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bigdreamsandwildthings · 8 months

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Rachel Griffin and her witches have my heart 🖤

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themelodyofspring · 11 months

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JOMP Book Photo Challenge

June 12, 2023 - Florals🪻

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bangbangwhoa · 7 months

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books I’ve read in 2023 📖 no. 110

Bring Me Your Midnight by Rachel Griffin

“I watch him, impossibly beautiful in the moonlight. I press my lips to his. He comes alive in darkness, so darkness I become.”

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homerjacksons · 1 month

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narlie-aspec · 7 months

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"I didn’t want to come tonight. So much noise, so many people, and the breathtaking loneliness of being alone in a crowded room."

- The Nature of Witches, Rachel Griffin

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bookcoversonly · 18 days

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Title: The Nature of Witches | Author: Rachel Griffin | Publisher: Sourcebooks Fire (2021)

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andreai04 · 7 months

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“Winter is the truest of the seasons. It’s what remains after everything else is stripped away… And if you can love the earth, understand it when all the beauty is gone and see it for what it is, that’s magic.”

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bookaddict24-7 · 9 months

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New Young Adult Releases! (August 1st, 2023)

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Have I missed any new Young Adult releases? Have you added any of these books to your TBR? Let me know!

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New Standalones/First in a Series:

I'll Tell You No Lies by Amanda McCrina

The Boy You Always Wanted by Michelle Quach

Bring Me Your Midnight by Rachel Griffin

The Narrow by Kate Alice Marshall

A Little Like Waking by Adam Rex

Zhara by S. Jae-Jones

Damned If You Do by Alex Brown

True True by Don P. Hooper

They Fade Away by Alex Armoredes

The Bewitching Hour by Ashley Poston

Omen of Ice by Jus Accardo

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Happy reading!

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theblurbwitchproject · 3 months

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The Nature of Magic by Rachel Griffin

Published: June 1, 2021 Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc

The Author

Rachel Griffin writes young adult novels inspired by the magic of the world around her. 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. The Nature of Witches and her subsequent novel Wild is the Witch were both New York Times bestsellers.

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The Story

For centuries, witches have maintained the climate, their power from the sun peaking in the season of their birth. But now their control is faltering as the atmosphere becomes more erratic. All hope lies with Clara, an Everwitch whose rare magic is tied to every season. Clara wants nothing to do with her power. It's wild and volatile, and the price of her magic- losing the ones she loves- is too high, despite the need to help control the increasingly dangerous weather. Over the course of the novel, Clara must choose between her power and her happiness, her duty and the people she cares for, before the changing climate thrusts the world into chaos.

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The Vibe: witch academia, boarding school, weather magic, wheel of the year, climate change, plant magic, slowburn romance, LGBTQ+ representation

The Style: first person, standalone, easy-going prose, young adult

Tringger Warnings: climate change, severe weather scenes, wildfires, character death, sex, negligent adult in position of power

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The Review

The Nature of Magic by Rachel Griffin is described on Goodreads as Practical Magic meets Twister, is anyone really surprised I gave it a try? The story scratched a lot of itches for me; I’m a big fan of nature magic, and have been a Climate Action advocate in my personal and professional life… and as always, I’m trying to find the next Practical Magic (my absolute favourite witch-focused series by far). While The Nature of Magic is very much a YA novel, it contains some very creative and original magical lore that makes it a worthwhile read if you like witchy stories as much as I do.

Our protagonist is Clara, a 17-year-old student of the Eastern School of Solar Magic, an institution that teaches its students to use their nature magic to combat climate change and protect the non-magical inhabitants of the world, otherwise known as Shaders, from ecological disaster. In this world, witches are born on either a solstice or an equinox and their magic is strongest in the season of their birth. There are Spring witches, Summer witches, Autumn and Winter witches. Clara’s magic is somehow tied to all four seasons, making her an Everwitch; an extremely rare trait in which her magic morphs with the seasons making her powerful year-round. Clara’s teachers haven’t seen an Everwitch in their generation, in fact she is the first to be born in over 100 years and finds her powers isolating and overwhelming. The seasonally-focused nature of the magic was, for me, the most enjoyable aspect of the story; it really demonstrated a love of the different spokes of the Wheel of the Year and the beauty to be found within each.

"Winter is the truest of the seasons. It’s what remains after everything else is stripped away. The leaves fall. The colors fade. The branches get brittle. And if you can love the earth, understand it when all the beauty is gone and see it for what it is, that’s magic."

I love the way Griffin describes the magic in this story, it feels very natural and tied both to the character’s bodies and the world around them. While Clara’s magic is “special” in the only way a YA protagonist’s skills could be, I actually preferred how the regular seasonal witches magic was written: Springs are calm and project this vibe outwards, Summer’s magic is “a constant rush, strong and powerful,” Autumn’s magic “builds on an undercurrent of thankfulness and sorrow”, and Winters are very straightforward- “what you see is what you get” with them. Another interesting concept that Griffin developed was that witches gain their power from the sun, and can lose their magic permanently by depletion through severe overuse, or being in the path of totality during a solar eclipse. The novel utilises depletion by overuse to demonstrate the increasingly fragile global climate, as witches worldwide find it more and more difficult to manage the Earth’s severe weather and begin losing their magic and their lives as a result. Meanwhile, Clara has a more personal struggle as she grapples with the idea of stripping herself of her magic intentionally during an upcoming solar eclipse.

Typical of any YA protagonist, Clara is absolutely swimming in tropes. She is singled out as The Chosen One from chapter one, being the only known Everwitch and thus The Only Hope in managing the worsening climate crisis by harnessing the magic of every season. She’s Not Like Everyone Else. Her magic is tied to her emotions, and seeks out those closest to her, resulting in the deaths of numerous loved ones including her parents and more recently, her girlfriend Nikki. Clara struggles with the responsibility forced upon her; her powers are overwhelming and she lashes out at anyone who forces her to use them (which is fair, as only one adult in the story seems to have any sense or consideration for her trauma at all). This all comes to a head when Sang Park, a Korean AP Botany student, is brought in to help train her. And he’s super cute.

