Darkest Hour

#189 in Young adult

Darkest Hour

Meg Cabot

First published 2001Young adult

7.97.9 / 10
Score out of 1083 ratingsConfidence 36%: this much of the score is the readers’ own
#189 of 200 in Young adult ahead of 6% of the category

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About the book

Darkest Hour is a young adult novel written by Meg Cabot. It is the fourth part of The Mediator series. The novel was first published in 2001 and was the last of the series to appear under the pseudonym Jenny Carroll. In the UK, it was published with the title Young Blood.

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Reading order · The Mediator

Full order & progress →
Score per volume7 volumes on a timeline, 2000 to 2016 · Best-rated volume: Twilight
  1. Shadowland
    Shadowland2000 · 127 ratingsStart here
    7.87.8 / 10
  2. Ninth Key
    Ninth Key2001 · 94 ratings
    7.87.8 / 10
  3. Reunion
    Reunion2001 · 82 ratings
    7.87.8 / 10
  4. Darkest Hour
    Darkest Hour2001 · 83 ratingsThis book
    7.97.9 / 10
  5. Haunted
    Haunted2004 · 79 ratings
    7.97.9 / 10
  6. Twilight
    Twilight2004 · 78 ratings
    8.08.0 / 10
  7. Remembrance
    Remembrance2016 · 28 ratings · Not ranked yet
    –Not ranked yet

Where the score comes from

The sources average 8.0 across 83 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 36% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Young adult average of 7.8. That is how 7.9 comes out.

SourceAverageRatingsWeight
Hardcover8.083 100%

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Darkest Hour sits on the Young adult shelf in the sources we use, which by convention means roughly ages 13 and up. This is a guide from the book’s category, not a publisher’s age rating.

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