte, as a narrator, still didn't do much for me however. I felt compassionate for her and I really did want her to see her succeed but there wasn't any real connection for me just like there wasn't in the first book. All of the characters, while extremely likeable and easy to read about, are just hard to connect to. I just didn't get the feeling that they were real people (which they're not but I still like to think they are).
Overall, even though I didn't connect well with the characters I still found this book to be very enjoyable and entertaining. It seems these books get better as the go so I can't wait to read the next installment in the Past Midnight series.
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