Rachel Griffins writing just gets better and better and better!!

I absolutely adored The Nature of Witches - so I had really positive expectations going into this book and they were definitely met! I ate up the atmosphere in this book. ALSO - it is written in first person POV which is my favorite. The imagery in the books is amazing, the pace is perfect, honestly I can go on and on about how this book deserves six stars. You don't immediately get witchy vibes just from the cover but don't you worry, Tana's coven and her story within are worth taking the time to read.

This review is a difficult one for me to write because all of the things I want to share are spoilers! So i'll save you the heartache and just urge everyone to give this a read & then grab The Nature of Witches right after. I cannot wait to see what other masterpieces comes from Rachel Griffin in the future <3

Thank you to Sourcebooks Fire and NetGalley for this ARC of Bring Me Your Midnight by Rachel Griffin in exchange for an honest review. Griffin's writing is just beautiful. I love the way she writes witches, and I love all of the tropes that were employed in this book, such as enemies to lovers, covens, dark magic, etc. It's very whimsical, even if I felt like the plot lacked a bit substantially. It's a great book for the vibes, but if you're looking for intrigue, it does just enough to keep you reading but not much more. Nevertheless, I really did enjoy this book and I look forward to continuing to read Griffin's writing!

Rachel Griffin's Bring Me Your Midnight is a captivating and enchanting romantic fantasy that explores themes of forbidden love, the weight of choices, and the delicate balance between duty and desire. Set in a world where witches coexist with non-magical humans, this novel takes readers on a journey of self-discovery, loyalty, and sacrifice.

The story revolves around Tana Fairchild, a young witch whose fate has been predetermined since birth. Destined to marry Landon, the governor's son, Tana's union with him is meant to solidify an alliance between her coven and the mainlanders who fear the power of witches. Tana's coven has appeased the mainlanders by practicing only low tide magic, releasing their excess power into the ocean during the full moon. However, when Tana misses the crucial midnight ritual, she realizes the fatal consequences of her mistake.

Enter Wolfe, a mysterious young man from a coven that practices dark magic, considered forbidden by Tana's coven. Wolfe becomes Tana's unexpected ally, refusing to let her power be wasted in the sea. Instead, he teaches her his forbidden magic, awakening a sense of power and aliveness within her. As the sea grows more violent and her coven loses control of the currents, Tana finds herself torn between love and duty, loyalty to her people and loyalty to her heart. Marrying Landon promises peace for her coven, but losing Wolfe and his wild magic could cost her everything else.

The strength of Bring Me Your Midnight lies in Griffin's ability to create a vivid and immersive world. The island home of the witches and the tensions between the magical and non-magical communities are beautifully portrayed. The delicate balance between these two worlds is palpable, adding depth and complexity to the story. Griffin's prose is evocative, painting a lush backdrop for the character's emotions and struggles.

Tana Fairchild is a relatable and well-developed protagonist. Her inner conflict between her love for her people and her growing feelings for Wolfe is portrayed with authenticity and sensitivity. Readers will find themselves empathizing with her difficult choices and the weight of responsibility she carries. The romantic tension between Tana and Wolfe is palpable, adding an extra layer of intrigue and excitement to the narrative.

The exploration of the age-old theme of love versus duty is expertly executed in this novel. Griffin delves deep into the complexity of loyalty and sacrifice, questioning the boundaries between selflessness and self-preservation. The choices faced by Tana and Wolfe resonate with the reader, as they grapple with their desires while considering the potential consequences for their communities.

Bring Me Your Midnight is a compelling and enjoyable read, particularly for fans of Rachel Griffin's previous works. It combines elements of romance, magic, and self-discovery into a seamless narrative that will keep readers engaged from start to finish. With its well-crafted world-building, relatable characters, and thought-provoking themes, this novel is a must-read for anyone seeking an immersive and enchanting story.

