Genre 📚: YA Contemporary Fantasy, Romance
Tropes 💁♀️: Shared dreams, Memory erasures, Second chance romance
Rep ✔️: BIPOC side characters
CW ⚠️: Loss of a loved one, medical trauma, grief
Rating ⭐️: 4.5/5
The way I devoured this book… Mm mm mmmm. 🤌🤌 Brianna Bourne’s love stories are straight-up addictive, like popcorn. She drops us into these unique, intriguing worlds, and I never want to leave. In Meet Me at Midnight, the FMC Aria is inexplicably dropped into a dream world every night at midnight — sometimes it’s the beach, sometimes it’s Paris, and all the time she’s with this seemingly perfect boy named Strat. And with the way her real life is going, she’d much rather stay in these dreams with him.
Only, Strat isn’t part of her imagination. He’s real, and they’re really exploring these dreams together. They figure out that they knew each other in the past, that they were IN LOVE in the past. But they took advantage of erasure clinics and completely erased each other from their minds — like, what?? I already liked the theme with the midnights, but the memory erasures truly took the story to the next level. The couple then dug into their past, piecing resurfacing memories together, while falling in love all over again.
Aria and Strat were the epitome of first love. All that burning, white hot emotion that’s just too much to handle. I appreciated that the story showed the dangers of that, the dangers of the illusion of perfection. As a fellow hopeless romantic, I totally related to Aria’s fear of confronting life’s hardships and her need for escapism. Her journey, though painful, was beautiful. In fact, it was beautiful because of the pain, because of her mistakes. Because she worked through all that.
**Much thanks to NetGalley and Delacorte Press for providing an ARC in exchange for an honest review. Meet Me at Midnight will be released on June 30, 2026.
Sara Bechtol 