Thank you to Netgalley for sending me an eARC copy of this book!

4/5 Stars

This was exactly what I was needing when I picked this up, something light, a quick page-turner, and something which would kept me interested. This is a perfect standalone fantasy, which I enjoyed very much. The seaside island town with a touch of magic, is perfect for those looking for a quick low fantasy read. I couldn't stop reading this, and found myself finishing this book within one sitting.

I highly recommend picking up this book, and am definitely looking to get a physical copy for myself.

I was pleasantly surprised with how much I enjoyed this book! I was sucked in and sped through the last 2/3 of it like it was air and I had been underwater for hours. The characters felt alive, and while the romance was instant and not usually my style, the plot’s consistency and intrigue kept me close.


Thank you to Sourcebooks and Netgalley for a digital copy of this delightful story. Opinions are my own!

After a slow start in the first half (where was this going? and how did we bounce from L to W that quickly?) the second half of this book took off. I meant to read about 100 pages in the morning and then never stopped. I like witch books. I love a magical island. I need more forbidden love in my life. This checked so many boxes for what I needed in a romance and in a story that I just gobbled it up. Was it perfect? no. Was it a great read? totally.

Thank you to sourcebooks, NetGalley, and Rachel Griffin for an ARC of this book. All opinions that follow are my own.

Wow! This book is beautiful and catches you right from the beginning. The descriptions of the world are building. Rachel Griffin also has such a way of making you feel every emotion - you feel the happiness, sadness, and confusion right alongside the characters as they navigate growing up.

Exploring the ideas of duty vs doing what’s right for you. Would you be willing to put everything you’ve known at risk? Would you potentially turn your back on everything you’ve ever known?

I loved the world that was created, it felt both fanciful and believable. The world felt like it could really exist alongside our own as Griffin merged the magical and the modern in a way that felt natural and not forced.

This book was such a beautiful exploration of growing up, relationships between: a daughter and her parents, an individual and her community, a woman and the man she loves, and a girl and her best friend. Never did this feel forced or unnatural.

Highly recommend this book!

thank you to netgalley for the arc! this was such a fun read, so i enjoyed reading it all!

rachel griffin writes about tana fairchild who is the daughter of the coven's leader on an island where they have a tense relationship with the mainland who seem to be afraid of the witches. tana's role as the heir is to marry the son of the mayor over at the mainland, landon. the story starts with tana missing a ritual that can be fatal for her. but she meets wolfe, a mysterious boy who helps her in more ways than one.

overall, i really enjoyed the plot and the witchcraft of it all. it wasn't a complicated magic system which i appreciate so much in a fantasy novel. this is a young adult novel, and while some of it was obvious, it was still enjoyable.

the novel is written in first person, so it's somewhat difficult to understand what the other characters were thinking since we only saw them through tana's eyes, but even then, i loved seeing her different relationships with her parents, her best friend, and wolfe. the one thing i would have liked to have more of is seeing landon and having more interactions with him. because honestly? zero part of me ever wanted to root for him.

the romance was really cute between tana and wolfe. i still feel like i would have liked to see wolfe's perspective because there were times tana would see that wolfe was getting emotional, but all we read was the dialogue between the two of them. and oftentimes, wolfe would say different things than what he was feeling, so i think at least a few chapters from his perspective would have been so fun to read! especially about life in the hidden coven.

this book was one of my favorites i've read this year because it was whimsical and fantastical, and there were so many parts of the story that made my heart ache. so if you're looking for a cute and quick read with splendid worldbuilding, i can't recommend this one enough.

“I would set the world on fire just to see your face. That’s what I’m afraid of.”
“Then we can burn together.”
- Rachel Griffin, Bring Me Your Midnight

ARC review 📝 Romantic. Atmospheric. This island, Witchery, will easily and unapologetically invade all your senses and get under your skin. There’s no escaping it. There’s no escaping magic. Even if magic itself seems to be at war with the very same nature that fuels it.

Tana and Wolfe are our hosts and their midnight rendezvous will make you swoon… or worse, hope. How can one not fall for them?! How can one resist rooting for more?!

I have a thing for witchy reads. I also have a thing for atmospheric islands that feel like characters on their own. And Rachel Griffin has this power, to pick you up and take you for a truly aesthetic ride through these incredibly beautiful worlds she creates.

What’s inside:
🖤witchy fantasy romance
🖤h*te to love
🖤secretive island
🖤midnight encounters
🖤I would set the world on fire for you

NA. 4 stars ⭐️ Thank you so much @ @sourcebooksfire and @timesnewrachel for this eARC. This beauty will be out in the wild on August 1st 🥹 and yes, you want it 👏🏼

This was my first ever Rachel Griffin book, and it will NOT be my last.

