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Blog Tour: Meet Me at Midnight by Jessica Pennington (Excerpt + Giveaway!)

Posted April 7, 2020 by Kaity in Book Tours, Excerpt, Giveaways / 0 Comments

Blog Tour: Meet Me at Midnight by Jessica Pennington (Excerpt + Giveaway!)

Happy Tuesday and welcome to my stop on the Meet Me at Midnight blog tour!!  Read on for an excerpt, plus find out more about the book and author, follow along with the rest of the tour and enter a giveaway for a print copy of Meet Me at Midnight!!

Blog Tour: Meet Me at Midnight by Jessica Pennington (Excerpt + Giveaway!)Meet Me at Midnight by Jessica Pennington
Published on April 7, 2020 by Tor Teen
Genres: YA, Contemporary, Romance
Pages: 336
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They have a love-hate relationship with summer.
Sidney and Asher should have clicked. Two star swimmers forced to spend their summers on a lake together sounds like the perfect match. But it’s the same every year—in between cookouts and boat rides and family-imposed bonfires, Sidney and Asher spend the dog days of summer finding the ultimate ways to prank each other. And now, after their senior year, they’re determined to make it the most epic summer yet.
But their plans are thrown in sudden jeopardy when their feud causes their families to be kicked out of their beloved lake houses. Once in their new accommodations, Sidney expects the prank war to continue as usual. But then she gets a note—Meet me at midnight. And Asher has a proposition for her: join forces for one last summer of epic pranks, against a shared enemy—the woman who kicked them out.
Their truce should make things simpler, but six years of tormenting one another isn’t so easy to ignore. Kind of like the undeniable attraction growing between them.

 “Jordan and I broke up.” His voice matches mine, friendly and light. We’re maybe thirty feet from where our paths will merge into one, and I squeeze the towel rolled tight under my arm. My pulse speeds up, adrenaline pooling in my veins as we partake in the world’s slowest two-person sprint. We’re just a couple of pumping arms short of looking like old people powering through the mall in their bright-white sneakers. My flip- flops slap against the stone. 

“Oh, did you?” My voice drips with mock innocence. Asher and Jordan broke up about a month ago. I overheard my mom talking to his in one of their weekly phone calls leading up to our joint family vacation. Poor baby, such a sweet girl, blah blah blah. 

“Stalking me?” he says, his voice taking a teasing edge. 

It sounds a little stalkerish that I know about Jordan. But knowledge is power, and I can’t help that my mom insists on updating me about Asher every time she talks to Sylvie. As if I didn’t have the means to contact Asher a million different ways, if I wanted to. As if we’re friends and I need to know what he’s doing the ten months out of the year I’m not being subjected to his presence. “You wish.” I roll my eyes, even though he can’t see them. “You must have been distraught, if your mom had to call mine to talk about it.” 

“Devastated,” he says dramatically, not sounding it at all. 

“Lucky girl,” I say.

“How’s . . . oh, what’s his name . . . ?” In my periphery I can 

see his hand slap against his thigh like he’s trying to recall some lost bit of information. We try so hard, the two of us. We smile and tease and torture—the kind of animals that like to play with their food before they kill it. 

I cringe, knowing what’s coming next. I shouldn’t have pushed him on Jordan, I should have just left it alone. But that smug face of his. I set myself up for this. 

“Taylor . . . ? David . . . ? Evan . . . ?” There’s a long pause and I inwardly cringe. “Or was it all of them?” 

I take in a deep breath and let it out. My face doesn’t change, my eyes don’t move. They’re focused on the deck looming be- low us, up ahead—the end goal. 

His voice is casual. “None of them stuck, huh?”

“Now who’s stalking?”

“I can’t help myself. Apparently your love life is better than an episode of The Bachelor. And you have a chatty mom, too.”

I snicker. “You watch The Bachelor?” We’ve reached the spot at the crest of the hill where our paths converge and lead down into a single walkway of cement stairs. I narrow my eyes as we both squeeze onto them. They’re barely wider than one person, but we walk side by side, as fast as two people possibly can without running or tripping or looking like we’re purposefully racing. And we are racing. 

Jessica Pennington is no stranger to the combination of love and drama. She’s a wedding planner, after all. A writer since the age of ten—when she sought publication for her poem about a tree—Jessica likes the challenge of finding the humor in a sad situation or highlighting the awkwardness in a romantic one. She lives in a Michigan beach town suspiciously similar to the one in her novel, with her husband Josh and their son, Rory. Love Songs & Other Lies is her debut novel.

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Are you adding this book to your #TBR? It’s been on mine for months, and I’m so excited to read it! Let me know if you’re adding it in the comments and have a splendiferous day!

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