This is my favorite book of Pennington's yet. I've loved all of them, but Meet Me at Midnight stands out in a way I can't quite put words to. I think part of it is the growth in Pennington's writing, which is bound to come with each book she writes. And part of it is the characters, I simply loved Sidney and Asher. They are equal parts hilarious and awful, sweet and sour...much as we all are at that heading-to-college age. And maybe that's the crux of what I loved - watching their growth and maturity, and the way Pennington captures it, explains it, was masterful.

Sidney and Asher have been enemies every summer. Their parents vacation together on the lake in side-by-side cabins, which means that Sidney and Asher GET to spend every summer together. To make things interesting, they play pranks on one another, sugar in the salt shaker, that type of thing. The pranks get upped a little each year. But this year they get out of hand, and Asher asks Sidney to consider joining forces against a common enemy. Can they find a way to be friends? Or will this all end up in a bigger mess than before?

Believe me, if you love summer romances... If you love YA... If you love stories where the characters grow and see themselves in new ways... If you have a heart... you will LOVE this book.

“How much do you hate me right now?”

This is the third book from Jessica Pennington and the third book I’ve read by her. Yes, I’ve read them all and she will continue to be an auto-buy/auto-read author for me. She writes heartfelt young adult romances and I’ve adored every single one of them.

Meet Me at Midnight is another summer romance set in the small vacation town of Riverton. Asher and Sidney have been summer neighbors and prank rivals since they were thirteen. This year is their last summer before college and likely their last summer together. After some over-the-top, horrible pranks that get them and their parents kicked out of their rental, Asher and Sidney call a temporary truce. Can the two enemies become more?

“How much do you hate me right now?”

As I already said, I adored this book. Asher was such a romantic and it seems to be a trend with this author’s heroes. Sidney was a little harder to warm up to, though. She’s never had a boyfriend for more than ten days, so she doesn’t even let “real” people get close to her, much less the reader.

Even though Meet Me at Midnight is a dual POV story, I felt the first half was more open to revealing Sidney’s true feelings. While we are also getting Asher’s POV throughout the book, I felt we never get his true feelings until after halfway through the story. I was a little annoyed by this and felt like I was getting purposely duped by the author. Other than that, I loved the relationship and relationship drama between Asher and Sidney…even though some parts were easily predictable. Still, romantic Asher was totally worth the wait. There’s also a little bit of a love triangle thrown in to complicate things between Asher and Sidney, but it doesn’t get very far.

Now to the pranks. Yes, some were hilarious and creative, until they became irresponsible and reckless. It got to the point where I was constantly dreading the next act of vandalism.

The parents. Well, Asher and Sidney’s parents were probably about my age. *face palm* And I was a little jealous how they get to spend two months every summer vacationing on the lake.

“How much do you hate me right now?”

Loving and looking forward to whatever Ms. Pennington comes up with next for the teens of Riverton

I was so excited to read Meet Me At Midnight because of the childhood enemies. It's a great trope honestly, and I love reading it! Meet Me At Midnight is a perfect summer read full of hijinks and love disguised as dislike.

We follow Asher and Sidney whose mothers were college roommates, so their families have been vacationed together every summer. And every summer, they carry out increasingly bigger and also weirdly specific pranks on each other. I really loved this first half of the book where Asher and Sidney were pranking each other but obviously hiding feelings for each other.

It's the summer before college, which means it's time for big changes. Asher is also struggling to tell his dad that he doesn't want to go into finance, especially because he doesn't actually know what he wants to do. Sidney is dealing with the changes that come with graduating high school and entering college.

I can't really say more about the plot because of spoilers, but I really liked the writing. The pacing was great. This is a page-turner, for sure!

Yeah, so the second half of the book fell a little flatter to me because I was really here for the hate masking the thinly concealed attraction; once that ended, I wasn't as into it. However, this book was still super cute and a great summer read. I definitely recommend Meet Me at Midnight if you're a fan of Morgan Matson or Kasie West!

A cute and adorable contemporary YA romance with one of my favorite tropes in the genre: enemies-to-love.

Sidney and Asher could have been close friends growing up summering together with their parents on the same lake, but instead an all out prank-war keeps them at each others throats until one summer things go a little too far and finds them kicked out of their summer homes and instead reluctant housemates in a new one. Forced into the same space, they call a truce and form an alliance that changes everything.

I liked that the progression in their relationship felt natural and didn't feel rushed was rushed. Asher was absolutely charming, and Sidney's anxieties around their relationship felt true to who she was even when I wanted to tell her to snap out of it. Throughout the story I was rooting for them to be happy. I especially appreciate that the ending wasn't rushed and everything wrapped up in a neat bow with one apology and a smile (although I wouldn't have said no to a longer epilogue).

Side note, I'm an absolute sucker for books with female athletes and can never turn them down.

This book was super cute and fun! Sidney and Asher spend their summers together because their parents are friends. They used to get along well, until they started pranking each other. The pranks have escalated and now they must stay in the same house together. This book has a love/hate storyline, an enemy to lovers trope. This book was hilarious with all the pranks they play on each other. Prepare to be swooned by Asher!

I couldn't put this book down! It's the perfect YA romance!


Thanks to NetGalley and Tor Teen for an eARC of this book in exchange for an honest review.

I recieved this book from Net Galley for a honest review.

This was a cute enemy to dating book. The prank war between the characters was funny. I loved the the countdown after the summer happened. I would recommend this book for people who have read Kasie West.