This book is so beautifully atmospheric, I felt like I could imagine the feeling of walking around on the island, surrounded by salty air and magical shops. The writing is absolutely stunning and romantic, and the characters are complex and relatable even if you don’t agree with them. The history of the witches and the mainland is a sinister one, one that feels very threatening and tenuous. When Tana starts noticing things that are off, I found myself completely intrigued and unable to put the book down for how thoroughly the plot grabbed me.

Now let’s talk about characters. Tana is kind of naive, and yet holds this quiet defiance in the face of what she has been told she is supposed to do, and who she is to be. Her internal struggles as she learns more about magic and the truth of her people was so believable and raw, and I genuinely wasn’t sure what she was going to do or how she was going to do it. Her chemistry with Wolfe is palpable, and there are so many beautiful and romantic moments between the two from the very beginning, despite their (many) differences.

I just loved this. I knew from the 30% mark that this was probably going to be a five star read, and I’m happy to say that my prediction was correct. Read this if you like: witches, romance, secrets, romance, betrayal, tension, finding yourself, doing what is right for you even when others don’t want you to, and ending up the person you were always meant to be.

Thank you endlessly to sourcebooks fire & Netgalley for the eArc of this title!

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

I enjoyed this author's previous work, The Nature of Witches, and this cover is soooo gorgeous, so I was interested to read this book. And it was... fine. I liked the magic system, and the secrets and discovery of said secrets. That being said, everything just happened so... quickly. I've never been a fan of insta-love, and this isn't quite that, but it's damn close. And I mean.... the love interest's name is... Wolfe Hawthorne? That's a... choice.

Overall, this was a nice quick read, and I did like how the environmental undertones (so often present in Griffin's other work). Were the witches' "new" way of doing magic and it's unintentional effects on their environment a thinly veiled metaphor for the human impact on our current climate crisis? Probably! And yes, I loved that!

LOVED IT! OBSESSED! I finished it in a day! It’s a fun little witchy tale about what I originally thought were mermaid witches but just ended up being witches on a mysterious island. I loved Tana and Wolfe and watching their relationship grow as Tana struggled with the lies told to her and her duty to her coven and her loyalties. However, I have to agree with Tana my loyalties follow suit. It loved her relationship with her dad, which to me seemed to be the. Only genuine loving relationship. Her BFF is sketchy as hell and not nearly fleshed out enough for me to care about her in any way. But overall I deeply cared about the growing currents and damage to the coastline, it was a fun on-the-nose story about young witches finding their way and life and each other. Overall 10/10 would recommend it. I am going out to buy a hard copy and see if I can find some plant to let me gain magical abilities.

How can I say how much I loved this book! Rachel’s incredibly cinematic writing pulled me right into the story. I really felt like I was watching a movie in my head .

This story has was so well written, romantic and heartbreaking. The pacing was excellent, i only felt the last 3 chapters were a little too fast.

Tana and Wolfe will stay with me for a long time.

Thanks so much to NetGalley for the ARC!

4.25/5 stars

This was so refreshing - a character-led, witchy romance was a perfect pallet cleanser between epic fantasies and heart-wrenching stories. Rachel Griffin does an amazing job creating a world that feels real but just slightly beyond and transporting the reader there. The characters are relatable and flawed and make you want to know more, keeping you invested in their story.

The plot and political dynamics are interesting, but the characters were really the shining point of this novel. I love love love Wolfe and grew to really respect Tana throughout the book. Ivy is a gem and even Tana's parents carved a special place in my heart. They're incredibly well developed characters and I really enjoyed getting to know them.

This book is all about the characters, relationships, atmosphere, and the consequences of our actions and the choices we make....and those made for us. It really makes you examine generational prejudice and tradition, and the harm that can come from following what's always been done blindly. It was a great read that I highly recommend!

‘I would set the world on fire just to see your face. That’s what I’m afraid of.’
‘Then we can burn together.’

Synopsis:

In Bring Me Your Midnight we are introduced to Tana Fairchild, the daughter of her coven’s leader. She is expected to be the perfect daughter, but she has a wildness she cannot suppress and a spiritual connection to the sea around the island that her coven live on. Witches were forced to leave the mainland when its people grew to fear them, and now practice ‘low magic’ - magic you can hardly notice - for tourists who catch the ferry over to the island for perfumes, soap and tea.

From from the moment she was born, Tana has known she will marry the mainland governor’s son, Landon, and cement an alliance between the witches and those that threaten their existence. She had reluctantly made peace with this, wanting to do the best by her community, but the waters around the island are growing more restless and violent, and when she misses a midnight ritual with her coven and makes a fatal mistake, the only person who can help her is Wolfe Hawthorne, a practitioner of the kind of dark magic Tana believed to be evil and wrong.

Wolfe not only teaches her to fully embrace her magic, but it (and he) makes her come alive. He sees her for who she truly is, not as someone who must simply perform a role, and from this fateful point Tana is torn - will she choose family, duty and loyalty to her coven, or love and loyalty to her own heart?

