I loved reading the book. It’s a perfect summer read. It was fun and very entertaining. I loved the main characters Asher and Sydney. I also loved the execution of the enemies-to-lovers trope. I liked how I was able to know the real reason behind the pranks played by Sydney and Asher as well. I preferred the first part of the book more since the second part focuses mostly on the attraction between the main characters. I also wish more pranks had been played by Sydney and Asher since that was kind of the central theme in the story. Overall, I think this book is best for anyone looking for a fun, summery read.

Since Jessica Pennington released her debut, Love Songs and Other Lies, I have been a fan of her books. Love Songs was exactly my kind of story with love hate and a road trip, okay, music tour, and amazing characters, and her sophomore book, When Summer Ends, was a fantastic mix chemistry and sports and summer. I enjoyed both of them so much I couldn’t wait to meet her new characters in Meet Me at Midnight and let me tell you Jessica did not disappoint. Meet Me at Midnight was by far Pennington’s best work and you can feel her love for the story and the characters when you read it.

Meet Me at Midnight is about Sidney and Asher, two star swimmers that have spent their summers being neighbors and pranking each other for years. When it is finally the summer of their senior year they go too far and fins themselves in uncharted territory. Instead of being neighbors they end up staying in the same house. After years of pranking each other they decide it’s time to work together and prank the person that got them into this mess. But as the summer goes one Sidney and Asher realize things between them aren’t so black and white and that there may be something more behind their 6 years messing with each other.

What did I love most about Meet Me at Midnight? HOLY CHEMISTRY BATMAN! Sidney and Asher had some of the best chemistry I have seen written by Jessica. From page one you could see Asher was doing everything he could to get under Sidney’s skin. It was essentially like he was pulling her pigtails as a child to get her attention, and she was so clueless. They had that hate to love dynamic thing going on and it was oh so perfect. It was so easy to believe how they felt for each other and to understand how things went downhill for them. They were the perfect pair when they worked together yet also still had fun with each other.

Meet Me at Midnight is the perfect book to get you in the mood for summer or to make you yearn for those lazy days when you had not a care in the world. In you love hate to love, summer swoon romances this book is for you. I highly recommend reading all of Jessica’s books, but if you only pick up one to start Meet Me at Midnight is a great choice!

This book was adorable! I absolutely loved everything about it. The characters were sweet and they had a way of sucking me right into their world, and swallowing me whole. At times, I didn't know if I was really in their world or if I was in mine. This book was THAT good.

No this was a perfect YA summer romance book but with depth and heart. I adored this book and these characters.

how much do you hate me right now?

Meet Me at Midnight is the perfect enemies to lovers summer romance balanced with just the right amount of humour, banter and pranks.

We follow our main characters Asher and Sidney, star swimmers. Each year they and their families rent summer houses by the lake. But instead of spending their holidays relaxing- they take place in an intense prank war. From Kool-aid in the shower to mayonnaise covered floors, they are constantly on high alert, waiting for the other to making their move and planning their own retaliation. But it is now their last summer before going off to college, and they may have to team up against a common enemy.

Sparks will fly, but who knows if they will be the romantic kind or the explosive one?

This book was just what I needed. It was well written and easy to keep flipping the pages. I felt myself instantly connected to the characters, and really invested in their lives. Jessica Pennington did an excellent job at developing their relationship. By using dual POVs and a few flashbacks to their first summer, we get a clear understanding of not just one of the characters, but both. Their relationship progressed at just the right speed and there wasn't unnecessary drama added in to add roadblocks. Everything felt realistic and true to character.

"I was so scared of losing you, that I lost you anyway."

Admittedly, not much happens apart from a few pranks and parties but that didn't bother me personally. I was in it for the characters, which is just what I want from contemporary romances. The banter was A+ and the characters acted and spoke in a way that was true to their age (what a concept).

I loved the little details that made this story refreshing and new. The war board games they played at parties was really fun to read about, and I really related to Sidney in her strategic mind and competitive nature (I wonder why no one wants to play monopoly with me?) The entire time I read this I craved the chocolate chip pancakes Sidney would make Asher and wanted to go swim in a lake.

Something I really appreciated in this book was that Sidney was an athlete as well as Asher. A common trope of YA contemporary is that the boy is the athletic one, but in Meet Me at Midnight, they both were. As well as that, we see the actual training and work that goes into being a swimmer. From early morning swims to running, training and going to the gym.

