Midnight Beauties is set in Paris and follows Anouk as plagues and time loops are beginning to destroy London and she and the rest of the beasties try and figure out a way to stop it.

I found this book incredibly frustrating. So things I didn't like:
- There's no high stakes. Sure, verbally the stakes are really high but I never actually felt like they were. The plagues don't seem real, I never fear for Anouk, nor is there ever any doubt the other beasties will be turned back into humans.
- The romance. The romance in this book is the reason I hate YA romance. Anouk is in love with her brother figure (already weird), and then the antagonist from the first book becomes the 3rd corner of a love triangle? What? He murdered her allies and turned her friends back into animals with little chance of them returning! Yet he kisses her and she's just kind of like "uh you know I don't like you right?". It's a badly done enemies-to-lovers situation.
- Which leads me to my next issue: the final twists. There were a couple of twists that felt like they were just for the sake of throwing off the readers, because one could have been easily avoided and the other destroyed all of the character development of another character and just seemed to come out of nowhere.

Things I did like:
- It was a very engaging read, I was always eager to keep reading to find out what was going to happen.
- The author is very good at creating hooks for the next book. I'm really curious to see what Cricket gets up to in the next one
- Petra getting a bigger part in this book. I enjoyed seeing more of the former witch's boy and hope she plays an even larger role in the next book

I'm going to read the sequel but I'll complain the whole time.