Tana lives on an island where magic has been relegated and minimized in order to calm the normies across the water and blunt their pitchforks. Magic practitioners must vent their excess magic into the ocean lest it build up from their measly magic practicing and immolate them or some such. Tana is set to marry the governor's son and apparently secure peace between the island of magic dwellers and the people on the mainland. Her life is entirely planned out for her to benefit her people no matter what she actually wants, and she is cool with it. She feels like she's doing the right thing. However, one day Tana misses the magical water venting and meets a guy who knows all kinds of secrets and upsets her apple cart.

I quite liked this one, but the romance felt a bit rushed, and it didn't really resonate with me as much as it could have. I didn't like the idea of Tana marrying the governor's son being some kind of major deal that will totally secure everlasting peace because it just seemed so small time to me and not terribly feasible. The governor's son? It's an elected official and not a permanent position. Once he's no longer governor, his son is just going to be some fucking guy who can't do shit fuck all to protect your people.

Anyways, I did find the story engaging if a bit hollow. It was only good when it could have been great with a bit of tweaking, but if you like YA fantasy, I would recommend it.

Side note, that chick on the cover reminds me of Lindsay Lohan.

Rachel Griffin drops her readers into her character's world and immerses them into the story so successfully that it is often hard to believe that what she describes isn't real. Her flowing and sometimes verbose descriptions of settings and characters would, for most other authors, be called overindulgent, but for some reason they are exactly what this book needs. Every word seems carefully chosen to immerse the reader in Tana's life and to give them a better understanding of who she is - to not just tell the story, but help the reader live it.

You can't help but root for Tana as she navigates that difficult part of life where you have to decide between family , the life you know & have been raised to want and the life that you are just starting to see could be an option. Do you follow your head or your heart? Follow your gut or walk the path carefully laid out for you? Yes, it's a fantasy of witchcraft and covens but it's also an incredibly relatable story that you just don't want to put down.

Deeply romantic, entrancing, atmospheric and with a love interest you can't help but fall for as well, Griffin's "Bring Me Your Midnight" had this reader asking for more after turning the last page.

Thank you to Netgalley and Sourcebooks Fire for providing this arc in exchange for my honest review. I was SO excited to be approved for this release!

Every book that Rachel Griffin writes is so incredibly immersive and atmospheric. This was no different- I swear I could taste and smell the salty ocean, feel the sand on my skin, smell the perfumes she was magicking. I loved this story so much, it was so beautiful and romantic.

The setting is always a character in itself when Rachel writes. I want to live on the Witchery! I could perfectly envision the island, the little town area, the cobbled streets and little magic shops.

Like always, the love story is swoon-worthy romance! Rachel writes the absolute best YA romance, it never makes me feel old or like I’m not the target audience. It makes me feel nostalgic and romantic! Wolfe and Tana have my heart forever and ever and ever. 🩷🩷

If you’re looking for cozy, magical, romantic witchy books, I cannot recommend this book (and all of Rachel’s others) enough.

Well, I'm happily surprised by this book. It's a really sweet Young Adult story about magic, about prejudice and about the right to live the life we want.
Tana is the daughter of the most important witch of the Isle of Witchery. She knows since her childhood that she has to wed the son of the Mainland Governor, Landon. This will allow the witches to live a life more serene, without fearing the mainlanders repercutions. Because magic scares them, the witches has been force to tame it. And practice only small acts of magic.
But one night, Tana meets Wolfe. She has never seen him before, and he opens her to what she calls dark magic. And then, a new world opens to her. But what will she do ? Follow her duty and marry Landon to save all the witches, or listen to her guts and dive into the dark magic ?

Great rhythm in the story, sweet romance, strong and supportive friendship, all is there to make a great story. Thank you for sending me this ARC that I enjoyed really much !

Bring Me Your Midnight was absolutely fantastical! Griffin wrote a story that was so well written I found myself flying through the pages, unable to put the book down, pondering what would happen next. My favorite piece of this entire story was how believable the characters were.

