Nightfall, by Jake Halpern, Peter Kujawinski
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The dark will bring your worst nightmares to light in this gripping and eerie survival story, perfect for fans of James Dashner and Neil Gaiman.On Marin’s island, sunrise doesn’t come every twenty-four hours—it comes every twenty-eight years. Now the sun is just a sliver of light on the horizon. The weather is turning cold and the shadows are growing long.Because sunset triggers the tide to roll out hundreds of miles, the islanders are frantically preparing to sail south, where they will wait out the long Night.Marin and her twin brother, Kana, help their anxious parents ready the house for departure. Locks must be taken off doors. Furniture must be arranged. Tables must be set. The rituals are puzzling—bizarre, even—but none of the adults in town will discuss why it has to be done this way.Just as the ships are about to sail, a teenage boy goes missing—the twins’ friend Line. Marin and Kana are the only ones who know the truth about where Line’s gone, and the only way to rescue him is by doing it themselves. But Night is falling. Their island is changing.And it may already be too late.
Nightfall, by Jake Halpern, Peter Kujawinski- Amazon Sales Rank: #68400 in Books
- Published on: 2015-09-22
- Released on: 2015-09-22
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.50" h x 1.20" w x 5.75" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 368 pages
From School Library Journal Gr 6 Up—In the bucolic village of Bliss, residents are hurriedly packing and cleaning their houses for their seasonal migration to another island. In this case, seasonal is every 14 years, and a first-time event for fraternal twins, Marin and her brother, Kana. Soon to be picked up in boats by furriers, the families are urgently trying to beat the receding tide that denotes the beginning of a long freeze that human inhabitants would not survive. Hints that less hospitable creatures take over the town in the off-season make it imperative that everyone board the boats, but when Marin loses her sunstone necklace in the woods, her boyfriend, Line, naively runs off to find it. Fatefully, all three are left behind as darkness and cold temperatures descend in this cycle of night. Marin's dark complexion differs dramatically from her pale-skinned twin, and Kana's eyesight, which once blinded him in sunlight, now becomes an asset in the darkness. Upon finding Line, the trio searches for a boat they believe is hidden on the island, their only hope of escape. Suspense builds as Line is injured, creatures emerge from the shadows, and Kana holds a dark secret about his birth from the two of them. Magical realism combine with elements of a medieval survival story, as the teens ward off gangrene with herbal poultices and fight off witchlike creatures. VERDICT A mildly satisfying, stand-alone read for middle school horror lovers.—Vicki Reutter, State University of New York at Cortland
Review “Halpern and Kujawinski invent a fascinating world that comes to life, full of intriguing monsters . . . . The teens' desperate journey to find their way off the island will keep readers turning pages.”—Kirkus Reviews
About the Author Jake Halpern is an acclaimed journalist, author, and radio producer who has written for several publications including The New Yorker and The New York Times Magazine. As a contributor at NPR, Jake produced one of the most listened-to episodes of This American Life. He co-wrote the Dormia series with Peter Kujawinski and is the author of Bad Paper, a nonfiction book for adults. For eighteen years, Peter Kujawinski was an American diplomat, on assignment in places like Israel, Haiti and France and at the United Nations in New York. Most recently, he was the U.S. Consul General in western Canada, which included Alberta, Saskatchewan and the Northwest Territories. While working as a diplomat, he started to write for adults and children. He has contributed to the international edition of the New York Times, and with co-author Jake Halpern, Peter wrote the Dormia trilogy (Dormia, World's End and Shadow Tree). He lives in Chicago with his family.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful. An exciting, thrilling, but flawed read *SPOILERS* By Psychozoober I have to say, Nightfall was a thrilling and highly disturbing novel. The story will leave you with chills, and you'll be checking under your bed every night, I promise you that.But no book is perfect. So here I am to point out all the issues you would never have noticed (maybe) and give my honest opinion of Nightfall (possibly).First of all, a warning and a summary. The warning: I am going to spoil things. SPOILER ALERT! Don't get mad at me if I wreck the ending or anything. You have been warned...A summary of the plot:There is an island home to a village of people surrounded by forests and wilderness. But on this island, Day lasts 14 years and Night lasts the same. Every 14 years when Night falls, the people from the village pay furriers from the North to take them to the desert isles to be safe for the remains of Night. Then, they return to their island for the 14 years of Day.There are three children, age 14, the main characters of this story. Marin is a tough and intelligent girl, Kana is her strange but sweet twin brother, and Line is their friend. Before the sun sets, the village is arranged to perfection, with all of the furniture placed perfectly. No one knows why these customs happen though, but they do.But Line goes missing before they depart for the Desert Lands. Marin and Kana try to find him before the ships leave, but after they locate their friend, the furriers and the rest of their town have already left.The three friends must learn to survive the Night until they can be rescued or find their way off the island.I'm too lazy to explain the rest in detail, so here's the basics: it turns out that the island is occupied by these creatures with reptilian feet and superhuman powers through Night, and it turns out that Kana is a young one of them (though he didn't realize for a while). They manage to escape the island - and the book ends.Before I spiral off into criticism, here are some things I liked about Nightfall:It's extremely creepy: I found this book highly disturbing (which can be a good thing). The description of the eerie calm, quiet Night is very exciting and interesting. In the critical section, you can read about some Nighttime complaints I had.The story: Nightfall is an extremely creative book. I mean, how do you come up with a plot that good? The storyline is overall very good, with an intelligent overall idea.Parts of the