Overall, if you are looking for a new hate to love summer romance- look no further!

Thanks to Tor Teen for the ARC

Release Date: 7 April 2020

Was a bit confused at first if I was baited for the promise of enemies to lovers within the story but the establishment of the Sidney Walters and Asher Marin rivalry sufficed my need of another e2l trope.

This was a chill summer read that can be your next beach read. The modern coming-of-age vibe was present and the familiar snarky banter between our MCs are enjoyable.

But the story was lacking on impact. I was looking for something that will make the story memorable but there's nothing remarkable as I turn the last page.

Overall, this is an enjoyable read if you are into teen chick lit.

RATING: 2.5 stars

This is a really cute and fun book. I have been reading a lot of dark thrillers and this was just the thing to sort of bring me out of a reading funk. I admit I haven't read YA in a long time, but this book reminded me why I loved this genre so much. I think this is the perfect summer read when you don't want something too heavy.

One of the things I loved most was the banter between Sidney and Asher. It was obvious how much they liked each other but as a reader, it was fun to see their relationship progress to something more. I'm going to keep this review short and sweet because I really liked this story and I think it doesn't warrant a lengthy review. I enjoyed the characters and it was sweet and adorable. The writing was great and I enjoyed the pace. It definitely got me excited to read more YA and more of the author's previous works!

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for allowing me to read this book. I really enjoyed it!

Such a cute read!!!! Thank you so much for giving me the opportunity to read and review. I cant wait to share this title with friends and families when it comes out

“I can almost imagine she’s that girl I met my first summer here, and not the competitive psycho she actually is”

Sidney e Asher passam todos os verões em Five Pines Resort, competindo quem preparar as melhores pegadinhas contra o outro. Até que a guerra de pegadinhas causa a expulsão deles do resort. Em uma trégua entre eles, na qual eles juntam suas forças contra Nadine, a proprietária do Five Pines, Sidney começa a se questionar porque, em primeiro lugar, essa rivalidade entre eles começou. Um romance agradável, fofo e engraçado.

“Meet me in Midnight” é um livro da autora Jessica Pennington que eu tive o prazer de ler antecipadamente através do @netgalley.

O livro será lançado no exterior dia 07 de abril de 2020 e espero que alguma editora adquire os direitos autorais dele para que ele seja publicado aqui no Brasil.

A resenha completa tá no blog: www.wanderlustskoob.wordpress.com

I received a free digital copy of this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

This is one of those books you just need to get your fingers on. I absolutely absorbed this book in just a few hours and then immediately wanted more. Can we make this into a movie? I loved it so much. It's not a perfect book, but sometimes its the imperfections that make books memorable and make them feel more realistic.

Overall it was a fun YA Romance. I want more, I need more. Sequel please?

Thank you kindly to the author, the publisher, and NetGalley for this review copy.

my heart is squealing with giddiness and adorable feelings and I am now vicariously living through this romance okay bye.

Omg did I just devour this book in literally 24 hours? Now I'm sitting not knowing what to do with myself since I'm no longer caught up in the Sidney/Asher fiasco ahhh. I literally just want to reread all of my favourite scenes. Which is a very good sign.

Literally had THE BEST TIME with this little book. SO. MUCH. FUN.

Definitely not perfect, the plot isn't the best. And the characters are idiots most of the time, but those are my kinds of characters. I also apparently have a soft spot for swimmer romances I think.

Just ugh can I not get a longer epilogue? Please and thank you!!

This was such a fun YA romance! I had a difficult time putting it down and ended up finishing it in one day! Both of the main characters were likeable, but Asher was the real star of the book for me. I also loved that most of the book takes place while the characters were on vacation. I think that made the romance more fun and exciting.

Thankyou so much to the amazing peeps over at Tor Teen and Netgalley for introducing me Jessica Pennington’s work. Not usually one to dive in to contemporary novels with vigour, the offer was a great push to get me out of my comfort zone.

So I will start by telling you that the protagonists in this one act like small children despite being pretty much grown arse adults – Asher and Sidney are about to head off to college so that means they are at least 17, definitely old enough to know better than to coat the ground in mayo or leave a dead fish under a bed in sweltering heat. Now when these two cause themselves and their respective families to be evicted from the holiday homes they have spend every year in since they were tweens, you would think that they would get the point and lay off the pranks. Instead they decide to pool their smarts and prank they landlord, such a smart idea… Thankfully after around the first third it actually turned into a story that I kind of wanted to read.