The writing is clear and clean, and very immersive. The book hums along at a good clip, but the pacing makes sure we're given time to breathe between plot-intensifying moments. The story was absolutely engaging and the work that went into the settings was noticeable and superb. I felt absolutely transported and I'm so incredibly glad I was able to read an arc of this story.

This was a fun, if underwhelming book. Everything about the book felt surface level. The world building was interesting, but not very deep and honestly left me with a lot of questions. The romance was quick but brooding, with a little bit of angst thrown in (which I do love). But the main character feels like she didn't exist until the first page of this book, as though her life before the first page never happened.

Despite that, the book was enjoyable. There wasn't enough tension to really keep me glued to my seat but I hung around and still enjoyed myself.

Thank you to Sourcebooks and NetGalley for providing me with an ARC of this book.

Tana Fairchild lives on an island called The Witchery with all the witches of their coven. They practice low magic, a kind of magic that is lesser, to appease the humans on the mainland so that they don’t fear the witches. She’s set to marry the governor’s son Landon, which will strengthen the fragile human-witch harmony.

Tana has always been proud to do her duty for her family and coven until she meets Wolf. Wolf practices high magic and their coven was thought to be extinct. As Tana learns high magic with Wolf, she discovers hidden truths about the witches history, about herself, and what lessening their magic does to their island.

This is the first book of Rachel Griffin’s that I’ve read, and I will be looking for more of her books.

This may be for you if you love :
- Enemies to lovers
- Witches and magic
- Hidden history
- Secret covens
- Friendship and family love

Bring Me Your Midnight is atmospheric and lyrical. Our MC, Tana, is the lovely, ocean-obsessed daughter of her coven’s leader. She lives on a mystical island where the witches practice gentle, non-threatening magic, often to encourage tourism from the mainland. Tana knows everyone expects her to secure a positive relationship with the non-witches of the mainland by marrying the governor’s son, and she’s totally, completely, definitely fine with that…until she meets Wolfe, a witch from a mysterious coven that everyone says doesn’t exist.

Bring Me Your Midngight have me a bit of a witchy Twilight vibe with a hint of the grumpy/sunshine trope. I loved it, and think it would be an excellent addition to YA collections.

4.5 stars rounded up to five

The story is at it's heart one about duty - to family, to community, to the environment and to oneself. And the messy intersection where all of those things meet and demand different things is where we find Tana. The desire to keep her people safe, to make her parents proud, to preserve her Island and to follow her heart to Wolfe and his magic sweeping her up in a current she couldn’t predict.

The book made me cry. It made me swoon. It made me scream into the void and lay on the floor. It did take a little while to settle into - the beginning felt a little tell don’t show - but once I did it swept me up and didn’t let me go. And the witchy misty northern sea island vibes were immaculate.

I’m still thinking about the way the coven on Witchery treated their magic as something to be made small and palatable and unobtrusive and tourist friendly at risk to themselves and the cost of damaging the ecology of their island, and the way Tana was expected to make herself neat and pretty and perfect for her marriage to Landon, and the parallels between them.

Have you ever strolled beneath the embrace of buildings brimming with a century's worth of stories? That is the precise type of charm and magic that Rachel Griffin has created with the Witchery in Bring Me Your Midnight.

If I had to describe this book in three words, they'd be: lush, romantic, nostalgic.

In terms of action, it isn't the most adventurous fantasy book I've ever read, but I quite enjoyed the simplicity of the plot. It's like the cozy fantasy version of a beach read.

Highly recommend if you're a fan of historic towns, oceanic settings, and whimsical magic.

Thank you to Sourcebooks Fire for providing me with an eARC in exchange for an honest review.

It was cute, I’ll give it that! Made me cry, made me swoon. The setting requires some suspended disbelief, but I think for a story that’s meant to be about love and self discovery and making your own choices, it does what it needs to do. I like the cute witchy town motif the fantasy genre is pushing at the moment, so it works for me, but anyone who maybe wants something gritty or action-packed, this cute Hallmark movie of a book might not be for you. But that’s what it is. A Hallmark book that you should read with a nice cup of tea in a window seat with a view of a beach or a meadow or something. If that’s the vibe you want, this is the book you want.

