Burning Midnight

For fans of The Maze Runner and The 5th Wave, this debut YA novel from Hugo Award-winner Will McIntosh pits four teens against an evil billionaire in the race of a lifetime. Sully is a sphere dealer at a flea market. It doesn''t pay much - Alex Holliday''s stores have muscled out most of the independent sellers - but it helps him and his mum make the rent. No one knows where the brilliant-coloured spheres came from. One day they were just there, hidden all over the earth like huge gemstones. Burn a pair and they make you a little better: an inch taller, skilled at maths, better-looking. The rarer the sphere, the greater the improvement - and the more expensive the sphere. When Sully meets Hunter, a girl with a natural talent for finding spheres, the two start searching together. What they find will change more than just their lives . . . Because the entire world fights over spheres, but no one knows why they''re here or what their powers are . . . until now.

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Burning Midnight has an inventive plot, unlike any other YA sci-fi you'll have read. The book's best asset is its pace. Once it gets going, it goes hard, and the action sequences are breathlessly cinematic. SFX Magazine

Product details

• Authors: Will Mcintosh
• Publisher: Macmillan Children's Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 11.02.2016
• EAN: 9781509803569
• ISBN: 978-1-5098-0356-9
• No. of pages: 416
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 195 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Children's books up to 11 years of age; Science fiction (Children's / Teenage), Science Fiction / General, adventure; aliens; sci-fi; science fiction; romance; YA