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Sidney’s and Asher’s parents are best friends from college and have rented cottages next door to each other at a lake in Michigan for five years. The two teens have spent most of those years hating each other and trying to out-prank the other. The two should have clicked, and actually seemed to get along the first summer when they were 13, but something went wrong.
This summer, they’re both headed off to college. Sidney is training to try to beat her mother’s swimming record. Asher is a star swimmer as well.
Their time together starts off as usual, with each wondering what prank the other will pull and when. But then their gags get out of hand and their landlord kicks both families out of the rental houses. Luckily, their parents manage to find a place for them to stay the rest of the summer. They know they need to rein in their feud so they don’t ruin the whole summer. But Sidney is surprised when she gets a note from Asher saying “meet me at midnight” on the dock. Asher makes her a proposition: rather than causing more problems by tricking each other, they should join forces and get back at the landlord who was so mean.
Having a truce is a weird new feeling for both of them, but they slowly become friendly with each other as they do their planning. And friendship isn’t the only change they’re seeing: sparks are flying between them. But is it possible neither of these novelties is actually new?
Meet Me at Midnight is a fun teen romance. It’s a bit formulaic and sometimes predictable, but then it isn’t entirely so in the last part. It has heart, and the two characters are hard not to root for. It’s definitely a satisfying beach or summer read.
Rated: Moderate. Profanity includes about 20 instances of moderate profanity, about 5 uses of mild language, and about 10 uses of the name of Deity in vain. Sexual content includes a number of makeout scenes, one that includes the characters lifting or moving clothes and touching each other (but no detail past that), and the two teens sleeping several times in the same bed together.
