Suddenly, her father- her idol, her rock - is gone, and she's exiled to Orange, CA to live with a grandmother she didn't know she had and a mother she barely recognizes as the days go on. However, everything changes in the blink of an eye. She's just worried about coming up with the next great lyric. She doesn't feel the need to ask for more, to work for more. She works at a coffee shop, has a crush on her guy best friend, and loves the midnight jam sessions her and her father have. When the book first begins, Susannah is living a relatively normal life. Combing lyrical writing, a drool-worthy setting, and a thoughtful coming-of-age, The Midnights is a standout YA debut, perfect for fans of Sarah Dessen's This Lullaby. The Midnights is not just good but great. I figured if she'd loved it I'd probably love it as well, and as it turns out, I was one hundred percent correct (thankfully!). I've been dying to read The Midnights ever since I saw Rachel Lynn Solomon, author of the AMAZING You'll Miss Me When I'm Gone, raving about it on Goodreads. I received a copy of the book from HarperTeen via Edelwiess in exchange for an honest review. Hopefully it will work out for you, but I think this was a case where the book just isn't for me. So The Midnights was a super unfortunate miss for me, but I’m sure A LOT of people will really love it and connect with it, so it’s worth a shot if you’re in the mood for a contemporary with a little more depth. I didn’t feel Susannah’s connection to the music. Even the music element, which I usually love in story fell flat here. There was moments when the narration read like a voiceover looking back at what happened, but it was used infrequently and pulled me out of the story. There was also this reflective quality to the writing, that while worked for the story, felt out of place. This was really detrimental because Susannah’s relationship with her dad is incredibly important to the story and it’s progression, but I just didn’t care about it. Because of that I never bought any of the relationships.
I found the pacing in the beginning to be really disjointed and rushed.
I can’t remember the last book that I was completely apathetic towards. I didn’t connect to it at all - not the characters, not the relationships, not the plot. I was looking for this moving story of grief and family and Susannah finding herself, but this book made me feel absolutely nothing. I wanted to love this so much and I just didn’t and that makes me really sad. “You have to shake your notions of good and bad, and create outside of judgement.
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