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books I’ve read in 2023 📖 no. 110

Bring Me Your Midnight by Rachel Griffin

“I watch him, impossibly beautiful in the moonlight. I press my lips to his. He comes alive in darkness, so darkness I become.”

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✨ BOOK REVIEW ✨

Bring Me Your Midnight by Rachel Griffin

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Ohhh this book. This book made me feel so many feelings.

I was so emotionally attached to Tana and I felt everything she felt so keenly. My heart raced in her stressful moments, I cried for her and with her, I fell in love with Wolfe alongside her.

Tana is such an incredible main character. She’s such a GOOD person. She’s decent and kind. She wants to do the right thing. Most importantly, she’s willing to accept new facts and allow her point of view to shift. She’s also so strong. To be able to go after the life she wanted no matter the cost, because she knew the cost of not going after it would be greater, was just so incredibly brave.

I really liked Wolfe as a love interest. He’s dark and brooding and completely and utterly a stereotype and I didn’t care one bit. He loved Tana so, so much and that love was palpable.

I was so engaged by this from start to finish and I can’t recommend it enough.

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Currently Reading: Bring Me Your Midnight by Rachel Griffin

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Rating: 5/5

Book Blurb: 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.

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.

Review:

Forbidden magic, a mysterious boy, family secrets, and a love that would crash into her life like the waves that she dives into. Mortana Fairchild is a witch, she lives on an island that is home to both witches and mainlanders who think witches are a threat and in order to maintain the alliance her marriage to the governor's son, Landon, will secure the alliance between witches and mainlanders alike. Tana's life has been planned all along and she's been raised to put duty and her coven before her own happiness... yet on a mysterious night she meets a strange handsome witch named Wolfe who will shake her foundations and beliefs in everything she was raised to, starting with the fact that he practices high tide magic, or what she was lead to believe was dark magic and that the deadly flowers her mother told her about is actually note deadly at all. Tana and Wolfe have a connection despite the fact that they are from opposing covens, they find themselves constantly drawn back to each other, but the more time they spend together the more Tana is beginning to realize that her coven's secrets and her own family's secrets might not be worth sacrificing everything, particularly her own happiness because Wolfe makes her want to be selfish for the first time in her life. Yet Wolfe has his own motives, and when his secret gets out, it might destroy the blossoming relationship between him and her. Can Tana decide what path to follow: her duty or her heart? Will she marry the governor's son or the boy who has crashed into her life? This was such a captivating and wonderful story. I had the pleasure of meeting Rachel and hearing her talk about how she wrote Tana and Wolfe's love story to be a bit like Morticia and Gomez, completely fits. I adored this boo so much, it just captures you and sweeps you along and you feel yourself entranced until the very end. It's a lush atmosphere, a gorgeous love story, and just so beautiful!

*Thank you Netgalley and SOURCEBOOKS Fire, Sourcebooks Fire for sending me an arc in exchange for an honest review*

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Thanks to Sourcebooks Fire and Rachel Griffin for providing me with an ARC in exchange for an honest review

✩🌊🖤Review:

I never wanted this book to end! 

“Bring Me Your Midnight” follows Tana Fairchild, a witch fated to marry Landon, the son of the governor on the mainland, to secure an alliance between their two peoples. But when Tana misses a ritual that will release her pent up magic into the ocean, she turns to Wolfe Hawthorne, a witch that practices dark magic, for help. Rather than aid her in performing the ritual that has made the sea more violent, he teaches her his forbidden magic—a magic that makes that makes her feel more alive and question whether she should follow her heart or fulfill her duty to her people.

What I love most about this book is the atmosphere Griffin creates. Her descriptive prose immerses the reader in the Witchery’s close knit, island community and beautifully captures Tana’s bond to the sea, a bond that was forged the moment Tana first swam in the ocean and left with salt clinging to her skin. I enjoyed the way Griffin personified the ocean and made it Tana’s safe place. 

I also like how the ocean is inherently connected to the two opposing coven’s magic—low tide magic and high tide magic. As Griffin puts it, low tide magic adds to what already exists with the caveat of leaving a buildup of of unused power while high tide magic has no limits but requires balance. I appreciate how Griffin doesn’t overwhelm the reader with her magic system in her explanation of it while still managing to make it complex. 

Tana and Wolfe’s forbidden love story swept me off my feet! Their secret meetings at midnight on the beach, fervent kisses, and loving embraces are absolutely magical. I could not get enough of their chemistry and their slow development from enemies trying to ignore their attraction to each other to lovers unable to resist giving in to their hearts. 

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I just finished this book and it was 5/5⭐️

I have my own story, one that’s been written since the day I was born. And something tells me that if I were to read his, it would become my favorite.

Promo art for Rachel Griffin’s upcoming novel BRING ME YOUR MIDNIGHT (coming 1 August 2023) 🖤

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Bring Me Your Midnight by Rachel Griffin Book Review

ARC kindly provided by the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

This book has my entire heart!

I loved this book. I have no idea why I didn't pick it up sooner. This was haunting, spooky and utterly atmospheric and had everything I loved in a book. Enemies to lovers? Forbidden romance? Magic? Tick. Tick and tick. 

The book follows Tana, a witch who works in a perfumery on a small magical island with her family. Ever since she was young, she had an arrangement to marry the son of the governor of the mainland to forge an alliance between them and the witches. The coven Tana belongs to performs low magic, every month going out to the other side of the island, depositing their magic into the sea to avoid a magical build up. One night, Tana accidentally misses the rush and in desperation meets a witch from a long forgotten coven to help use the magic she didn't deposit. Wolfe helps Tana tap into the connection between the witchcraft that flows through her and nature while their friendship grows into something more. Tana needs to choose between duty and her heart, the life she's always known and the future she never imagined. 

I think one of the best things about this book is the aesthetic and how atmospheric it is. From the first page this book had a witchy allure that sucked me in immediately. I enjoyed reading about the magic systems and could feel the connection Tana had to her island. 

Something else I really enjoyed were the characters. I loved Tana and how vulnerable she was. She was very empathetic with a strong sense of duty and the courage to follow her heart. I loved her family, her relationship to her coven and of course, her relationship to the love interest Wolfe who was tall, dark and handsome personified. He saw Tana for who she was and helped her to embrace herself and her powerful magic. 

The only negative I had was the plot. To me, it seemed like it was setting itself up for Tana to either introduce high magic to the witches in her coven and help them to embrace it or to rebel against the mainland. This book seemed to take a more character-focused approach instead, focusing more on Tana embracing herself than what it seemed to set up at the beginning of the novel. It wasn't a bad thing, I still enjoyed the story regardless. 

All in all, I really enjoyed this book. The characters, the world, magic systems and romance were a highlight for me. The only negative was the plot which I believed was leading up to something and then didn't. I wish this book was a series because I would love to see this cast of characters again and I feel like there was so much that I would love to explore more about. 

ACTUAL RATING: 4.6 STARS 

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A good book and coffee. My favourite Sunday morning ritual 📖☕️

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“If flowers and herbs, trees and fields, oceans and mountains aren’t magic, I don’t know what is.”

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REVIEW

BRING ME YOUR MIDNIGHT by Rachel Griffin at The Reading Cafe:

' a wonderful, enchanting and emotional fantasy romance'

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