"We’ve tried to adapt and handle the shifting atmosphere on our own, but we can’t keep up; it’s as if we’re blowing our candles when the whole house is on fire."

What would a YA novel be without a romance subplot? Thankfully, Sang is a lovely counterbalance to Clara’s sometimes overwrought teen angst, bringing his Spring magic and plant-whispering skills to the school and, with some difficulty, into Clara’s life. He is initially brought in to train Clara in the use of her magic, however these lessons tend to blend together in a “one step forward, two steps back” series of events which slow the pace of the book somewhat. Later on, there are some lovely scenes of communication between the two through the plants he grows (a kind of melancholy Floriography that I found lovely.)

As I mentioned earlier, the pacing of the book could have been improved with a shortening of some sequences, but overall, I really enjoyed the story. Some readers may think the climate change message a little too on the nose, “-no one wants to hear they’re part of the problem- that they are the problem now”, but I think a message like this needs to be on the nose at this point.

Finally, before I wrap up, I want to give a shoutout to a few additional points that I enjoyed: Clara is a good example of bisexual representation (yay!), Nox the cat is super cute (what would a witchy story be without a cranky black kitty?), and the excerpts from the ficticious book A Season For Everything which open each chapter are a wonderful world-building choice.

"I’ve had moments of despair and deep resentment. But then I stand outside and touch the earth, feel the magic in my fingertips, and understand that this is how it’s meant to be. The sun and stars conspired for me, and I am filled with gratitude."

I asked Rachel Griffin whether she'd ever return to the universe, to which she replied, "I'd never say never, but I don't have any plans to return to that world at the moment. I would have to come up with the right idea, but if I did, I wouldn't be opposed to it!" I would consider this a standalone for now, but I'm keeping my fingers crossed that Griffin returns to this story sometime in the future, as there is plenty of potential for a deeper exploration of the magical lore she has created.

Rating: 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑

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ash-and-books · 8 months

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Rating: 5/5

Book Blurb: 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.

Review:

Forbidden magic, a mysterious boy, family secrets, and a love that would crash into her life like the waves that she dives into. Mortana Fairchild is a witch, she lives on an island that is home to both witches and mainlanders who think witches are a threat and in order to maintain the alliance her marriage to the governor's son, Landon, will secure the alliance between witches and mainlanders alike. Tana's life has been planned all along and she's been raised to put duty and her coven before her own happiness... yet on a mysterious night she meets a strange handsome witch named Wolfe who will shake her foundations and beliefs in everything she was raised to, starting with the fact that he practices high tide magic, or what she was lead to believe was dark magic and that the deadly flowers her mother told her about is actually note deadly at all. Tana and Wolfe have a connection despite the fact that they are from opposing covens, they find themselves constantly drawn back to each other, but the more time they spend together the more Tana is beginning to realize that her coven's secrets and her own family's secrets might not be worth sacrificing everything, particularly her own happiness because Wolfe makes her want to be selfish for the first time in her life. Yet Wolfe has his own motives, and when his secret gets out, it might destroy the blossoming relationship between him and her. Can Tana decide what path to follow: her duty or her heart? Will she marry the governor's son or the boy who has crashed into her life? This was such a captivating and wonderful story. I had the pleasure of meeting Rachel and hearing her talk about how she wrote Tana and Wolfe's love story to be a bit like Morticia and Gomez, completely fits. I adored this boo so much, it just captures you and sweeps you along and you feel yourself entranced until the very end. It's a lush atmosphere, a gorgeous love story, and just so beautiful!

*Thank you Netgalley and SOURCEBOOKS Fire, Sourcebooks Fire for sending me an arc in exchange for an honest review*

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bigdreamsandwildthings · 8 months

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A good book and coffee. My favourite Sunday morning ritual 📖☕️

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jessread-s · 9 months

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Thanks to Sourcebooks Fire and Rachel Griffin for providing me with an ARC in exchange for an honest review

✩🌊🖤Review:

I never wanted this book to end!

“Bring Me Your Midnight” follows Tana Fairchild, a witch fated to marry Landon, the son of the governor on the mainland, to secure an alliance between their two peoples. But when Tana misses a ritual that will release her pent up magic into the ocean, she turns to Wolfe Hawthorne, a witch that practices dark magic, for help. Rather than aid her in performing the ritual that has made the sea more violent, he teaches her his forbidden magic—a magic that makes that makes her feel more alive and question whether she should follow her heart or fulfill her duty to her people.

What I love most about this book is the atmosphere Griffin creates. Her descriptive prose immerses the reader in the Witchery’s close knit, island community and beautifully captures Tana’s bond to the sea, a bond that was forged the moment Tana first swam in the ocean and left with salt clinging to her skin. I enjoyed the way Griffin personified the ocean and made it Tana’s safe place.

I also like how the ocean is inherently connected to the two opposing coven’s magic—low tide magic and high tide magic. As Griffin puts it, low tide magic adds to what already exists with the caveat of leaving a buildup of of unused power while high tide magic has no limits but requires balance. I appreciate how Griffin doesn’t overwhelm the reader with her magic system in her explanation of it while still managing to make it complex.

Tana and Wolfe’s forbidden love story swept me off my feet! Their secret meetings at midnight on the beach, fervent kisses, and loving embraces are absolutely magical. I could not get enough of their chemistry and their slow development from enemies trying to ignore their attraction to each other to lovers unable to resist giving in to their hearts.

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