Bring Me Your Midnight
Ratings11
Average rating3.6
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Ratings11
Average rating3.6
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Nature of Witches and Wild is the Witch comes a lush romantic fantasy about forbidden love, the choices we make, and the pull between duty and desire. *Featuring an exclusive case only available on the first print run! Tana Fairchild's fate has never been in question. Her life has been planned out since the moment she was born: she is to marry the governor's son, Landon, and secure an unprecedented alliance between the witches of her island home and the mainlanders who see her very existence as a threat. Tana's coven has appeased those who fear their power for years by releasing most of their magic into the ocean during the full moon. But when Tana misses the midnight ritual—a fatal mistake—there is no one she can turn to for help...until she meets Wolfe. Wolfe claims he is from a coven that practices dark magic, making him one of the only people who can help her. But he refuses to let Tana's power rush into the sea, and instead teaches her his forbidden magic. A magic that makes her feel powerful. Alive. As the sea grows more violent, her coven loses control of the currents, a danger that could destroy the alliance as well as her island. Tana will have to choose between love and duty, between loyalty to her people and loyalty to her heart. Marrying Landon would secure peace for her coven but losing Wolfe and his wild magic could cost her everything else.
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It's just another paint-by-numbers paranormal YA.
Tana is a blad protagonist. She's supposedly 19 but sounds 15. She suffers from a bad case of insta-love with the ever-brooding and boring Wolfe. The forbidden romance was supposed to be the pull of this novel but I didn't care enough about these two to be concerned with whether they end up together or not. He basically tells her he hates her and everything she stands for but he also has ‘feelings' for her and her reaction is ‘this is true love'.
The theme of forbidden magic, another pivotal element, didn't receive the detailed treatment I had hoped for. Instead, it was presented as a somewhat vague concept that required unquestioning acceptance.
In sum, my reading experience can best be described as “meh.” While the book had the potential to captivate, it left me feeling indifferent.
Witchy fantasy about coming into your powers, questioning what you've been told your whole life, and being true to one's self. I thought this was a well written story with a good premise and good characters. Kind of frustrated with the FMC's decisions at times but not mad about it because it felt intentional to the character's growth.
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Are you looking for a book that will be full on cozy cottage-core magic vibes? Well, this is your book. Rachel Griffin never disappoints.
Sometimes it's hard to explain what you liked about a book and what are the things you didn't enjoy as much. For me, Bring Me Your Midnight was a love letter to the sea, foraging and crafts. Nature, in general, but more specifically how to be gentle with it while also taking what we need from it.
Rachel's writing on this book was so evocative of stepping barefoot onto a grassy field at dusk. That's the only way i'd be able to describe this book. And the romance felt like spending a cold winter day at the beach and then going home to a blanket and a hot beverage.
I loved every single part of the way this book was written, from the wording to the referencing to past events as little clues being left behind. But when words weren't enough that's when i realised "not everything that shines is gold".
Even though the chemistry between Wolfe and Tana felt instant, it also felt rushed, as if with just one look both of them already knew they'd be it for each-other. Unfortunately, insta-love is not my trope. And another moment where everything felt so rushed, was in the "third-act breakup" if i am allowed of calling it that. It happened so fast I had to reread twice to understand what was going on (because sometimes as a Spaniard, English can be difficult, okay?).
Overall this was a beautiful book and the nostalgia it gave me and the feels and vibes of it all, it was definitely worth it. So if you need a book to feel those cozy witchy vibes? Rachel's books are what you're looking for.
What a beautiful piece of work. The inclusion of witch lore that you've heard before but with a little bit of a twist. The first half of the book felt a bit slower for me as it was slow and there was a lot of setting up the world and and the history of a coven that lives in fear of the mortal “mainlanders.” The second half of the book sucked me in.
