Despite the bleak and depressing aspects where death is an inevitable outcome, it is also a powerful, touching story about acceptance, love and loss. It is a powerful story and I have a feeling thing Netflix series will bring another level to the story. Just don’t go into this expecting a thriller. The characters and their own stories indeed pulled at my heartstrings, so I can see how it affected the original targeted audience. Reviews of the original story and readers remark it was one of their childhood favorites. Their short stories were campy, but ones you would expect from a group of teens telling original stories. It’s an easy listen, and I felt for these characters, their circumstances and interactions. The story has less of a plot than I expected and differed from what the synopsis led me to believe. Sometimes ridiculous stories and often reflective mirrors of their own lives. These terminally ill teens meet at midnight and tell stories. It is a spiritual story dealing with loss and love.

The Midnight Club is more a look at morality and acceptance. Stine, is known for creepy young adult thrillers. While I knew this was a young adult novel, I expected it to have more of a thriller aspect based on the synopsis. The Midnight Club originally released in 1994 when my children were still toddlers, so we never read his books. Then one of them does die, and the story begins. The first one who dies is to make every effort to contact the others from beyond the grave… Any type of story they could think of, they would tell-ones filled with intrigue and horror, of life and death… True stories, made-up stories, and stories that fell somewhere in between.īut one night, in the middle of a particularly scary story, the five kids make a pact with each other. They called themselves the Midnight Club, and everytime they came together, they would take turns telling each other stories. It was a place of pain and sorrow, but also, remarkably, a place of humor and adventure.Įvery night at twelve, a group of five young girls and boys at the hospice came together. Rotterham Home was a hospice for young people-a place where teenages with terminal illnesses went to die. From the author of The Wicked Heart and The Immortal comes a beautiful and haunting novel about a group of five terminally ill teenagers whose midnight stories become their reality.

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