Thank you to NetGalley for the opportunity to read this eARC. All opinions are entirely my own.

Lovely and magical story. Wish I could visit the island. Tana meets Wolfe who challenges her views of her coven and what her heart wants. Tana seems younger than her 19/20 years imo. I would have liked more tension and romance. Story seemed to wrap up enough in the end.
Thank you to NetGalley for the opportunity to read this arc.

She has always known that her future will bring peace and safety to her people…..but is the cost to her too high?

Tana Fairchild is a nineteen year old witch, the daughter of her coven’s leader, and lives on the island that her coven calls home. She is to marry Landon, the handsome son of the governor on the mainland from which her people were banished generations ago. A détente of sorts has been reached over the years between the mainland people, who fear the magical power of the witches, and the witches themselves. In addition to remaining on the island, the witches also agreed to stop practicing powerful “black magic”, and instead limit themselves to “low tide magic”, infusing teas, perfumes, and such things with light amounts of magic….the kind that the mainland people find enjoyable and non-threatening. Not all witches had agreed to limit themselves, and those opposed formed their own coven, but they have died off. Tana’s mother and the rest of the coven’s governing council have sought codified acceptance and protection from the mainland, as there are still those who fear and want to eliminate even those witches who have voluntarily limited their abilities. A deal has been struck….Tana and Landon will marry, and the governor will turn into written law the mainland’s obligation to protect the island and its residents. Tana loves her people, and is proud to be the one who will provide them with the security they so desperately want. Landon seems kind and, though she doesn’t love him, she expects that love will develop in time. She worries that she doesn't feel comfortable leading a public life; she isn’t adept in that milieu the way her mother is, but she will work hard at it. Then one night, she makes a terrible mistake. Each month, the members of the coven divest themselves of the excess magic that has built up in their bodies because they use comparatively little given the limitations imposed, releasing that excess into the waters around the island. This monthly ritual is called rushing, and Tana arrived at the beach with the rest of her coven but is distracted away from the group. She bumps into a strange, angry young man named Wolfe….they snipe back and forth with one another, and he tells her that he too is a witch, but from a different coven on the island….one that does not limit their magic. What Tana calls black magic is actually, Wolfe tells her, high magic. It is not dangerous, or evil. It is a confusing moment for Tana, and after they separate she realizes that she has missed the rushing ceremony. She has been taught that if excess magic is not released, it becomes a toxic build up that will kill her. Fearing that she will die and her people will lose the possibility of protection that her marriage to Landon would have brought, she seeks out Wolfe to see if he and his magic can save her. The more she learns of Wolfe, and the magic his coven practices, the more confused and torn she becomes about what she has always learned and what she is now discovering with him. That they share a powerful attraction further complicates matters, and difficult choices must be made.
This young adult novel is a story with a modern day Romeo and Juliet, two young people who fall in love even though their two covens possess two very different belief systems that do not coexist peacefully. Both believe in and care deeply for their communities, and are fiercely loyal to them. Which is more important, love or duty? How can they follow their hearts when to do so would bring almost certain ruin to those communities? Can they put the needs of their communities over their own? The questions are as old as time itself, and the answers are not easy….and with the stakes so high, a wrong decision could have devastating consequences for many. Ms Griffin weaves an absorbing tale, rich with description and a likable group of characters. I rooted for Tana, sympathized with her torn loyalties, and wasn’t sure how she would decide her future. It was a very enjoyable read, and I would recommend it for fans of Ms Griffin’s earlier books as well as those who enjoy a bit of magic with their romance. My thanks to NetGalley and Sourcebook Fire for the opportunity to read an
advanced reader’s copy.