storytelling was excellent: ...but parts weren't. Anyway, you can read my complaints later. The beginning was set up very well, with the conflict between Marin and her mother as well as the strange customs of setting the tables, arranging furniture, and the odd taxidermy in Line's house. Very interesting.Now for what I didn't like:Writing style: Now, I understand that this book is written by two people. That in itself holds a challenge. But I found the writing...slow. It just didn't really work. Switching between characters randomly and having then in different places was odd at times. I just found the writing style odd and slightly boring in places.Night's creatures: In the beginning of the book, we're set up to have thrilling and exciting encounters with some spirits or something on the island during Night. I just didn't find the Nighttime creatures...creepy enough. They were monsters, which is a decent idea, but not with the same fantastical mystery I expected. I was excited to see what mystical spirits, ghosts, etc resided on the island. But I was disappointed in the humanoids that live on the island during Night. I wanted to see some variety, less scary toothy monsters and more disturbing, spiritual, mystical, ghostlike creatures. The point of the Night is that it brings out the eerie, creepy, disturbing things that haunt human nightmares. I just didn't see that in the monsters Nightfall's authors selected for their book.Kana's transformation: The fact that Marin's twin brother Kana is actually one of the Night creatures is an excellent plot twist. But it just wasn't pulled off well. We see Kana pull off his boots to reveal long claws and scales. I just expected something more exciting, more creepy for his transformation. Maybe he almost kills Marin in a fit of rage, and then runs off. We don't know why he's done this, until the authors reveal his talons. Something dramatic. I didn't really get that it was such a big deal from how the authors wrote this part.The end of the book: Okay, this is probably my main complaint. I can get past the Night creatures, the slightly slow writing, etc, but the end...the end... it bugs me. So, SPOILER ALERT, in the end of the book, Line, Marin, and Kana make it off the island in a boat. And it ends. With them in the middle of the ocean. Nothing else. That's it. And it's just not right. It's okay if Nightfall was the first in a series. But it's not. If I wrote the book, I would have ended it with them reunited in the Desert Lands, or having Kana stay behind and a sad, touching moment with him and Marin. Not the odd, not quite happy but not quite sad ending the two authors went for.Overall: I just expected...more. The book was set up well, but it didn't hold up. I wanted more spirits, more otherworldly creatures, and just more. More plot. More thrill. More excitement. More.But it is enjoyable and very interesting. Excellent plot idea. Very fun to read, and creepy too. Worth reading, but not as fabulous as it could have been.
12 of 15 people found the following review helpful. Loved! By Bookworm Nightfall was one of my must have books because well just look at that cover and also the summary was super creepy. Which as you all know I am in the creepy mood nowadays so basically it was calling my name. When it showed up on my door with the most amazing packaging ever (see picture) I knew I was in for an amazing adventure and wow! Jake Halpern & Peter Kujawinski totally delivered on this one!!I think the summary does a fantastic job at detailing what Nightfall is about. What you don't get though from the summary is just how intense this book gets. When the boats arrive to take the villagers away from Bliss there is an intensity in the air and when we are told their might not be enough boats my heart started pounding. I knew what had to happen for Line, Kana, and Marin to miss this boats, but man I couldn't stop hoping they would make it back to the boat!! When they finally do make it back to the boats luggage is everywhere and it looks like it was chaos boarding. This made me wonder and not for the first time why everyone had a sense of urgency to leave before nightfall. A few chapters in we find out.Like I said I really enjoyed this story. It was creepy, exciting, and downright thrilling throughout. The only thing I wanted that I didn't get was a backstory. We kind of hear a few things, but I wanted so much more. A backstory would have helped me understand a little more about the island, but honestly even without it this story was still amazing and one of my favorites this year. Plus there is a twist that I promise will blow your mind!! I'm still trying to figure out how I missed the clues to it!!I also enjoyed the characters. It was a breathe of fresh air not to have a love triangle, drama, or romance as a major focal point. Lately I have been looking for books that have different focal points and this one fits beautifully. Line, Kana, and Marin were interesting characters and they each stole my heart in different ways. Were they perfect, no, but are kids ever perfect? They were real and honest and I really enjoyed reading their story.This is definitely one of my favorite reads. It's one that I think I will probably reread and I hardly ever do that, but I feel like I read it so fast that I probably missed a few key points and I want to know all the key points of this story. Just truly fun and amazing!
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. An Easy But Fun Read By Suzanne in GA Although this book is targeted for young adults, I really liked the premise, so i wanted to give it a shot. This book follows Marin and her brother, Kana, who struggles with virtual blindness on their bright, sun filled home land of Bliss. The island of Bliss experiences fourteen years of sunrise, followed by fourteen years of sunset. As the book opens, the island is on the verge of sunset, and Marin and Kana are preparing for their departure from the island to the desert lands, where they will spend the next fourteen years with their community. Preparing for sunset involves many strange rituals: putting out dinner plates, cleaning homes from top to bottom, and pouring lime around the front door of your house. As the rest of the community begins leaving the island, Marin and Kana get left behind with their friend, Line, and begin to discover the ancient inhabitants of the island of Bliss.This book was well written, and I enjoyed it. Although it was a bit "young" for me, I thought the story was original and well written. I finished this book is a few hours: it's a quick, easy read, and it has a few surprises in it.
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