I really enjoyed this YA fiction book and finished it one sitting. The characters were very well developed, and the plot was something that I could imagine happening in today’s world, especially with AI. It is public knowledge that the government has always investigated or researched the ideas of people being psychics. Winnie, Matty, Jaxon, Nebony and Forester are helping Liv move some planks from the attic and They find a bunch of boxes that say DO NOT OPEN. So, of course they open the boxes, what they find our letters about premonitions that were collected by the Premonitions Bureau from 1960’s to 1990’s. As they go through these letters they find three contributors, Mad Merlin, Nostradamus and the Oracle of Delphi whose premonitions were accurate. Nebony decides to post their group and talk about the letters on social media, that is when the trouble begins for the group. Before you know it, our group is embroiled in a dangerous journey to solve who are Mad Merlin, Nostradamus and the Oracle of Delphi. Will our young group of teens solve this mystery and survive to tell another story. Thank you to Netgalley and Camcat Books for the ARC in exchange for an honest review.

I really enjoyed this book. The characterization was well done with a situations young adults in their last years of high school face such as how it feels to be a bit odd and not fit in with very many other people, and having a crush on someone who doesn't seem to know you're alive. Of course, I wasn't talking about psychic abilities! While some people are more tuned into things like that, not everyone is.

I like how the author added descriptions of different psychic abilities and also came up with characters that had some of them. There were a number of suspenseful scenes, and honestly they could have gone either way. The addition of AI also made the story current.

Good job!

Having loved Gwendolyn Womack's The Fortune Teller a few years back, I gladly took on her YA debut, The Premonitions Club. It's the story of a small group of high school students who discover some old boxes containing lists of premonitions collected by The Premonitions Bureau from the 1960s to the 1990s. The files include research on whether and when each premonition proved correct--some years after they were made. A few contributor names keep coming up, including Mad Merlin, Nostradamus, and The Oracle of Delphi--who are the real people behind the names? Before they know what's happening, the teenagers find themselves involved in a nefarious plot that endangers not only themselves but members of their families--both living and presumed missing or dead. And some of them discover unfathomable skills they didn't know they had.

From that point on, the book becomes a series of whirlwind action scenes that dominate the plot. I found it entertaining, although I would have preferred to learn more about what happens to the young characters at the end of the book. It is a rather abrupt ending, followed by the (unnecessary) information the author provides about various paranormal skills, including reading auras, numerology, palmistry, tarot and divination,and remote viewing. Also, I feel the book title (including the word "club") is designed to attract readers based on the book's YA designation, whereas it could have been a stronger title to reflect the actual content of the book.

My thanks tp CamCat Books and NetGalley for the opportunity to read and provide an honest review of this book.

Had to DNF this one early on - it really reads like middle grade writing, and I would probably still have read/considered purchasing for our younger readers, but it's too long to be a good sell for them (would hope for something closer to 250 pages with this style of writing). Maybe better in middle grade than YA/teen.