My thoughts:

As a lover of romantasy and anything witchy, I knew I’d love love this one and I wasn’t disappointed. I sped through Bring Me Your Midnight in the space of two days, and my only regret is that it’s now over! I loved Rachel Griffin’s writing, and was completely absorbed by Wolfe and Tana’s story. Rachel Griffin is definitely an autobuy author for me now and I can’t wait to read more of her books in future! If you love:

- forbidden love
- destiny
- witchcraft
- he would burn the world for her

…then I wholeheartedly recommend this book.

“I would set the world on fire just to see your face. That’s what I’m afraid of.”

I LOVED THIS BOOK SO MUCH.

Romantic. Witchy. Atmospheric.

I feel like I could leave it at that (because who doesn’t want to read a romantic, witchy, atmospheric book???) but there is so much to say.

Mortana ‘Tana’ Fairchild is a part of coven that has embraced the New Order — a doctrine allowing only ‘Low Magic’ to be practiced in order to appease the Mainlanders that fear Witches.

Tana has prepared for her entire life to marry the governor’s son as a part of a plan her ancestors set in place to finally unite the witches with the Mainland.

But when Tana misses the monthly ritual to expel her excess power (power that will be fatal, if left unused inside her body), she is forced to turn to Wolfe Hawthorne for help.

Wolfe is a member of the Old Order and a practitioner of forbidden Dark Magic.

As Tana gets to know Wolfe, and inevitably grows feelings for him, everything that she thought she knew about her world and magic is put into question, and she’s forced to choose between love and duty.

I stayed up until 2am reading this bad boy because Tana and Wolfe and THE TENSION had me in an absolute chokehold.

Highly recommend.

Wow. This book is a treasure. You can feel the deep emotions on every page. The story flowed perfectly and had me transfixed.

This is my first book from this author and now I want to immediately read her others.

This was not my fave tbh. It was very slow going in the beginning and didn't really get exciting until the last half maybe quarter of the book. I think it will hit it's mark with it's targeted teenish audience though.

DNF
I’m sorry to say that I got to a third of this book and didn’t finish. I think the storyline sounds exciting and I know there are plenty of good reviews posted- please read these for a full account. For me I just struggled to stay hooked due to the writing style.

When I see that Rachel Griffin has written a new book, I purchase it. She has this incredible ability to immerse readers in stories with rich settings and unique magic systems. BRING ME YOUR MIDNIGHT continues that trend. I loved everything about this story. The female main character, Tana, is living a prescribed life that seems opposite to her care free nature. Everything in her life is planned out, right to the man she is going to marry. Nothing in her life feels like it fits. When she meets Wolfe and learns some of the secrets of witchcraft, her life will never be the same.

Like with WILD IS THE WITCH and THE NATURE OF WITCHES, Rachel Griffin has artfully crafted fleshed out characters whose lives and motivations feel relatable despite their fantasy settings. Her stories feel intimate, powerful, and immersive. This book truly has it all.

I just really struggled to get into this book.

I’m sure there are a lot of people who like this book but I feel like I wasn’t in the right headspace to really dive into this book.

It was sadly a dnf.

But I’m still grateful that I got to give this arc a chance!

Rachel Griffin is officially synonymous with atmosphere, romance, angst, and beautiful descriptions of nature to me. Bring Me Your Midnight brought all that and more. I would describe it as a deeply emotional fantasy romance that centers love, duty, and loyalty to your community as well as love for yourself and the courage to do what’s right for you.

Griffin is just so GOOD at creating atmospheric settings. Add on the excellent character development and the beautiful writing and you have yourself this amazing read. Tana and Wolfe were such great leads and the chemistry between them was so fun to witness. I loved the very real representation of how hard it can be to choose yourself when you truly love your family and your community but you know that what they need and want isn’t what *you* need or want.

With the forbidden romance between Tana and Wolfe and the secrets of the Witchery that are uncovered because of it, you also get all the tension and passion you could want from a story like this. I was ALL the way in my feelings while reading this lol. My only complaint was just that I didn’t feel like the side characters were as well-developed as I would have liked but this was honestly minor.

If you enjoy witchy vibes, forbidden romances, angst, mysterious covens with secrets all set on an island with gorgeously depicted nature, pick this book up. This will make such a perfect fall read but honestly, I recommend it no matter the season!

Thank you to the author, Sourcebooks Fire, and NetGalley for a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

I devoured this book! Tana is a wild and loyal daughter and friend who would do anything for her coven, until Wolfe shatters all that she’s ever known. Through an unlikely companionship, Tana and Wolfe practice magic together and can’t seem to stay away from each other. They are both upfront about so many of their feelings and hopes that it’s hard not to immediately root for them to be together. Some of the things Wolfe says I was swooning! Griffin does an incredible job at describing not only how Tana is feeling through her POV but also the entire essence and layout of the island scenery, especially Tana and Ivy’s family shops and the ocean. I could easily immerse myself in the story within the first few sentences. It was a delight to read.