The Midnight Game is the latest book by YA crime writer Cynthia Murphy.
It follows a gang of school kids who meet up to play a horror-fueled game after meeting in an anonymous online chat room.
This book had me strapped in from the moment the kids entered the school after-hours to summon The Midnight Man.
The game is simple: Light a candle at midnight and give your name to The Midnight Man. Don’t fall asleep, don’t leave the grounds, and make sure your candle is lit at all times (draw a ring of salt around you quickly if it goes out!) or the Midnight Man will get you!
The main story is interspersed with pages of a web forum and text messages that, among other things, discuss other creepy, ghostly games that the characters (and readers) could choose to play.
I really enjoyed this concept as I was trying to figure out how it all fit together as the story moved along, and BOY did it all fit together!
The plot twist was amazing and once I reached the half-way point you could not wrestle the book out of my hands.
Cynthia Murphy will be attending Waterstones St. Neots in February for a YA Crime Thriller panel.