If you’re still with me, great. If not, that’s understandable too because honestly if I had have stopped reading this would have just been a 1000 word rant about immature and unrelatable teens. As I said before, once the initial childish stuff is over, it turns into a kind of sweet love story. The two have known each other for years and instead of being childhood sweethearts, they just kind of hated each other and tormented their nemeses for 8 weeks every year. Now here is where I tell you, despite the ending and who Sid ends up with - both guys are sweet and caring and really just want to make her happy – I was kind of rooting for the other guy. But alas this is a YA romantic type novel and young love conquers all etc despite it being a kind of unhealthy relationship.

So, there’s not really a lot more to say because it’s a typical boy meets girl, boy and girl hate each other, another guy meets girl, first boy gets jealous, kissy faces, resolution and the love triangle is broken. I do however want to make comment about the fact that THERE’S NOT A HAPPY ENDING! Or at least not in the traditional sense. There are post summer love chapters and it all feels very Me After You as all the people involved try to put the pieces back together of what was previously their regular lives.

And here's that wrap up everyone scrolls for. Yes, it’s a teen romance and its kind of cute but first you have to get past the ridiculously immature bits. Some of the pranks were actually kind of funny (looking at you Cherry Kool Aid) but some just felt a little overdone. There isn’t a happy ending and I thought it was the best thing to ever come from a YA novel about relationships and loving the people you never thought you would. The slow burn/gradual realisation of where the MC’s stand with those around them was well done. Overall, while it wasn’t the greatest novel I have ever read, if you are keen for a love story that a little let of field and takes some unlikely turns, I would definitely recommend you pick this one up.

Sidney and Asher have grown up vacationing together with their families and, theoretically, should get along great. But instead, the two spend each summer one-upping the other in their all-out prank war. After one prank goes a bit too far, the pair find themselves calling a cease-fire to team up against a common enemy, and truly getting to know each other in the process.

This was SO cute and I'm sure will be a major beach-read this summer. It had all the elements of a classic summer vacation romance. This was simultaneously childhood friends falling in love AND enemies falling in love and THAT, my friends, is maybe my ultimate combo.

Sidney and Asher balanced each other out really well - Sidney anxious and cynical (hello, relatable) with Asher relaxed and sentimental. Their shared history added so much and I enjoyed the few brief flashbacks to give us a better picture of their relationship. I also appreciated the dual POVs - I always feel like these summer romance books are from the female perspective so it's nice to get both sides of the story.

I assumed this would wrap up with a nice bow at the end of the summer and was pleasantly surprised that the story bled into their first few months of college. I don't mind keeping the story strictly based in the summer - it is a summer romance, after all - but I liked the added touch of reality that came with the post-vacation world.

Thank you to NetGalley and Tor Teen for the chance to read this book in exchange for an honest review!

Meet Me at Midnight truly brought me back to what it felt like to be 18 and to feel young love during the summertime. Sidney and Asher have been vacationing together since their early teens. Although both felt the pangs of a first crush early on, they turned their attraction into antagonizing each other during the two months of summer. This summer is different because their antics are taken a little too far and the consequences end up bringing them even closer together. We learn that they aren’t friends outside of vacation, but have both been accepted to swim for their mom’s’ alma mater and will be teammates in the Fall semester – and the summer leading up to college has more in store than they originally thought with playful flirting, pranks, and eventually a truce.

I really enjoyed how I felt while reading this story. It truly reminded me of carefree summer days, cute boys on a lake, and learning about yourself as you grow up.

4 stars for this sweet YA novel!

I just finished “Meet Me at Midnight” by Jessica Pennington and my thoughts are all over the place. I really loved this and then sometimes I wanted to throw my kindle at the wall. I have a love/hate relationship with this book and I’ll explain why.

Blurb: Asher and Sidney have vacationed and pranked each other for years, but it isn’t until they decide to call a truce and turn their pranks onto a mutual enemy that the two start to show their true feelings.

“Meet Me at Midnight” is an enemies to lovers slowest, slow burn YA romance with a touch of angst and whole lot of self-sabotage. There were a lot of positives and negatives about this book and I’ll just break it down for you.

