Bring Me Your Midnight by Rachel Griffin
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Nature of Witches and Wild is the Witch comes a lush romantic fantasy about forbidden love, the choices we make, and the pull between duty and desire.
Tana Fairchild’s fate has never been in question. Her life has been planned out since the moment she was born: she is to marry the governor’s son, Landon, and secure an unprecedented alliance between the witches of her island home and the mainlanders who see her very existence as a threat.
Tana’s coven has appeased those who fear their power for years by releasing most of their magic into the ocean during the full moon. But when Tana misses the midnight ritual—a fatal mistake—there is no one she can turn to for help…until she meets Wolfe.
Wolfe claims he is from a coven that practices dark magic, making him one of the only people who can help her. But he refuses to let Tana’s power rush into the sea, and instead teaches her his forbidden magic. A magic that makes her feel powerful. Alive.
As the sea grows more violent, her coven loses control of the currents, a danger that could destroy the alliance as well as her island. Tana will have to choose between love and duty, between loyalty to her people and loyalty to her heart. Marrying Landon would secure peace for her coven but losing Wolfe and his wild magic could cost her everything else.
This one was a really good YA fantasy read with witches, forbidden
romance and some tension but I think I preferred the author's other book
- Wild Is The Witch over this one.
Tana Fairchild has always known that her life has been planned out for
her. As the daughter of the coven leader, she's meant to marry the son
of the governor of the mainland in order to establish an alliance
between them and their island of witches and to bring security. But that
doesn't stop her from yearning for more and for something that she could
choose for herself.
Everything changes one night when she misses a monthly ritual and meets
Wolfe, a member of the old coven that practices what her coven considers
as dark magic. And he's the only person who can help her now. And as he
begins to teach her this magic that feels so right for her, she
discovers that what she's been led to believe her whole life might be
wrong. And she might have to make a choice soon.
Rachel's writing was amazing as usual in this one and I really loved the
magical and cozy vibes with excellent characters. What took it down a
notch perhaps was the insta love 🤔 I usually don't mind this as long as
their relationship develops later but here I felt that they didn't get
to know each other as well as we were made to think. The forbidden
romance did add a touch of enjoyment to this though. I ended up liking
most of the characters and how different they were from each other - but
noone was completely bad in a sense. They just had their own beliefs and
things that they were willing to sacrifice for. I was actually more
curious about the world building and I felt like that could have been
explored too, but I still enjoyed reading this one!❣️✨
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*I was provided with an ARC via Netgalley in exchange for an honest
review*
Rachel Griffin writes young adult novels inspired by the magic of the world around her. She is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of Bring Me Your Midnight, The Nature of Witches, and Wild is the Witch.
Born and raised in the Pacific Northwest, Rachel has a deep love of nature, from the mountains to the ocean and all the towering evergreens in between. She adores moody skies and thunderstorms, and hopes more vampires settle down in her beloved state of Washington.
On her path to writing novels, Rachel graduated from Seattle University with a Bachelor of Science in diagnostic ultrasound. She worked in healthcare for five years and taught ultrasound at her alma mater before making the switch to a small startup. She now writes full-time from her home in the Seattle area.
When she isn’t writing, you can find her wandering the PNW, reading by the fire, or drinking copious amounts of coffee and tea. She lives with her husband, small dog, and growing collection of houseplants.
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