Rotterdam Home, a hospice where teenagers with terminal illnesses went to die, was home to the Midnight Club–a group of five young men and women who met at midnight and told stories of intrigue and horror. One night they made a pact that the first of them to die would make every effort to contact the others from beyond the grave.

To be very honest here I didn’t know much about this book before actually reading it, of course I watched the Netflix series based off on this book but I didn’t know how true the series would be to this book.

This book really surprised me a lot because I really liked it a lot. And I was completely glued to it in just such a way that I read it in less than a year. 

This book is very short read, my copy of this book had only 212 pages and after finishing this book I was very mixed about this book. Because I had a lot of thoughts about this book and a lot of those thoughts weren’t quite on the same page with each other.

On the one hand this book was too short and I would get to know those characters much more and to be on a journey with them for longer than just those 200 pages but at the same time the size of this book was what I needed it to be. Because I have the feeling that if this book was longer than it would quickly become a shitty book. 

The plot in this book is very unique and I for sure haven’t come a plot like this so far. Is about hospice for teenagers with very shitty and terminal illnesses which didn’t have a long time left to live. Its a very devastating plot for sure but at the same time its very unique. 

The ending of this book was very heartbreaking, because of all the things which happen at the end but at the same time its very satisfying end. And I feel like if this book was longer then the ending would have been less satisfying than it actually was. I really like the ending, which made me give this book some extra points for. 

The characters in this book was good, we don’t get a lot of characters in this book but does we get are good. I wouldn’t say that they are very good because we get way too little time with them. The characters doesn’t have a lot to depth to them but its understandable because we only get 200 pages of this book. 

Even tho the characters in this book doesn’t have a lot of depth, they still have things that make them unique and something which makes us the readers like them. 

However I got very annoyed at the very end of this book at Ilonka Pawluk because in my opinion she was way too hopeful and she didn’t feel like the same character we spend the book getting to know. It felt like she has aged 60 years in 1 chapter out of nowhere.

The writing style in this book was very simple and easy to read. And because of the easy and simple writing style this book was very obvious that it is aimed towards the Young Adult genre fans. But I didn’t mind that because I knew from the beginning that this book was aimed towards the YA fans.

The writings style was very good here because it made the whole plot of teenager who have terminal illness less heavier and it made it easier to read with his whole heavy topic going on in this book.

This book is very powerful but at the same time it is also very sad because of the topic. But the way this book presents this very sad plot makes it likable at least in my opinion.

Even thou this book is aimed towards young adults it deals with a very mature topic. Which really surprised me when I started reading this book. But even thou the topic is very heavy and mature the punchline of this book is friendship, love and life when you know it wont last long.

I Give This Book 4 / 5