Firstly, I'd like to say thanks to NetGalley for the ARC 🥰

Bring Me Your Midnight is a witchy YA fantasy novel with a heavy romance and self discovery storyline.

Now I will say, I found this book hard to get into, with getting past the first 20% taking me a good few weeks... I'm not exactly sure why but I did find the writing intially very blunt and the story quite slow to begin.

After that slow start, the story did pick up when Tana met Wolfe for the first time. The romance between the two characters was incredibly sweet, with him helping her on the path of self discovery and her powers.

It's a very small world in this book but it does make the story easy to understand with minimal complexities. With a common theme in fantasy, this book doesn't include any violence or fantasy battles (which I always love) so if you want a softer witchy romance, this may be for you. 📚

Overall, I did enjoy the book, but I found the writing a little hard to connect with and I'd have enjoyed a bit more depth to the characters ✨️

5 STARS!

I devoured this book over the weekend, do I have any regrets? NOT A SINGLE ONE!

This book was full of magic, love, family and loyalty. II wanted to just keep reading when the story came to an end. Tana (short for Mortana Fairchild) is our FMC who lives on an island of witches who have made a peaceful, beautiful life for themselves by promising the mainlanders (humans) that they will practice low magic and denounce dark magic. On the island, the low magic witch community has created a pastel colored world full of fun shops that help sustain and support the families while providing a sort of daycation for the mainlanders. In attempts to shore up alliances, the Governor of the mainland, arranges a marriage with the daughter of one head witch families. Tana is the betrothed. She is confident she is following this path out of duty and love for her family and way of life, until one day… she learns that things aren’t what they seemed. She discovers family secrets, lies, truths about the islands history and the one to teach her these things also shows her what love that you chose for yourself instead of accept as your fate… can truly be like. What will she do as she learns she is caught between to impossible paths? Something or someone will dies either way…

First of all, this is my first Rachel Griffin book and I will be seeking out more! I love the way she writes, her pacing is perfection, her pages are purposeful and the people are magic themselves. I loved the imagery in this book, I could see the island and the shops come to life in my mind. I loved the angst and the relationships. Although people are odds with one another it’s not for any other reason than standing up for what they believe in. No real villains in this story! The love story is bliss but I will say, this is marketed as young adult, I would not feel comfortable if I had young kids reading this book until they were at least high school jr or sr! It was pretty steamy in some spots. That being said, I don’t usually read spice, so my tolerance level is probably low! Lol…

If you love magical, whimsical and angsty stories, this will be your jam!

Thank you to NetGalley for this ARC! LOVED THIS BOOK!

So much to love about this one! My favorite elements of a Rachel Griffin novel are here in full force - witchy earth magic and gorgeous immersive depictions of the natural world. Can I move to the Witchery immediately? The POV is super close which takes some getting used to for me but I do love how much the reader feels Tana’s struggle and even her anxiety over her decisions. The complex relationship with her mom was very interesting and I adored her relationship with her dad. The love triangle was a bit perfunctory - obviously team Wolfe, the outcome never really felt in question, even though Wolfe also didn’t feel quite as developed as I would have hoped. But it was still an enjoyable ride. Overall, a great story about trusting yourself and choosing what is right for you even when it appears wrong for everyone else.

This was such a great read and an easy 5/5 for me. I flew through this book and could not put it down!

The story centres around a young witch Mortana who is finding her place within her world, which is set on an island where she is surrounded by her fellow witches who perform only low magic to keep the peace with the humans who live on the mainland, one of whom Mortana is supposed to marry. As the story goes on Mortana must decide where she fits in the world and who she can truly trust.

I felt the world building was done so beautifully by the author and just felt seamless within the story and not too heavy at the beginning. The characters were sweet and I genuinely felt like they felt their actual age rather than seeming more mature than their age as I feel is often the case in YA novels.

This is a great YA fantasy romance and I can’t wait for the book to release so I can pick up a physical copy as the cover art is also stunning.

I received this book as an ARC and my review and opinion are my own.