Review: The Midnight Spell by Rhiannon Frater and Kody Boye

Adam and Christy have been best friends since kindergarten. Always the perpetual outsiders in their small town in Texas, they’ve always had to deal with nasty comments from their classmates. Adam’s slight build, sweet-nature, and wry sense of humor have marked him as the gay kid in school, while Christy’s long hair, hippy parents, and mesmerizing amber eyes have her tagged as a witch.

On both counts the bullies are right.

Their junior year in high school seems destined to be the same old same old until Christy decides to cast a love spell for Adam at the midnight hour. After nothing seems to happen, Adam is convinced he will spend the rest of his high school years without someone special. That is until the next day when an alluring and mysterious new boy enrolls at school and sets hearts a flutter, including Adam’s.

Meanwhile, Christy’s mad crush on the handsome jock, Ian, seems to be going nowhere fast and she’s determined to change her luck and her destiny. Struggling to capture the heart of Ian while trying to come into her full witch powers are tough enough, but when a great evil arrives in town that threatens everything they hold dear, she realizes that finding a boyfriend is the least of her and Adam’s worries.

Soon Adam, Christy, their potential love interests, and their good friends Drifter and Olivia, will have to battle a force of darkness that has killed before in their town and will again.

The Midnight Spell was really cute! It’s all about friendship and magic! There’s also some romance and danger! And high school horrors! I quite enjoyed it. Christy is a witch, not that her BFF Adam believes her. He humors her anyway as she casts a spell to help him meet his true love, since it’s hard dating when you’re the only gay male in a tiny town. The very next morning, there’s a new guy at school who is super hot and possibly has his eye on Adam. But Mark isn’t what he seems.

The Midnight Spell is just a lot of fun! How can it not be when there’s a teenage witch going through what is essentially magical puberty!? Her spells cause some hiccups, and then there’s the evil creatures of the night who start showing up. Christy also has a very helpful cat named Callie, and she’s constantly stalked by her mom’s nosy broom! Cute stuff. There’s also a lot of humor sprinkled throughout, so the story never got dark even when bad things were happening.

What I also really liked about The Midnight Spell was the parents! Yes, there are present adult figures in this YA book! Christy’s parents are, of course, witches so they’re trying to help her with her growing powers. Her dad looks like Santa and her mom is a kind of eccentric artist type, both of which are constantly embarrassing her in front of her friends and crush. Adam’s mom is a self-proclaimed shoe whore, and is like a bipolar pixie! She’s very protective of her son.

The Midnight Spell is not without its faults though. For starters, it’s full of cliches, but I think they work for the most part given the light nature of the story. Christy and Adam are outcasts and bullied by a group of typical mean girls, who really seemed to serve no other purpose than to be mean to them. Christy’s parents are from a parallel world, so of course they’re kind of weird when trying to appear human. Adam’s new boyfriend Mark is something more than just a human boy, which is fairly obvious from the beginning. But at least what he is, and how he got that way, wasn’t predictable, so that’s a plus.

In the end, I really liked The Midnight Spell. The characters are all great, and I loved the magic. The plot wasn’t the most original, but it was fun.

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