Amelie has always been different.

Most high school students find life challenging, but 17-year old Amelie has a lot more to contend with than typical teenage angst. Ever since she turned 11, others have been irresistibly drawn to her—with tragic consequences. Her only escape is at night when she flies to different times and places through her “dreams”. Her life begins to change when, on one of her flights, she meets Clovis, an alluring and mysterious young man who hides a secret.

As Amelie finds herself increasingly drawn to him, she learns his story, how it intertwines with her own and finally discovers how to live her life in the real world. Until her own secrets are revealed to the wrong people and that world turns upside down.

Bright Midnights is the second in the Limerent Series and continues in the thought-provoking and beautiful style of the first as it considers different dimensions, different ways of looking at the world, and the transcendental power of love.

My Review

I read and loved Fanning Fireflies so it made sense that I read Bright Midnights as well, even though YA/fantasy is not my usual genre. But the author’s writing is beautiful and the characters are well written. As an aside, I didn’t realise that Bright Midnights came before Fanning Fireflies, though they are not really connected apart from Dante and Kara, who feature a lot more later.

The main character, Amelie, is delightful, if naive and at times rather selfish, but that’s teenagers for you! As for Clovis, the jury is still out. I didn’t trust him and still don’t. Amelie has powers that she struggles to control. Her family are an ignorant bunch, so fail to understand her. And her school friends are all horrible, apart from Hudson.

As we progress through the book, we find out more about Amelie’s powers, including her ability to fly in her dreams (which is how she meets Clovis), and how it affects her when she gets back. At school, she is considered an outsider, a bit weird – if only they knew how weird – and one of her teachers has a very unhealthy obsession with her, which makes her life even more difficult.

I have to read it from an objective point of view as I can’t identify with the subject matter or the characters, but I can still appreciate what a great book it is for young adults. And of course the author writes with confidence and authority. I’m really looking forward to reading more of Amelie’s adventures in Ghosting Academy.

Many thanks to @LiterallyPR for inviting me me to be part of the #BrightMidnights blog tour.

About the Author

Lexy Delorme was born in San Diego, California. After graduating from the University of North Carolina School of law, various internships and years working in risk, tax, family, and international law, she now classifies herself as a recovering attorney. With a father who served in the US Military, Lexy had a wandering lifestyle from her earliest days and in her time has been a pop musician, a science geek and a writer for magazines like Bonjour Paris and Playtimes. Throughout all of her different careers, her love of fiction has been a mainstay.

Within this eclectic life, she was also one of the first employees at 23andMe, a genomics and biotechnology company based in Mountain View, California and that experience influenced the genetic aspects of her Limerent Series, of which Caio is the first book.

For as long as she can remember she’s had characters in her head. As a child, these were the friends she wished to have. As a young woman, the lovers she wanted to find or the people she wanted to become. Writing fiction novels allows her the chance to give these characters a background, a story and a voice.

Having lived in in three continents, none US states, and 21 cities around the world, including London and Hong Kong, Lexy now lives in Paris with her French husband and two very cool sons. She is currently working on the next books in the Limerent Series.

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