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alliereed's review against another edition
challenging
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Grief
saradoxical's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
The Midnight Club took me on a ride. I absolutely loved the world-building involved and the fact that it kept me guessing as I read. And I loved contemplating the idea and repercussions of revisiting the past as they do in the book.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Pregnancy
CONTENT WARNING: pregnancyshareorshelve's review
5.0
If you could go back in time and change the past, would you?
That's the premise of Margot Harrison's novel The Midnight Club, which reunites four college friends—Sonia, Byron, Auraleigh, and Paul—25 years after the death of their friend Jennet.
While her death was labeled a suicide, Auraleigh is convinced that someone else was responsible for it. She was there the night Jennet died, but she blacked out and has no memory of what happened. She invites her friends back to their Vermont college town to relive their memories leading up to the night of Jennet’s death to uncover the truth.
By taking a drug called sog, they travel through their memories. Sog lets the young glimpse the future. For the older, it offers the chance to relive past memories. Bridging the gap between memory and reality — between what was and what might have been — is as captivating as it is haunting. But each of the four friends has secrets they don't want to be revealed.
Their shared grief and nostalgia coalesce into an examination of how choices reverberate through a life, both intentionally and unexpectedly. Harrison skillfully captures a universal yearning to comprehend the threads of our actions.
In the Behind the Book excerpt at the end of the novel (something I wish more books had), Harrison confesses that The Midnight Club was decades in the making. A project born from a college idea that required the vantage of a life more lived before she could tell the story in its current form. This maturity infuses the work with philosophical weight, urging us to consider what it means to be, as Harrison phrases it in the story, unstuck in time — looping between past regrets/nostalgia or endlessly seeking the future.
The Midnight Club is a page-turner that also invites thoughtful introspection. I wondered if, given the chance, I would dare alter my past. Like the characters in the book, I found that the answer to that question isn’t as straightforward as it seems.
This story, which I hope will be adapted for the screen, is one of my most memorable reads of the year.
The Midnight Club is a thrilling mystery and a contemplation on life, memory, and the inexorable march of time.
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The Midnight Club by Margot Harrison will be released on September 24, 2024.
That's the premise of Margot Harrison's novel The Midnight Club, which reunites four college friends—Sonia, Byron, Auraleigh, and Paul—25 years after the death of their friend Jennet.
While her death was labeled a suicide, Auraleigh is convinced that someone else was responsible for it. She was there the night Jennet died, but she blacked out and has no memory of what happened. She invites her friends back to their Vermont college town to relive their memories leading up to the night of Jennet’s death to uncover the truth.
By taking a drug called sog, they travel through their memories. Sog lets the young glimpse the future. For the older, it offers the chance to relive past memories. Bridging the gap between memory and reality — between what was and what might have been — is as captivating as it is haunting. But each of the four friends has secrets they don't want to be revealed.
Their shared grief and nostalgia coalesce into an examination of how choices reverberate through a life, both intentionally and unexpectedly. Harrison skillfully captures a universal yearning to comprehend the threads of our actions.
In the Behind the Book excerpt at the end of the novel (something I wish more books had), Harrison confesses that The Midnight Club was decades in the making. A project born from a college idea that required the vantage of a life more lived before she could tell the story in its current form. This maturity infuses the work with philosophical weight, urging us to consider what it means to be, as Harrison phrases it in the story, unstuck in time — looping between past regrets/nostalgia or endlessly seeking the future.
The Midnight Club is a page-turner that also invites thoughtful introspection. I wondered if, given the chance, I would dare alter my past. Like the characters in the book, I found that the answer to that question isn’t as straightforward as it seems.
This story, which I hope will be adapted for the screen, is one of my most memorable reads of the year.
The Midnight Club is a thrilling mystery and a contemplation on life, memory, and the inexorable march of time.
This is a SHARE.
The Midnight Club by Margot Harrison will be released on September 24, 2024.
wendicorinne's review against another edition
5.0
This book is a trip into the past and the future. This book takes you on a journey between 4 friends who want to find answers. During this journey things fall apart but in the end everyone unites and they realize living in the present is more important than finding the answer they’ve all been looking for. MUST READ.
rocilectora's review against another edition
dark
emotional
inspiring
mysterious
sad
tense
medium-paced
4.0
jodinicole2023's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
mysterious
sad
medium-paced
5.0
aphrodite_w's review against another edition
hopeful
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
The ending is a total mind fuck. I absolutely devoured the second half of this book. However the beginning was a little slow paced, predictable & redundant. So it was a little tough to get through until events started to develop more. I really wish we got to see Sonia & Hayworth’s relationship progress further, especially after the end of the story.
vivakresh's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.5
Really enjoyed this sweet, thoughtful, nostalgic YA book! Yes, even though the author markets this as her first adult book, I’d say this is the definition of YA—emotional, full of the energy and anxiety and anticipation and plot twists of youth—with a perspective of the adults in the future who are still young at heart. What have we learned? You can’t change the past. Every moment of your life is real, every day counts. You can’t predict the future. As a college student, I ran a literary magazine, so this cast and setting spoke to my past and filled my memory bank and made me wonder where all my friends ended up twenty five years later! Why the 3.5 stars? The time travel stuff was amusing but felt shallow, in the end—and I think I’m skeptical that adults would behave like such children for such a long time.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Suicide