I so badly wanted to love this! Sidney and Asher have spent every summer together since they were 12/13 years old, their parents are best friends. After that first summer though, they have been in a battle of wits. Each one trying to outdo the other with pranks. Sounds cute and fun, right? Well, the first half was but the 2nd half lost its luster for me. By that time, it became strictly a love story, which would have been fine but I wanted more pranks and intense moments between them. The second half dragged & I was kinda getting bored with Sidney’s immaturity. Asher? I loved him but he wasn’t enough to save the story.

*Thank you to the publisher and Netgalley for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Oh my. This one was really cute!
Sidney and Asher are both swimmers that will go to the same college in the fall. and they spend their summer holidays together because their parents are friends. They also "enemies" and since they were fourteen they are in prank war. When prank war escalate and they face consequences .Sidney and Asher team up together to prank the woman who kicked them out of their houses and begin to open up and fall for each other.
I loved watching these two connect and become friends, the banter between Sidney and Asher was top notch and you could feel the chemistry oozing from them every time they were around each other.

Meet Me At Midnight is simply an adorable YA that's highly entertaining, well written, and charming.

𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘬 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘕𝘦𝘵𝘎𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘺 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘷𝘪𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘮𝘦 𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘥𝘷𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘱𝘺 𝘪𝘯 𝘦𝘹𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘳𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘸!

Cute and very fun rom-com read. Gave me all the summer feels. Many thanks to the publisher via @netgalley for the eARC copy

3.5 stars

This book summed up in a word: adorable. I haven't willingly read a cute YA contemporary in some time, but this was enjoyable - predictable and a basic concept, but nonetheless enjoyable.
I loved the relationship between our two main characters and how sweet and innocent it was, the hint of coming-of-age elements, and the summery lake scene (one of my favourite tropes!).
If you enjoy stories with hate-to-love storylines, amongst a background of summer and lakes and all things nice, then this is for you. Overall, an adoring light read which I give a 3.5 stars to as it wasn't my usual read and a little cliche for me but still a decent novel.

This was a fun read and it was interesting to see how the characters grew. The slow release of information as to why the feud started between the two main characters was also well written. Due to more mature content, I wouldn't be able to have this at my middle school library; however, I would recommend it to high school students or mature 8th graders. It does follow two students who recently graduated from high school and through the start of their freshman year of college.

Sidney and Asher have been at war for five years. Every year their families vacation together at the Lake Houses in Michigan and every year Sidney and Asher invent new ways to prank the other in their never-ending war. But this year they go too far and are forced to face the real reasons behind their war and their real feelings for each other.

This was a quick, light read which I enjoyed. The characters were well-developed. However, I found Sidney's neuroses a bit annoying, her constant second-guessing and trust issues grated on my nerves a bit.

I could not put this book down! I absolutely loved it! If you love YA romance novels that are sweet, fun, and keep you wanting more, then this is the book for you.

“Meet Me at Midnight” is written in a way that makes you feel like you are at the lake with Asher and Sidney. Pennington does an amazing job at keeping the book realistic. There was nothing in this book that made me think it was out of reach. I also loved how the book was not rushed in any way. The romance developed throughout the book, and never seemed forced. I enjoyed going through the emotions of Asher and Sidney discovering what they truly felt for one another, and how they pursued those feelings together.

I will definitely be picking this book back up over the summer while I’m on my lake vacation and many more times in between!

Meet Me at Midnight by Jessica Pennington, published by Macmillan- Tor, is a ya college, enemies to lovers romance.
Sidney and Asher love to hate each other. Both are stars at their swim team at college and to top it off, they're forced to spend their summer vacations together, for years and years. They love to prank each other, and when one of the pranks has dire consequences, they have to think again.

Meet Me at Midnight is a well written, entertaining witty and fun read. I loved the writing and the story, 4,5 Stars.

Meet Me at Midnight by Jessica Pennington is a cute comtemporary teen romance novel. Sidney and Asher have to spend summer together since their parents are friends, so they have been playing pranks on each other for the last several years at their lake cabins. They have a common enemy when they are kicked out of their summer homes, leading them to call a truce and form an alliance. They bond over their love of swimming and pranks and grow closer, uncovering feelings that have been there the whole time. I found the book to be sweet and the characters are unique, but it is not as good and realistic as some other books.

It’s been awhile since I read this book. I actually finished this in December and just never got around to reviewing it. I remember I really enjoyed this book and all of the pranks the two pulled on each other.

I’m pretty sure this was another book that took place at a Michigan lake and I like that these books take me back to when I used to live in Michigan which is probably why I like them so much. I also like how young adult books are starting to focus on college and what happens next after high school.

This was a cute summer read I needed in the middle of reading Christmas books last month. This was a four star read. Thank you Netgalley and publishers for letting me read this. That had no impact on my thoughts, my thoughts are my own.

Confession: Lake Michigan in the summertime is my all-time favorite place in the world; so I was immediately hooked from page 1. I am a huge fan of a love/hate storyline and this had that and so much more. What I really love is that the story is told from both Sidney and Asher’s points of view. It spans the whole summer and then a few months of college. Personally, I would love to see this story play out and have a book following the pair through their college years. The epilogue was only a page and I wanted more!

Adorable story about a girl and her nemesis who find that live and hate are not so far apart after all.

The fun premise of this book - two teens engage in a prank war every summer against each other - was abandoned pretty early on for a bit of a romantic letdown for this reader.

**BOOK HUG & SIGH** So many warm fuzzies. Now I’m craving a re-read of When Summer Ends and Love, Songs and Other Lies.

MEET ME AT MIDNIGHT checks the boxes of some of my favorite things:
- Witty, sarcastic dialogue & characters
- Hate to love
- Perception vs reality
- Beach, lake location

I just love Asher and Sidney. And this quote (one of my favorites) pretty much sums up their relationship.

“Never underestimate how much I want to pry your brain open, Sidney Walters.”