POSITIVES:
•Asher makes this book. He’s sweet, thoughtful, kind, endearing. I almost gave the book four stars just because of Asher.
•The prank war premise was interesting.
•Sidney and Asher’s chemistry is undeniable. I loved reading about their innocent young love.

NEGATIVES:
•This book felt really long, only because I think it took a good portion of the book to get to the actual romance.
•Sidney drove me crazy. She constantly doubted everything and her teenage insecurity, was understandable, but annoying at times. I kept thinking, get it together girl. This guy really likes you.
•The ending was good, but not great. I needed more comfort after so much angst.

So with all that being said, this was an interesting read for me. One character alone made me want to give this a four star, but I think in the end I needed just a little less self-doubt from Sidney and a lot more romance from an earlier point.

I LOVED this enemies-to-lovers trope! And set during summer on a lake in Michigan?! Yes please! Sydney and Asher are the YA version of Lucy and Josh from “The Hating Game”. Their hate-to-love relationship was everything I could have asked for. I loved every second of their pranks and banter! And Asher… where was someone like him during my summer vacations?! This book left me aching for summer and I will definitely be re-reading this by the lake. If you love YA, then you don’t want to miss this one!⁣

I LOVED this book. It was honestly one of the funniest lighthearted books that I have read in a long time. Because of that, I sped through it wanting to know what was going to happen between Sidney and Asher. The two of them were quite the pair together. They always seemed to be getting into trouble, no matter what situation they were in together.

As Sidney and Asher's relationship progressed you couldn't help but root for them all the while. Let me just say that the pranks that they complete are quite something and I would not want to be on the receiving end of them. But I think that's what made reading about them all the more fun. As the reader, you weren't being pranked, but you could still be a part of the fun.

I think that my favorite part of this book is the fact that it gives strong summer vibes. It reminds you of summer vacations and warm weather. It reminds you of all the fun times that you had in the summer and what could happen in the future. I highly recommend this book for anyone wanting a light and summery read filled with a cute couple.

This was so much enemies to lovers that it was almost impossible to imagine because these two characters had harmed each other so much . . . I think the sequencing was a bit off in how the story was told. Certain parts of the past were told interspersed with the present but it didn't always work for me. I liked the characters but I would have preferred more about their past and their motivations. This is a sweet read and definitely a good summer read, however!

Meet Me at Midnight comes out next month on April 7, 2020, and you can purchase HERE. If you want a quick summer YA read, you should check this one out!

Here's the problem with knowing someone since you were ten and vacationing with them since you were thirteen: they know way too much. They've seen things. The neurotic things you only did once. The embarrassing things you wish you could forget. Usually it's people we love who know these seemingly harmless things. But when it's someone you hate . . . those tiny bits of your past become the ultimate ammunition. And with the right arsenal, it's war. The war I call summer last exactly fifty-six days. It doesn't end, and it has only two sides: min and his.

4 STARS

This was such a fun YA Contemporary Romance! This is the story of Sidney and Asher--two teens who are forced to spend every summer together with their parents on a lake. Sid and Asher spend their summer days finding new ways to prank and ultimately out-do the other. This summer, however, their plans are thrown in jeopardy when one of their pranks causes their families to be kicked out of their beloved lake house rentals. Once they get into their new rental, Asher proposes a truce, and to join forces to prank the woman who kicked them out. They think that the truce will make the summer easier, but have to face the music--six years of pranks, and the reason behind why it all started, are really hard to ignore.

I really thought this was such a well done book. There were parts that had me laughing out loud, and other parts that were more serious. I really loved the "enemies" to lovers vibe of this book, and the banter between Sidney and Asher was very well written. Sometimes YA can seem TOO YA, in that the dialogue is cheesy, or everything is insta-love, but <b><i>'Meet Me at Midnight'</i></b> was neither of those things. I enjoyed the level of maturity that eventually showed through in these characters, and how Pennington truly made you love and relate to them. They were so well written and came off the page like they were real. I also really enjoyed the flashbacks that were trickled throughout the story, and how they lead up to why they "hate" each other in the first place.

Overall I think if you like Contemporary Romance, you would enjoy this story. I was very impressed, and will definitely be checking out Pennington's other works.

Much thanks to NetGalley, the author, and the publisher for the advanced e-copy of the book in exchange only for my honest thoughts and review.