The Dead of Night by Peter Lerangis is the third book of the Cahills Vs. Vespers series, the follow-up series of The 39 Clues. In this book, Amy and Dan Cahill are searching for a stale orb to trade to Vespers to keep their kidnapped family members safe. Dan's best friend, Atticus, has been kidnapped, and he is determined to save him. Atticus's older brother Jake has decided that the Cahills are in something much deeper than he had first suspected and declares his intentions to help them rescue his brother and find what they are looking for. To add to the confusion Dan is already feeling, while on their search he keeps receiving text messages from someone who calls themselves by the initials of his father, who he had believed had died when he was really little. Was it possible that his father was alive? And if he was, why hadn't he tried to contact them before now? This book is packed full of action as Amy and Dan run from one place to the next searches for clues that will save their family. All the action keeps the reader engaged and wanting to keep reading to find out what will happen next.
One thing that bugged me about this book, though, was that it kept changing which character's point of view the scene was seen through. This alone wouldn't bother me; I do that a lot myself when writing. What bothered me was that it did it in an overlapping way several times throughout the book. It would tell the beginning of a scene as it was perceived by one character and then tell the ending part of the scene as it was viewed by another character, but not starting at the point where the first part ended. It overlapped by a few things that happened. It was confusing what was going on when they kept switching, and, at one point, I reread the two segments three times and still couldn't figure out what had happened exactly. The two seemed to contradict each other.
Other than that, this book was a really good, easy read.
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